Sunday, October 16, 2011

SPOOK-A-LICIOUS: WHERE BOO-KS DEVOUR YOU BLOG HOP TOUR (OCT 17-24)


1) HAVE FUN!!!

2) INVITE ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS!!! SPREAD THE WORD!!!

3) THIS TOUR STARTS: Monday, October 17, at Midnight (Arizona Time)
    THIS TOUR ENDS: Monday, October 24, at Midnight (Arizona Time)
    Winners will be drawn and posted October 25th! ***

4) MEET AND MINGLE WITH ALL THE AUTHORS & BOOK PAGES! EXPERIENCE A NEW DESTINATION AT EVERY STOP! PARTICIPATE IN EVERY BLOG CONTEST AND BE ENTERED FOR CHANCES TO WIN MULTIPLE PRIZES! EVERY BLOG VISITED IS ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY TO WIN!!

5) PARTICIPATION AT ALL BLOGS IS RECOMMENDED, BUT NOT REQUIRED. REMEMBER, THE MORE BLOGS YOU HOP, THE BETTER YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING PRIZES. EVERY AUTHOR & BOOK PAGE IS WAITING TO MEET AND INTERACT WITH YOU, SO PLEASE BE SURE TO SHOW THEM SOME LOVE!

6) DID I MENTION TO HAVE FUN? WHOO! HOO!! HERE WE GOOOOOOOOOOOO!
***Authors & Book Pages have full discretion to choose an alternate winner in the event any winner fails to claim their prize(s) within 72 hours of their name being posted or after notification of win, whichever comes first. Anyone who participates in this blog hop tour is subject to these rules***
Halloween is one of my favorite times of the year! Ghouls, witches, goblins, ghosts, vampires and werewolves galore. You name the monster or paranormal creature, betcha it shows up around Halloween! This last weekend my husband carved our pumpkin. What do ya think? Pretty ghoulish, isn't it? The kids love it! My second son just celebrated his 4th birthday on Sunday, so he was pleased to have the pumpkin as part of his Halloween Birthday Party. He also had a green and black googly eyeball birthday cake (his idea, not mine!). 
 Dressing up for Halloween is always great fun! Here my husband and I are on our way to a costume party, the entertainment being the band he plays in as singer and bass player, called Mystagen. I love their music!
And, of course, as a paranormal romance author, I love reading spooky stories, especially during this time of year. I love curling up on the couch with a steaming mug of hot apple cider, watching the wind blow colored leaves across the yard while I read a spooky novel that makes the hair on the back of my neck rise and my heart pound from fear and suspense. Lucky for us, there are plenty of great stories to read! 

Here's a quick look at two of my favorites...(okay, you got me, they're both written by moi...but I still think they're quite good!):

Lord Jeremy North's curse is to become a werewolf during every full moon, turning into a bloodthirsty monster that kills with no remorse. When he finds a woman nearly frozen upon his doorstep, his sense of honor compels him to help her, even at the risk he might kill her himself.

Lillian Merriweather hadn't planned to get caught in a blizzard while traveling the English countryside. Nor had she planned on finding refuge in a house full of secrets. But Lillian has secrets of her own. And what she's running from is not far behind...

To read an excerpt or purchase click here.




Melora Merriweather is searching for a fellow witch to protect her from a scheming uncle with plans of marriage. When her carriage overturns on her journey, she is rescued by a mysterious man whom she learns is the very person she seeks. But, he's not the witch she thought he was...


Sebastian Collins should have left for London days ago. Now a snowstorm has trapped him with a woman who has come seeking protection, a woman who intrigues him like no other. And with each passing hour, his hunger for her grows...hunger for her kiss, her caress, and her blood.

To read an excerpt or purchase click here.
Contest:
First Prize: A .pdf copy of my e-book novella, The Witch and the Vampire.

Second Prize: One set of one-of-a-kind handcrafted earrings designed by Michele Nelson owner and creator of Lady Dragonfly Gifts.

To enter: Simply follow my blog and leave a comment or answer this question: What spooky book do you like to read? Any genre, any title, any author...I love to hear what other people recommend since I'm always on the look out for a really great book!

Winners will be selected using random.org. 

Be sure to leave your e-mail address so I can contact you if you win! Winners will be chosen on October 25th. Good luck!

Also, I invite you to visit me on Facebook, Twitter and GoodReads where I post information on my current and upcoming releases! If you'd like to purchase my books, visit my publisher The Wild Rose Press..

