The Fabulous Melissa Carty

10 Sep 2018 Leave a comment

by TK Lawyer in Fellow Authors Tags: , , , , , , ,

Hi Readers,

I had the recent privilege to interview this amazing author~ Melissa Carty.  Check out my interview with her.

 

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  1. Tell me a bit about one of your favorites that you wrote.

Soul Awakening will always be my first love. One of my main characters is Chance Wright and he was the first character to ever show himself to me. Letting his and Skye’s story grow into a full fledged book was also an opportunity for me to grow personally.

Skye is a girl who has a parent go missing. Everyone thinks he’s dead and her and her mom are coping the best they can. She has to leave her friends behind when she’s made to spend the summer in another country with family she barely knows. After she gets there, family secrets and supernatural beings collide, making this a summer she may not survive.

 

  1. Writing is a difficult endeavor. What makes you continue to write?

In the beginning, my characters wouldn’t shut up. After that, it was my need to finish the story. I also enjoy the problem solving that’s involved in creating worlds and lives. There is something so magical and addictive about making a world all your own.

 

  1. What do you look forward to every day?

Waking up and knowing I have another day to love on the people I love. Having more time to try to get this thing called life right. To tell the stories that play out in my head. Hearing a song that will make me think of a book and/or characters that I wrote. Someone telling me they loved or liked my book. So many things.

 

  1. How do you define success? What makes you successful?

Success for me is doing something you enjoy and it being able to sustain you financially (which is relative to your needs and situation) and/or emotionally.

I’m doing something I truly enjoy and it’s very fulfilling. I realize I’m just starting out, so I may not be the definition of success yet, but every author had to start somewhere.

 

  1. Any tips for a newbie writer?

Try to turn off your inner critic, at least until you’re done with the first draft. You may never finish your book if you give in to it. Also, finding a mentor can be really helpful and reaffirming that you’re on the right track.

 

BIO:

Melissa is a Young Adult writer with a passion for paranormal. She has been drawing and doing all things creative for as long as she can remember. She earned a degree in Graphic Arts and has spent many years as an artist. After falling in love with reading (thanks to two persistent friends), she started writing stories. The magic of creating her own worlds has been both exciting and overwhelming at times, and she couldn’t be happier about it. https://www.facebook.com/MelissaCartyArtistWriter/ or https://www.instagram.com/melissa_carty/

** Her book, Soul Awakening is available on Amazon! **

 

The amazing Patty Perrin

29 Jun 2018 Leave a comment

by TK Lawyer in Fellow Authors Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

Hi Readers,

Check out my Interview with this fabulous Author, Patty Perrin.  Her books will delight you!  Thank you so much, Mrs. Perrin for joining me today.

1. Tell me a bit about one of your favorites that you wrote.

Terra’s Call is the first of a four-book Teen/YA Sci-fi series, and my first attempt at writing fiction. I learned so much as I wrote it, rewrote it, honed it, and was finally satisfied with it. It’s the story of four genetically enhanced teens who discover that they are the ones mentioned in an ancient Cherokee prophecy who would be tasked with saving the world from destroying itself. Except for the twins, Sky and Pax who grew up together, the teens meet for the first time in their senior year. They learn that truth is bigger than they thought, that they are capable of much more than they imagined, and that differences among the inhabitants of Terra (our Earth) don’t necessarily make them enemies – or friends.

I love writing for Young Adults and Teens because they have dreams and imagination, and if I can encourage their sense of wonder and give them something positive, uplifting, mysterious, adventurous, and with a touch of romance, then I’m satisfied.

2. Writing is a difficult endeavor. What makes you continue to write?

Before I finished the series, I couldn’t let my characters leave their task unfinished. The research alone was so much fun, thanks to my personal research assistant Google. I had no idea there are so many mysteries right here on our planet, or that quantum physics may hold answers to questions we don’t know how to ask yet.

Now that the series is written, I continue to have visions, ideas that keep coming, and the strong feeling that the Creator has partnered with me in writing. How could I not keep writing?

3. What do you look forward to every day?

Waking up, spending time with the Lord, and starting on my task list for the day. I tend to write in spurts, most notably the month of November, or National Novel Writing Month (Nanowrimo). I’ve started each of my fiction books with the 50,000 word challenge of that month. I finish it over the next few months, and then take a break to try to learn some marketing and get some of my own reading done.

4. How do you define success? What makes you successful?

When you’ve influenced the life of someone else for the better, that is success. When a young fan tells me I’m her favorite author, and she isn’t related to me – that is success. When my grandchildren read my books, write reviews and book reports on them… You get the picture. Success is having people read and enjoy the books I write. I wouldn’t discount being a best-selling author or earning a decent income from book sales, but I’m already successful

5. Any tips for a newbie writer?

Write! The more you write, the better you’ll get at it. Learn all you can about the craft of writing. Take classes, learn grammar and the difference between active and passive verbs, phrases and scenes. Learn about writing descriptions through action and dialogue. Once you’ve written something you’re excited about, get a lot of feedback, from Beta readers, friends, and editors, and don’t take criticism personally. View it as a learning experience, and don’t give up. You’re not too young to write well, and you’re not too old. Enjoy the journey.

