Tour Finale and Giveaway with Trish McCallan

Giveaway!

Would you like an ebook copy of Forged in Fire?

Leave a comment on this post with your email address to be entered

Forged in Fire
By Trish McCallan
Genre: paranormal romantic suspense

Beth Brown doesn’t believe in premonitions until she dreams a sexy stranger is gunned down during the brutal hijacking of a commercial airliner. When events in her dream start coming true, she heads to the flight’s departure gate. To her shock, she recognizes the man she’d watched die the night before.

Lieutenant Commander Zane Winters comes from a bloodline of elite warriors with psychic abilities. When Zane and two of his platoon buddies arrive at Sea-Tac Airport, he has a vision of his teammates’ corpses. Then she arrives—a leggy blonde who sets off a different kind of alarm.

As Beth teams up with Zane, they discover the hijacking is the first step in a secret cartel’s deadly global agenda and that key personnel within the FBI are compromised. To survive the forces mobilizing against them, Beth will need to open herself to a psychic connection with the sexy SEAL who claims to be her soul mate.

"Forged In Fire is a smoking hot adventure with an irresistible alpha hero. Danger, action, suspense, and a steamy romance make a story that's impossible to put down!" ~Patti O'Shea, National Bestselling Author of Through a Crimson Veil

Available at Amazon B&N Smashwords

About the Author:

Trish McCallan has been writing for as long as she can remember.

In grade school she wrote children’s stories, illustrating them with crayons and binding the sheets together with pencil-punched holes and red yarn. She used to sell these masterpieces at her lemonade stand for a nickel a book. Surprisingly, people actually bought them. Like, all of them. Every night she would have to write a new batch for her basket.

As she got older her interest changed to boys and horses. The focus of her literary masterpieces followed this shift. Her first full length novel was written in seventh grade by pencil in a notebook and featured a girl, a horse and a boy. At the end of the book the teenage heroine rode off into the sunset . . . with the horse.

These days she sticks to romantic suspense with hot alpha heroes and roller-coaster plots. Since she is a fan of all things bizarre, paranormal elements always seem to find a way into her fiction. Her current release, Forged in Fire, was the result of a Black Dagger Brotherhood reading binge, a cold, a bottle of NyQuil and a vivid dream.

Find Trish Online:

www.trishmccallan.com

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/profile.php?id=100001292925346

http://twitter.com/#!/TrishMcCallan

Guest Blog and Giveaway with Berengaria Brown

Hey! Who’s writing this book?
by Berengaria Brown

My very first Werewolf story, "Dogged Pursuit" is coming from Torquere for Halloween. Releasing on October 30, it is Dwyer’s story.

Dwyer is a two-hundred-year-old werewolf currently working as a limo driver. He’s enticed by the scent of a man he has to take into the city. The man’s smell overwhelms him and calls to him “mate”. Yet he thought only a male and a female could mate and he is gay.

Nelson is equally attracted to Dwyer and the two spend a very hot night together.

However their second date is on Halloween and Dwyer is really struggling to keep his wolf under control. Nelson’s scent is giving him a permanent hard-on and his wolf is demanding to be let free, to bite and mate with Nelson.

Their new relationship is derailed by a group of wanna-be vampires robbing an elderly couple and the elderly couple strongly believe Dwyer is their pet dog come back to life, because it is Samhain.

How is Dwyer going to get himself out of this mess? And what will Nelson’s reaction be? Can they possibly have a future together now?

I have been quite surprised to find myself writing paranormal stories. I saw myself as writing contemporaries, about ordinary people who find their very hot happily ever after.

But when I thought about a Halloween story, a werewolf just appeared in my head and started talking to me. Which is pretty much how my first paranormal book happened. I was writing “Intensity”, Keziah’s story, when a ghost just appeared out of nowhere and took over. John Smith told me “Intensity” was his story as much as Keziah’s. Of course, I was hardly surprised when I sat down to write Tia’s story, set in the same world as “Intensity”, and another ghost arrived. Gillian explained she was a relative of John Smith’s and she needed Tia’s help. What’s an author to do? Some days I think I just take dictation!