 
Be sure to visit Lady Dragonfly Gifts for beautiful homemade jewelry (remember the holidays are right around the corner!) and check out her photographs that you can purchase at Lady Dragonfly Photography.


Thanks so much for visiting!


Don't forget to visit the other wonderful blogs on the Spook-a-licious Blog Hop Tour for chances to win more prizes. Remember, the more you enter, the more chances you have to win! Happy Halloween!

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Dear Mr. Splitfoot...

 The birth of Spiritualism (the belief that spirits of the dead are able to communicate with the living) began March 31, 1848 at the home of the Fox sisters in Hydesville, New York. Margaretta and Catherine, also called Maggie and Kate, ages 15 and 12, moved into a house in Arcadia township in Wayne County on December 11, 1847 with their parents, John David Fox and Margaret Smith Fox. The prior residents reported they believed the house to be haunted but nothing strange occurred until the rapping began in March. Mrs. Fox held no beliefs of the supernatural. She and her husband reasoned there must be a logical cause to the noises and searched the house trying to discover the source of the knocks and rapping that were beginning to disturb their sleep at night. The noises continued while they searched. Though they found nothing to explain the strange noises, they felt the vibrations of the rapping on the floor and bed. This continued for two weeks when the girls, who shared the same bedroom as their parents, tried to make similar sounds by snapping their fingers. At each snap from Kate’s fingers, the strange rapping noise occurred again. She and her sister repeated this several times until Maggie asked the noise to “Do as I do.” She clapped her hands four times and the rapping responded four times.

Mrs. Fox then asked it to count to ten and the rapping responded ten times. She asked it to tell her the ages of her children and it did so correctly. She asked if it was a human being making the noises and silence followed. When she asked if it was a spirit making the noise, the rapping sounded. Mrs. Fox continued with a series of questions followed by knocks or silence. In doing so, she ascertained that the spirit was that of a 31 year-old peddler who had come to the house and been murdered. His body was buried in their cellar.

Mr. Fox was soon dispatched to collect Mrs. Redfield, their next door neighbor. After explaining about the noises and responses, Mrs. Redfield accompanied him back to his home where she at first suspected them to be playing a prank. Soon she was convinced that something strange was going on and sent for her husband. Shortly after, several of their neighbors visited the home, each witnessing the eerie knocks and rapping in response to the questions asked. They searched the house, looking for any reasonable explanation for the noises but could find none. The girls referred to the spirit as “Mr. Splitfoot”, a common synonym for the devil. After a long and complicated interrogation involving the use of the alphabet to spell out words for communication, the spirit revealed himself as a man named Charles B. Rosma. Two days later, Mr. Fox and his neighbors began to dig the floor in the cellar to search for the buried remains of the peddler. They dug until water halted their efforts. No record of Charles B. Rosma was ever found, but later, in 1904, a human skeleton was discovered buried in the walls of the cellar.

In April 1848, an attorney named E.E. Lewis took the personal testimonies of those members involved and published the accounts in a pamphlet called A Report of theMysterious Noises, Heard in the House of John D. Fox. When news of the ‘Hydesville Rappings’ reached Maggie and Kate’s elder sister, Mrs. Leah Fox Fish, she saw an opportunity to capitalize on the fame of her sisters. Leah’s husband had recently abandoned her and their daughter and she was in desperate need of way to support herself. She became Maggie and Kate’s manager of sorts, leading them to perform séances, meetings and stage performances where they talked to the spirits of the dead. For several years, they travelled and performed their mediumistic talents for both believers and non-believers. And in massive numbers, people flocked to see them. Knowledge of the sisters spread and with them the Spiritualist movement spread far and wide. Other mediums were discovered to have abilities to speak with the spirits and began to perform.  By 1855 Spiritualism claimed 2 million followers. The séances they performed went beyond the loud rapping from the Fox sister’s childhood home. Tables elevated out of reach, people were touched by unseen hands, objects moved unassisted within the room. Many skeptics charged the Fox sisters with fraud, claiming they cracked their toes, ankles and knees joints, or they used ventriloquism and other mechanical devices. They willingly allowed committee after committee to perform lengthy investigations with numerous tests on them, but no trickery was ever discovered.

 After falling in love with an arctic explorer named Elisha Kent Kane, Maggie abandoned her medium duties. However, their families did not approve of the match. Although they exchanged private vows they were never officially married. Tragedy struck on a voyage to England in 1857, when Kane took ill and died soon after. Maggie was left broken-hearted and almost penniless. She was forced to go back to performing her medium talents on stage for her living. The sisters were growing weary of the grueling performance schedules and celebrity status. Maggie turned to alcohol as her health and mental state began to decline.

