Monday, May 13, 2013

WHAT'S IN A FICTION BOOK?



Welcome to the Paranormalist Blog where ghosts, vampires, and all strange creatures are found. 
 
What's in a fiction book?
 
Plenty! An author writes to take you into a place of thrills, chills, adventure, fun and excitement. A place to escape, to live another character’s life whether it’s in fantasy land, outer space, or today’s life.
An author reads mountains of research to give you authenticity in the details so you can learn and experience the trials and travails of the hero’s journey whether they win or lose. They endeavor to make you feel the characters pain, heartache, and yes, the joy of their triumphs.
We have vampires, cowboys, spies, romance, shape shifters, detectives, pirates and so much more. Visit the early west, the Victorian era, the wide expanse of the universe and the worlds built from our imaginations.
Who can pass up something like that? I can’t.
A whole new world is waiting just for you in a fiction book.
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Today I want to tell you readers a little about my book “GYPSY BLOOD” published by BooksWeLove.
Genre: Paranormal/Romance/Thriller/Mystery. It includes quite a bit of Roma lore.
Adult Rated
 
The book has been out for a while now and still doing well, so I imagine readers like it. Thank you readers.
Let me tell you new readers a little about the novella.
 
My detective, Rita Muldova, is of pure Roma blood. Her mother, Anna, is a great seer, and Uncle
Dragus can bend spoons, but his greatest talents are playing the violin and baking. Yes, he loves to bake so much that he and Anna opened a restaurant/bakery in a quaint theme mall. He makes the best brownies in the area.
When Rita decided on a police career, Anna gave her an heirloom that had been handed down through their maternal bloodline. She gave the amulet to Rita for protection and to help with her career. Not an ordinary amulet, mind you, but a pure crystal star she wears around her neck. When Rita holds the star in her hand, she feels a warm pulse run up her arm, and she can see in a dead person’s eye the last person they had seen before they died. It also sends out pulses of warm for a safe sign and then ice cold for danger.
What a boost for her career. But now there is a serial killer staking prostitutes in her city and, to Rita’s horror, the amulet has stopped working.
Agent Matt Boulet has been trailing this killer from New Orleans to Rita’s city. The tall, dark, and dangerous looking agent leads the newly formed task force to catch this killer.
He works closely with Rita. Maybe too close with the sparks of attraction between them, and they face the dangerous waters together with all the inherent gifts of Rita’s family.
Will they win the battle ahead?
 
Step into my fiction book world and find out. Read Gypsy Blood.  
 
 
 
(Here is an excerpt for you)
Before Rita had time to get her fingers on the gun, the man had shot out of the door, yanked her forward, and somehow shoved her headfirst onto the front seat. She skidded over the vinyl bench seat, her nose and cheek hitting hard, blocking her breath for a moment. Rita yelled in surprise. The door slammed shut. She scrambled to sit upright, gagging when she inhaled the dank, moldy scent of the interior. A metal object, hanging from the roof above the mirror, clunked heavy against her head. She swallowed the acrid taste in her throat.
The driver’s door opened and the man slipped inside. One corner of her mind wondered how he could have possibly run around the front of the van so fast.   
Rita rubbed her bruised temple and twisted the door handle. It was stuck. She rammed her shoulder into the door. It didn’t budge. The window was up. Her purse with the gun lay on the sidewalk. She worked the lock button and slammed into the door again. The impact sent shock waves down her arm to her fingertips. Shit. The van was rigged. Rita looked at the serial killer, her heart banged against her ribs, her breathing short and shallow. Tapping the mic with frantic fingers, all she could do was pray.
 The man grinned.
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 For more of Lorrie’s books, check her published works page on her blog.
I love comments. Won’t you please leave one for me? And to one commenter today, I will send a free pdf copy of Gypsy Blood that you can convert. Don’t forget to leave your email address. Honest, I will pick the names from a hat.
 
 
 
 
 


 
 
 

 

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Cursed has released!