The third book in that world, “Eternity”, will be out in December. Like “Intensity” and “Complexity”, it is an MMF ménage. But this time both heroes are vampires. One of them has been a minor character in both previous books, and when I was thinking about the possibility of writing a third book, he told me he was a vampire, and it was time I gave him a happy forever after. Fortunately, the perfect woman for him and his partner was available. I’d hate to annoy a vampire! Or a werewolf. Or even a ghost!

Want to win one of my books?

Go to my blog or my webpage, look at my book covers, and email me with the title of one OTHER book I have written. Put the book title in the subject line of an email to me at berengariabrown at gmail dot com and one lucky winner will be able to choose one of my backlist as my Halloween gift to them.

Happy reading.
Berengaria Brown

http://berengariasblog.blogspot.com/

http://berengariabrown.webs.com/

http://www.facebook.com/people/Berengaria-Brown/100000055736290/

http://twitter.com/BerengariaBrown

Book trailers:

My covers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hu-Cs7R3ac

My three Breathless Press books: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC91VdS-5R4

Intensity trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBppbT6Rdx8

Complexity book trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhFsACEwFyQ

Guest Blog and Giveaway with Kathy Kulig

The Nature of the Shapeshifter Beast
by Kathy Kulig

Shapeshifters, vampires, ghosts, demons and angels are making their appearance in paranormal romance. I’ve written about them all (except angels) and readers can’t seem to get enough. I know I don’t get tired of reading them or writing them. As long as writers continue to come up with amazing new worlds, discover new twists into the dark realms, create compelling characters and soul wrenching situations, we’ll be sucked in again and again. Yay!

Shapeshifters can be found in mythology and cultures all around the world. Some of these creatures are harmless, many are potentially malevolent. Here are a few I found interesting. There’s a Leszi, also seen it spelled Leshy. This is a Slavic woodland creature covered in dark hair made out of vines and grass. They can shift into any form—man, bear, wolf, or other forest animal. They’re mischievous and have been known to kidnap women. Japanese Yama-Uba is a hideous old hag that can shift into a beautiful woman to lure her victims. Then she shifts into a mass of snakes and eats her quarry. Sounds like someone’s nightmare. Need a folktale with a little more romance? The Selkie, an Icelandic, Irish and Scottish myth, transform from seal to human. Sadly, they can only have brief contact with humans—a good set up for a romantic tragedy—and then they must return to the sea. Male selkies have great seductive powers over women.

And a couple Norse dragon myths: Lindworm is a serpent-like dragon that stalks the countryside devouring cattle or feasting upon the dead in cemeteries. Nidhogg is a dragon that gnaws at the roots of Yggdrasill, the world tree.

A lot of this information I found in a reference book called “The Cryptopedia, A Dictionary of the Weird, Strange & Downright Bizarre” by Jonathan Maberry & David F. Kramer. This is a great source for stirring up paranormal story ideas.

I’m so impressed by the creativity of paranormal authors who can take an old myth and create a story with a new twist or make up an entirely new one.

Many of my stories have a variety of shapeshifters—a man with a 300 year old Celtic curse shapeshifts into a stage but he can be a man only beneath the moonlight. I’ve used a twist on an ancient Norwegian myth where a person can don the skin of any animal and become that animal by willing it so. In this particular mythology, I’ve had a shapeshifting mountain lion, wolf, bear and leopard. My demons also have the power to shapeshift, an ability mostly used as a disguise to hide their presence on earth. My demons have been a coyote, falcon, wildcat and one has the ability to appear as any other human. Imagine the trouble he can get into.