** The photo with scripture is one that lifts me up when I am down. **

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Terra’s Call available on Amazon!

https://www.amazon.com/Terras-Call-TetraSphere-Book-One-…/…/

Check out the author’s website: www.ptlperrin.org

 

 

 

 

Temptation is Free on Amazon!

14 Jul 2017 Leave a comment

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This book is Free for a limited time, readers.  Grab your copy while you can!

 

** Free for Kindle Unlimited **

10 Jul 2017 Leave a comment

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Eyes Open by T. Valis…

 Free for Kindle Unlimited

Kira’s curiosity is about to set off a chain of events that no one could have predicted. Her 9 to 5, boring existence is about to be irrevocably shattered by one man. Carter Brams.

The mysterious and dark Carter Brams walked into her life and walked off with her heart. As Kira’s world shifts around her she reaches out to Carter for help.

Once your eyes have been opened you will never see the world the same way again. Once Carter Brams has Kira in his arms, will she ever view things from the same angle again?

Buy Links:
Amazon UK – http://amzn.to/2bwrKvg
Amazon US – http://amzn.to/2bzMukw

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Fifty Frogs Available Now on Amazon

02 Jul 2017 Leave a comment

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Vivian is sick of dating. Sick of the way guys treat her, sick of living and crying by when and if they call . . . she’s just done.

When her aunt reminds her that a girl has to kiss a lot of frogs before she finds her prince–Aunt Gail says that number is fifty–Vivian decides she’s taking control of her dating life: she’s going to go on a series of first dates only, and each one must end in a kiss. She begins chronicling each date–the good, the bad and the downright unbelievable–with a plan to turn the stories into an in-depth magazine series about the realities of dating in the twenty-first century.

Everything’s going along according to plan until Vivian hits a bump in her road with Frog Number Five, who doesn’t seem to understand his role in this deal. And despite Vivian’s determination to make it all the way to the big five-oh, when fate keeps throwing this same man across her path, she begins to wonder if maybe it’s time to ditch the plan . . . and kiss just one more frog.

 

 

Books2Read Link: https://books2read.com/FiftyFrogs

 

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Fifty-Frogs-MeetCute-Tawdra-Kandle-ebook/dp/B0719VZVTS/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

 

iBooks: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/fifty-frogs/id1229734514?mt=11

 

Nook: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/fifty-frogs-tawdra-kandle/1126475363?ean=2940157169411

 

Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/fifty-frogs

 

Google: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Tawdra_Kandle_Fifty_Frogs?id=SqYlDwAAQBAJ&hl=en

 

 

Author Bio: Tawdra Kandle writes romance, in just about all its forms. She loves unlikely pairings, strong women, sexy guys, hot love scenes and just enough conflict to make it interesting. Her books include young adult and new adult paranormal romance, new adult and adult contemporary romance and adult paramystery romance. She lives in central Florida with a husband, kids, sweet pup and too many cats. And yeah, she rocks purple hair.

 

HASHTAGS: #FiftyFrogs #KissAFrog #IKissedAFrog

Social media tags: Tawdra Kandle (Facebook) @tawdra (Twitter and Instagram)

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Amazing book debuts tomorrow!

19 Jul 2016 Leave a comment

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** Check out this Amazing book from one of my friends. I’m so excited for her. It debuts tomorrow!

~Release Info: Eyes Open. Book 1 of the Highland Hunters Series by Tessa Valis ~

“Some things go hump in the night.”
Synopsis:
Kira’s curiosity is about to set off a chain of events that no one could have predicted. Her 9 to 5, boring existence is about to be irrevocably shattered by one man. Carter Brams.

The mysterious and dark Carter Brams walked into her life and walked off with her heart. As Kira’s world shifts around her she reaches out to Carter for help.

Once your eyes have been opened you will never see the world the same way again. Once Carter Brams has Kira in his arms, will she ever view things from the same angle again?

Buy Links:

Amazon UK – http://amzn.to/29CgvzA
Amazon US – http://amzn.to/29vQGN8
Amazon CA – https://goo.gl/AHmZyy

Author links:

FB: https://www.facebook.com/TValisAuthor?fref=ts
FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1172438982820141/
Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/…/B01I46…/ref=dp_byline_sr_ebooks_1…

Carter Teaser- T Valis

Friday Naughtiness

24 Jun 2016 1 Comment

by TK Lawyer in Books, Fellow Authors Tags: , ,

Posting for a friend.  Like BDSM and Kidnapping?  Her latest book looks Naughty~

Title of book: Dark Captive

 

Author: Jennifer Denys

 

Publisher: Luminosity Publishing

 

Genre: Contemporary, Forced Seduction, BDSM, Kidnapping

 

Type: Short story (10,500 words)

 

Sexual orientation: MF

 

Blurb:

 

Laura has been kidnapped. She is bound, gagged and cannot see, and taken to a strange building. All her other senses, smell, taste, touch and hearing, come into play in determining where she is and who has taken her.