Cursed
The Vitruvian Man, book 1
Paranormal romance (sensual)


Blurb

Ten days of freedom. That’s all Fate had allotted me each year. In the streets of Venice, I could walk among them. Mingle. Belong.

During Carnevale, they had no idea who I was. What I was.

For ten days, it didn’t matter.

Until I met her.

Bruno diCesare lives alone by necessity, not choice. An experiment performed by Leonardo da Vinci, who believed having a dual DNA would grant a person immortality, used magic to render Bruno a chimera – the head of a lion, body of a dragon. The only time he can mingle with people is during Carnevale, ten glorious days of masked anonymity, frivolity and intimacy.

Melina Weaver learned fire dancing to enliven her dull existence. A scientist, her long hours at the lab leave no time for a social life. For ten days at Carnevale, she can pretend to be someone else. Someone sexy and daring, who lives on the edge.

Once she meets Bruno, her wish comes true, but everything goes terribly wrong. Beneath Bruno’s costume lurks an alpha male, but is he dangerous? Worse, can she return to an employer who sells her research to the military to make an army of efficient killers? Her only hope may lie with the man she’s just met and never seen.

Available at
Decadent Publishing:





Excerpt



Light danced in his dark eyes. “I must admit, your fire dancing fascinated me. What made you choose such a dangerous skill to master?”

“The thrill of the challenge, I suppose.” It balanced the rest of her mundane life, to a degree. Mastering each new level gave her a sense of achievement, where work couldn’t.

Something flashed through his dark eyes. “Mistakes must be very painful.”

“I practiced a long time before I worked up the nerve to actually light the wands. I found the fire great incentive to focus, however.” God, her grin must be goofy, the way he stared. Such gorgeous eyes, such a deep brown they almost appeared black. He probably had rugged features, if his large hands provided any indication. Too bad he wore gloves, another barrier between them.

“Yes,” he said, “I imagine so.”

“What about you? What other magic do you know?” Oh please, can you get any more ridiculous? It sounded like a line from a bad chick flick.

The crinkle around his eyes was the only evidence of his smile, but enough to charm her.

“Lifetimes of studying the dark arts have provided me with many tricks.”

“Lifetimes?” she blurted.

He stiffened in her arms. “Pardon?”

She watched him carefully. “You said ‘lifetimes’. Plural.” And what the hell did he mean by ‘dark arts’?

Rigidity masked the grace of his movements. “I’m sure you’re mistaken.” He stared over her head as they whirled to the song’s rhythm.

Mistaken my ass. How very strange. More strange that the question upset him. He’d clammed up, and his muscles were so tense, she expected him to bolt. Better to drop it. For now. “Must have been a slip of the tongue.”

“Yes.” Relief sounded in his tone, though guarded.

This man had something to hide. How intriguing.



Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Freebie for National Library Week

Happy National Library Week! To celebrate, I'm making my short fantasy, The Duende and the Muse, available for free from Smashwords. Just enter the coupon code LW85J at checkout. Hurry - it expires April 19!

Happy reading! Reviews are greatly appreciated. :)

Monday, April 15, 2013

It's cover reveal day!


Decadent Tease is unveiling all the fabulous covers for their new line! Come over and check them out! (As of this posting, the links from the main page weren't working, but my reveal page link is http://decadenttease.com/1-cursed-cover-reveal/

Besides the covers, you can enter to win all sorts of goodies! Each author is hosting a giveaway. Come over and join the party!

Sunday, April 14, 2013

April 2013 Issue of Bewitching Book Tours Magazine



This month's issue of Bewitching Book Tours Magazine features author interviews with Tricia Skinner, A.D. Starrling, ML Ryan, John Lansing, Verdell Walker, Dawn Luedecke, Stephanie Amox, and Jean Murray.

Our regular columns include: Tarot in Fiction with Alayna Williams, Auntie Ann's Homespun Advice with Ann Gimpel, Vampires in Fiction with Roxanne Rhoads, The Law of Attraction with Carole Remy, and La Mamma Verde green living advice with Wenona Napolitano.