When I wrote DRAGON WITCH, I wanted to write something different. A friend at work does origami. She travels all over the world to origami conventions. She made me an origami dragon. Funny because I never told her I liked dragons. I have him on my desk at work. Of course, I looked at him and thought dragon shifter! This creature when in human form has a voracious sexual appetite. I set the story on another world, because It has always been my dream to write a SciFi-like story. Then I added another love interest, an interstellar transport Captain—a hunky guy that the biologist/witch heroine had a steamy affair with and she can’t for the life of her forget. Toss them all on this planet in a desperate situation where lives are at stake, and that’s the set up for DRAGON WITCH. I hope you’ll enjoy it, because I had a blast writing it.

BLURB:

Biologist and witch, Jaida Chel combines nature magick with herbal science to protect Kai, the last shapeshifting dragon on her world of Somerled. But when Captain Brayden Stokes reenters her life not only is Kai’s life at stake, but so is Jaida’s secured position in the colony. Brayden and Jaida can’t resist the sexual heat between them, even though she knows a relationship would be doomed. Fleet pilots don’t stay planetside for long.

Jaida is torn between Brayden and her dragon and companion, Kai. When Kai morphs into a human twice a year, his sex drive is ravenous. He must mate for twenty-four hours or die. Unrestrained passion between Kai and Jaida temps Brayden into a forbidden encounter. With Jaida’s sassy, wicked ways, the three cross boundaries, exploring eroticism beyond their imagination. When secrets and betrayals are revealed, Brayden must risk everything for one last chance at love.

BUY link http://www.jasminejade.com/p-8624-dragon-witch.aspx

FREE BOOK Giveaway

Select any ebook (except the new release Dragon Witch) from Kathy’s back list.

Wild Jade, Seducing the Stones, Desert of the Damned or Damned and Desired.

Leave a comment on this post with email address

One Winner will be Chosen

Winner will be announced next Wednesday (not tomorrow)

What Does a Vampire Want? Guest Blog and Giveaway with Susan Hanniford Crowley

Dark-haired, dark-eyed, Vampire David Hilliard walks into the room carrying a bottle of wine, a large bouquet of red roses, and a box of candy."Roxanne, where are you?"

I follow him inside. "What are you doing here?"

"We were invited back to Fang-tastic Books."

"I was invited. What is all that?"

He grins with fangs showing. I hate to admit how sexy he is.

"Two dozen red roses with thorns for Roxanne."

"Hoping to get lucky I see." He ignores me.

"The bottle is actually chilled blood/vanilla wine. Some humans consider it an aphrodisiac."

"And the box of chocolates?"

"I love biting humans who have eaten chocolate. Oh, it's such a good taste. Oh, Roxanne. I don't think she's here. We should start while we wait."

I laugh. "So how shall we start?"

"I'll interview you." He puts everything on the table and takes a seat facing me. "So how long have you been hanging with vampires?"

"I've been studying vamps for over 20 years. But I started writing about them 5 years ago." I cross my legs. "I have a question for you."

David smirks. "Really? Fire."

"What does a vampire want?"

His eyes widen with surprise. "The easy answer of course is blood, but the truth is eternity is a long time. People come and go in life. In vampire time, years are more like minutes. Finding your life mate changes a long dreary endless existence into an unimaginable bliss. Let me give you examples.

"In When Love Survives, shapeshifter Gregor knew his life mate by sight. In the midst of disaster, he had to keep her safe while helping her to save lives."

"You had a small part in that."

"Yes, but an important part." David leans back in his chair.

The man is perfectly balanced. I think it's a vampire thing.

"In The Stormy Love Life of Laura Cordelais, I knew Laura was meant for me at least I thought so. For a long time, I believed the whole life mate thing to be a myth, and she had a hard time adjusting to being a vampire. But if you really love someone, you don't give up on them. Trevor found that out in A Vampire for Christmas."

We both laugh.

"Georgia though he was a stalker, when he was really trying to protect her from the demons who had marked her for death," I added.