Her captor, Todd, is a Dominant, who relishes his role. And Laura is special. He loves having submissives who challenge him and punishes Laura for trying to escape and cares for her when she stumbles—unable to see where she is going—in equal measures.

As the evening progresses, Todd keeps her off balance giving her out-of-this-world experiences, always making sure she climaxes. On the one hand, he caresses her and the next he slaps her. Being into BDSM, Laura finds it very arousing, but that goes against everything her head is telling her. She shouldn’t enjoy it—should she?

 

What’s hot?: Sex in a shower tied to the showerhead.

 

Buy links:

 

Amazon.com

Amazon.co.uk

Luminosity Publishing

All Romance ebooks

 

 Dark Captive- J. Denys

 

 

 

Excerpt:

 

As they went into a room, he stopped. Laura heaved a sigh of relief when the man bent his shoulder, and her feet touched the floor. Taking some trembling breaths beneath the gag, she wished he would remove it. It was getting wet and yucky. As she wondered what was going to happen next, she hoped he would take all her binds off so she could at least have a fighting chance against him.

The sound of the door clicking shut, and then locking, was loud—and final. Now she was alone in a room with a person who promised he would hurt her.

Her captor prodded her to move forward.

“Go on.”

Laura hesitated after a few steps, unsure what to expect. Uncertain what he expected of her—the man who had kidnapped her and brought her to a strange building, to an unfamiliar room.

Large hands folded around her shoulders from behind squeezing her in an oddly calming way before nudging her to go on, making her stumble. “Uh-uh, lady. Don’t stop now. There’s nothing in front of you.” His voice was deep, and silky smooth—like a dangerous predator. Gorgeous, but deadly.

Laura shivered as she hesitantly walked forward a few more paces, not really believing his words.

He grunted behind her. “So you don’t trust me, eh?”

No, I don’t! She hated being out of her comfort zone. Her boyfriend teased her she should let him take her out more often, particularly to new places she’d never been before. He reckoned she was missing out on life.

And now she was experiencing ‘life.’ She snorted to herself. It wasn’t what she thought her boyfriend had been suggesting, which was more along the lines of dinner in a nice restaurant, maybe a concert or even a club.

“I’ll have to cure you of this mistrust, my dear.”

Laura became aware his voice was coming from a different direction. He had moved ahead of her.

Making a sudden decision, Laura ran in the direction she considered the door to be. It took about five or six steps before her shoulder connected with a thud.

Ouch!

Turning around anxiously so she could get at the lock with her hands still tied behind her back, she fiddled with the handle. Her heart pounding, she desperately tried to get it open. She had almost succeeded when she heard running footsteps as he came up behind her slamming the door shut again, denying her freedom, keeping her prisoner.

Laura groaned. It had been a long shot at best.

“Where exactly do you think you’re going?” His voice was low and sardonic, clearly amused by her vain attempt to escape.

His arms were either side of her face, and he pressed his body against hers. She could feel his hard cock against her and shivered in reaction.

I nearly made it. Except where would she have gone once out, not being able to see anything? It was rather stupid, she knew.

His breathing was harsh against her cheek, although his voice sounded amused. “Oh, I see. You want to play games, do you? Don’t worry. We are going to play some great games. We’ve played catch—and now I’ve caught you. Clever me. Next comes leader of the pack. I’ll show you who is in charge around here, and then maybe we’ll play some ball games.” He laughed at his joke.

A slither of fear—or excitement went through her belly, knotting her stomach. I’m not aroused. I’m not!

 

 

 

 

Author bio:

 

Jennifer is a bestselling author in various genre (BDSM, contemporary, sci-fi, paranormal, with historical and fantasy in her works in progress) with several different publishers.

 

An Englishwoman through and through, she lives in a beautiful historical city and is game to try most things once. She’s had a tattoo done on her calf, flew down zip wires 100 feet up in the trees, and was photographed nude by a professional photographer. All of which have taken place since she turned 50!

 

Many of her experiences end up in her books… but you will have to read them to find out what!

 

Do contact Jennifer – she loves to hear from her fans. She posts to her blog three times a week and is on Facebook daily.

 

 

Author links:

 

Blog/website – http://jennifer-denys.blogspot.com/

 

Email – Jennifer.denys@yahoo.com

 

Facebook – http://facebook.com/JenniferDenys

 

Twitter – http://twitter.com/JenniferDenys