The April issue also contains: poetry, book excerpts, book reviews, and spotlights on: Undercover by Maria Hammarblad, Who Is Candid by Carole Remy, Ruby by Jeffe Kennedy, and Hidden Depths by Aubrianna Hunter.

The Naughty Nook features “spice up your love life advice” from Roxanne Rhoads and excerpts from steamy reads.



Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Countdown to launch begins!


Decadent Publishing's new Tease line launches April 24! Watch www.decadenttease.com for a schedule of fun events!

Monday, April 1, 2013

Kindle Freebie- Hex and the Single Witch


Hex and the Single Witch is free for your Kindle April 1 and 2 at Amazon

Please spread the word so everyone can get their free copy



Hex and the Single Witch 
Vehicle City Vampires Book One
By Roxanne Rhoads

Anwyn Rose is descended from a long line of powerful witches yet she can barely cast spells young witchlings have mastered. She has one functioning witch gift, the power of knowing, which she puts to good use as a Detective on Flint’s Preternatural Investigation Team (aka the P.I.T. Crew)

It’s a new era in Vehicle City, supernaturals are running the town. 

The P.I.T has their hands full with paranormal crimes. Top priority is a serial killer, who appears to be a vampire, draining young women in the city.

Anwyn is on the case with her sexy partner Detective Mike Malone. 
Complicating things is her relationship Galen, a vampire who looks more guilty than innocent, although Anwyn trusts her instincts even if her power is on the fritz.


Mysterious spells, compromising situations, and a possible demon on the loose make it hard to focus on the case, but Anwyn has to make things right before the human police execute the wrong vampire.

Hex and the Single Witch contains magick, a little bit of mystery, a lot of supernatural mayhem, and a sexy love triangle that will leave you wanting more.

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Win a Print Copy Hex and the Single Witch by Roxanne Rhoads


Goodreads Book Giveaway

Hex and the Single Witch by Roxanne Rhoads

Hex and the Single Witch

by Roxanne Rhoads

Giveaway ends May 01, 2013.
See the giveaway details at Goodreads.
Enter to win

Friday, March 15, 2013

March 2013 Bewitching Book Tours Magazine


This month's issue of Bewitching Book Tours Magazine features: The Chosen by Theresa Meyers and an article describing steampunk, Wicked Lies by Karina Cooper, and The Magic Seasons Series by Jacqueline Paige. 

Author interviews with Annette Gisby, George D Shuman, Folami and Abeni Morris, Charity Santiago, and Alex Gulczynski 

Our regular columns include: Tarot in Fiction with Alayna Williams, Auntie Ann's Homespun Advice with Ann Gimpel, and La Mamma Verde green living advice with Wenona Napolitano. 

The March issue also contains: poetry, book excerpts, reviews, and The Naughty Nook featuring erotic feng shui advice from Roxanne Rhoads, excerpts from steamy reads and interviews with erotica authors- Blakely Bennett and Skhye Moncrief

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Giving away goodies!

Come join me Thursday at Bitten by Books, where there's always a fantastic party going on. Death, party girl that she is, will be there, too. I'm giving away a $50 gift card to the online book store of the winner's choosing.

The Bitten by Books event is live! It's here:
http://bittenbybooks.com/62328/author-cate-masters-interview-and-50-00-gift-card-contest-live-here/
Don't forget, if you RSVP'd beforehand, then mention your RSVP when you visit again.
http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/share-code/ODJlMmZkN2E1MTJhNDQwNWU0YmYzNDMxNTI5M2FjOjkx/

Visit me at Julie's Book Reviews! Please? :)
Good thing Death's a multitasker, because she and I will also be at Julie's Book Reviews on Thursday. I hope you can pop over and say hi: juliesbookreview.blogspot.com
While you're there, enter to win an ebook of Death Is A Bitch!