"That brings us to the newest--Vampire in the Basement. It follows what happened to Gregor and Regina when they left New York after When Loves Survives. It also shows Theo, a vampire of Manhattan and also an Arnhem Knight, when he falls in love with that funny but broken hearted rabbit shapeshifter Lorraine. All she could talk about was how warm he was to hold." He chuckles to himself. "Know this—a vampire is cold except to his or her life mate. Then the embrace of love is warm and tender and forever."

"Even in my Greek God contemporary erotic romance Poseidon's Catch, immortality is not all it's cracked up to. Poseidon finds out firsthand how fragile human life is, how love can run through fingers like water. It takes an extraordinary effort to keep it."

He opens the wine and pours some into a glass. After a sip, he sighs. "All of your books are available at All Romance Ebooks, and starting October 1st, a limited print edition of The Stormy Love Life of Laura Cordelais will be available through your website."

He pours another glass as he sees Roxanne come in.

David pours me a glass and we all clink glasses. "Thank you, Roxanne, for having us over."

Roxanne offers me a chocolate and I take one. I do love chocolate.

Now for the Contest:

One lucky commenter will receive one pdf ebook of either When Love Survives, The Stormy Love Life of Laura Cordelais, or A Vampire for Christmas.

Winner's choice, and the contest is worldwide.

Deadline is Tuesday September 28 EST.

For more about Susan Hanniford Crowley please visit:

Website: http://www.susanhannifordcrowley.com/

Blog: http://nightsofpassion.wordpress.com/

Twitter: @SHCrowley

Facebook: Susan Hanniford CrowleyPublisher: Tease Publishing LLC http://www.teasepublishingllc.com/

Check Out Her Backlist of Books:

When Love Survives

The Stormy Love life of Laura Cordelais

A Vampire for Christmas

Vampire in the Basement

Poseidon's Catch

Paranormals at Play with Susan Hanniford Crowley

Talk, dark, and devastatingly handsome vampire David Hilliard walks in.

“Hello, Roxanne. I hope you don’t mind my coming along. Susan is sometimes shy. She has interviewed me so I thought turnabout would be fair play.” He grins, flashing pearly white fangs, and takes a seat..

Paranormal romance author Susan Hanniford Crowley walks in and sits opposite him. “David, I wasn’t expecting you.”

He chuckles. “For your first question, I would like you to share something fascinating about your life.”

“I’m a Thai kickboxer.”

“I find women warriors so sexy.”

“Next question?” I cross my legs and for once I am glad I’m wearing slacks. Vampires are such opportunists. They’ll get away with a lot if you let them.

“What’s your favorite time of the day?”

“One in morning. When everyone is asleep is the perfect time to write. In the winter, the sky is so dark, that it’s perfect for writing scenes on the edge.”

“What would you like to talk about?”

“I’d like to talk about my Vampires in Manhattan series, and especially my paranormal romance novel THE STORMY LOVE LIFE OF LAURA CORDELAIS.”

“It’s my favorite book.” He laughs.

“It’s your love story with Laura. What was it like to fall in love with a Telkhine?” I ask him.“Electrifying. Telkhines are very different and rare paranormals. Laura feels the storm intensely in her very being. She’s also very perceptive.”

“What was your favorite scene?”

I’m trying not to smile.

His eyes narrow on me. “You’ve managed to turn the tables on me.” He shakes his head laughing. “I have a lot of favorite scenes.”

“Pick one.”

He fixes his dark, fathomless eyes on me. “How about this scene between Laura and me.”


Excerpt from THE STORMY LOVE LIFE OF LAURA CORDELAIS:

A tear fell down her cheek. My father!

He brushed it away. "Oh, no, darling. We'll find him. Don't cry."

He kissed her cheek. "You'll add rain to the storm, and the evil might find us. I think Eosh Tower is part of the lilith, and we're safe here. When the storm passes, we'll leave and find him."

Laura took a deep breath and nodded. She wouldn't cry. The storm continued to rage beyond their walls.

"Besides the lilith has apparently taken an interest in you to our benefit." He examined the brooch on her robe, rubbing the yellow stone with his thumb. Beneath its facets, a fire swirled.
"This gem means something."

"What do you think?"

"I have no idea, but we'll probably find out." David stood up and pulled her with him. "Come on. Let's see what's behind those other doors." The door to the right opened into a storage room. Behind the left door was a kitchenette and off that a bathroom. After rummaging through a strange collection of items piled haphazardly together, they found some blankets and pillows. David set up a makeshift bed on the floor of the outer room. Laura looked at the bed and laughed, "You're very good at this."

"I had a lot of experience camping when I was a soldier."

David kicked off his shoes. Then he took off his shirt revealing a powerful chest, tight abs, and strong arms. Laura bit her lower lip. He took off his jeans and his boxers.

"Oh," she moaned in anticipation.

He looked at her and smiled. "What are you doing?"

She giggled. "Nothing. Just standing here."

He walked over to her. "Now that's the problem." He slid off her Telkhine robe and let it slip to the floor. "Turn around."

She stood with her back to him, and he unzipped the back of her strapless gown.

His hands reached under her arms to cup her breasts. He breathed in the scent of flowers in her hair and sighed. Then his mouth kissed her neck and moved to her shoulders. As he trailed kisses down her back, his hands moved down her body inching the dress with them. He paused at the hips, pushing off her black lace panties. The gown and underwear fluttered down to her ankles.

Laura quickly turned. "I want to be in charge this time. I want to send you to that unconscious bliss."

David smirked. "Okay. I'm up for that."

He made himself comfortable in their makeshift bed and held out his arms to his wife. "Laura, I'm lonely." He narrowed his eyes mischievously.
------------------------------------------------------

“OMG, I’m glad you stopped there.” Susan laughs.

David just grins. “You’re so lucky I’m a nice guy.” Turning to Roxanne, he adds, “You can get my book THE STORMY LOVE LIFE OF LAURA CORDELAIS at All Romance Ebooks http://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-thestormylovelifeoflauracordelais-374695-139.html

“It’s also in Kindle at Amazon books online and available at other fine ebook stores as well. But what about print?” he asks.

“We’re waiting for the print release date.”

“While we wait, Susan, tell them about the prequel and the sequel.”

“The prequel, WHEN LOVE SURVIVES, is about two supernaturals who meet and fall in love as they work to find survivors in the wreckage of the World Trade Center. It’s my tribute to those that rescue and the diverse heroism of New Yorkers.“
http://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-whenlovesurvives-362921-143.html

“I’m in that book too.” He leans back in his chair.

David looks so fine in that dark blue Armani suit. “A small part.”

“Hey, I’m funny in that book.”

Susan laughs. “Then there’s the sequel A VAMPIRE FOR CHRISTMAS.

Blurb:

Georgia doesn't know she's a Harmony. Jobless and about to be homeless, her heart sinks when a hand snatches the coat of her dreams from the storefront window. Then she sees him staring at her reflection . . . the stalker.

Trevor Stenwood, a vampire and Arnhem Knight, is handsome, sophisticated, and tongue-tied every time he sees her. Sworn to protect the supernaturals of the city, he's fallen for a woman marked for death by demons. How can he save her when she's afraid of him?

At Christmas time in New York City, will love bloom in the snow?

http://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-avampireforchristmas-387184-139.html

“Aren’t you giving something away?”

“Yes, to one lucky commenter I am giving away a PDF copy of A VAMPIRE FOR CHRISTMAS. All you have to do is comment and say you’d love a vampire for Christmas.”

David slaps his knee. “I mean, really, wouldn’t everyone?” Then he gets up and is inching closer to our host.

“Thank you, Roxanne, for having David and me.” I go over and grab his arm to pull him toward the door. Last time I brought David anywhere he nibbled on my friends.

“For your viewers who would like to know more, they can visit me at:

http://www.susanhannifordcrowley.com/

http://nightsofpassion.wordpress.com/

on Twitter -- http://twitter.com/SHCrowley

on Facebook -- http://www.facebook.com/people/Susan-Hanniford-Crowley/629298868

~Susan

Thanks Susan or joining us today...and for bringing along David. He's quite yummy, I almost wished you would have let him snack on me.

I'm sure a little nibble wouldn't hurt... too much...

just don't tell my husband. :-)

So readers...would you like a vampire for Christmas?

Just leave a comment on this post and you'll be entered to win an ecopy of Susan's A Vampire for Christmas

Contest Open until midnight EST Tuesday May 18

Winner Announced Wednesday May 19

Worldbuilding for the Undead (Or, Do Wraiths Eat Bacon?) with Naomi Clark

Whilst AFTERLIFE was doing the rounds at my writers' group, one key issue that kept coming up was wraith physiology. My main character, Yasmin Stoker, is a wraith who can take either the form of a human being or mist. And this became a huge sticking point, because everyone wanted to know if she had a fully functioning human body when she's in human form. Does she need to eat, sleep, use the toilet, etc? Does she breathe? If she has lungs, a heart, whatever, where do they go when she turns to mist?

And the answer was mostly, I don't actually know. I wrote the first half of this book for Nanowrimo 2007, so at the time it was just a case of "get the words down, sod it if it doesn't make sense!" So I didn't stop to think about whether or not Yasmin had human needs whilst in human form. I know she sleeps (mostly for narrative convenience; a character who's awake 24 hours a day requires a lot more plot than I had at the time). I know she eats human food, but she doesn't need to - it's a comfort thing. The chapter that really sparked off the debate for my writers’ group was one where Yasmin is in bed eating a bacon sandwich. Do wraiths eat bacon? Inquiring minds wanted to know and I had no answers!

Most of the other undead creatures in the book were pretty well developed by that stage in the writing. I knew my vampires, my Lich Lords, my ghouls; how they functioned, what they needed to survive, and what could hurt them. Yasmin was a bit different and I hadn't really figured out all the answers by the time I finished the first draft. Having spent hours agonising over whether or not she had kidney stones and could digest bacon, I came to the conclusion that I might be overthinking things.

But how can you ever be sure? How much detail is too much? Are these the tiny details on which an entire book will rise or fall? Or are they the tiny details that readers will overlook because they accept that we're dealing with supernatural creatures?

I started to set the rules for Yasmin more firmly in place as I redrafted with my group’s feedback, figuring out how much physical damage she could take, what happens to her bacon sandwiches when she turns to mist, and whether a vampire could kill her. And in the end, I think I resolved all the burning questions. I swear though, if I ever have to spend another writers' group meeting trying to explain why vampire sandwiches are not going to happen, I'm scrapping the whole book. It's bacon all the way.

About Author Naomi Clark

Naomi Clark lives in Cambridge and is a mild-mannered office worker by day, but a slightly crazed writer by night. Her short fiction has appeared in ezines from Midnight Times to Dark Fire Fiction. She has a perfectly healthy obsession with giant sea creatures and a preference for vodka-based cocktails. When she's not writing, Naomi is probably either reading or watching 80s cartoon shows, and sometimes she manages to do all three at once. Her debut novel, AFTERLIFE is out now from Damnation Books, and the first of her URBAN WOLF novels, SILVER KISS out now from QueeredFiction.

Visit her livejournal at http://naomi-jay.livejournal.com/

Follow her on Twitter at http://twitter.com/naomi_jay

Interested in AFTERLIFE?

One lucky reader has the chance to win a pdf copy of

Naomi's ebook AFTERLIFE

All you have to do is leave a comment on this post