Kate also began drinking which proved detrimental to her performances on stage. In 1871, she traveled to England to perform for the British Spiritualists. A year later she married a barrister named Henry Dietrich Jencken with whom she bore two sons, Ferdinand and Henry, Jr. She lived happily in England with her family, only attending a few private séances a year until 1881 when her husband suffered a stroke and died three days later. Kate returned to New York with her boys. With her husband gone, she succumbed to alcohol once again and was arrested in 1888 for drunkenness and neglecting her children. The boys were taken from her and placed in the Juvenile Asylum until Maggie arranged for their custody to be placed in their Uncle Edward’s care, Henry’s brother.

The ‘death-blow’ to Spiritualism occurred on October 21, 1888 when Maggie made an appearance on the stage of the New York Academy of Music. After years of loneliness, grief and alcohol abuse Maggie chose to confess to the world that Spiritualism was a sham. She admitted that she and her sister, Kate, had misled the world by creating the noises of the rapping and knocks by the simple cracking of their toes. What started out as a simple prank escalated to national acclaim. She also stated that her elder sister, Leah, had forced them to perform as mediums for the public. A year later, however, Maggie recanted her confession. Some suspect the confession itself was the sham. Maggie and Kate believed Leah had been behind the reports of child neglect that resulted in the seizure of Kate’s children. Their sister Leah had profited greatly from their early years of séances and stage performances and had married a wealthy businessman, Daniel Underhill. They wished to embarrass and discredit Leah since she continued her success with published books on Spiritualism. Maggie and Kate’s financial decline might have also prompted them to accept payment from an anti-Spiritualist group who wished for the sisters to denounce the new religion.

Although many critics applauded that they were right all along, there were enough Spiritualist believers to keep the movement going strong until the early 20th century. Even today there is still a strong belief for many in the ability for humans to communicate in some manner with the spirits.

Kate Fox died in July 1892 from alcoholism. Maggie Fox died at a friend’s house in Brooklyn, March 1893. She was penniless at the time of her death. They were both buried at Cypress Hills Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.

Sunday, October 2, 2011

Six Sentence Sunday


This week I'm posting a piece from my current work-in-progress, The Brides of Hawthorne Hall. It's a gothic romance set during the Regency era. In this scene the heroine's cousin, Lizzie, is planning to play the pianoforte for their guest, Colonel Hawthorne. Here goes:

 “I’m getting the impression that she’s not very keen to play,” Colonel Hawthorne whispered to me after Uncle Beecham thought to lend assistance to the matter of his rebellious daughter. 
I leaned over to watch the trio.  I caught snatches of dialogue and discovered that Lizzie feared not playing, but she wished to play Mozart and her mother insisted she play Bach.  I couldn’t imagine her playing either without their guest running from the room, clutching his ears in agony.
I leaned back in my seat and forced a smile for their poor victim.  “I’m sure she’s just being modest.”


 

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Sunday, September 25, 2011

Six Sentence Sunday


Another week of Six Sentence Sunday fun!
Set up: Lord Jeremy North and his servant, Amery are discussing the methods of how to kill a werewolf, a condition in which Lord North suffers. Amery starts:   
 
“But, we don’t know if silver bullets work. We haven’t tried that, yet.”

“Through the heart should do, I think. Quick and clean, as may be.”

“Silver or lead, what difference does it make if there’s a hole in your heart? Any bullet through the heart might do." 

To purchase: 

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Monday, September 19, 2011

AUTUMN HARVEST: FALL BETWEEN THE PAGES BLOG HOP TOUR (SEPT 19-26)




1) HAVE FUN!!!

2) INVITE ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS!!! SPREAD THE WORD!!!

3) THIS TOUR STARTS: Monday, September 19, at Midnight (Arizona Time)
    THIS TOUR ENDS: Monday, September 26, at Midnight (Arizona Time)
    Winners will be drawn and posted September 27th! ***

4) MEET AND MINGLE WITH ALL THE AUTHORS & BOOK PAGES! EXPERIENCE A NEW DESTINATION AT EVERY STOP! PARTICIPATE IN EVERY BLOG CONTEST AND BE ENTERED FOR CHANCES TO WIN MULTIPLE PRIZES! EVERY BLOG VISITED IS ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY TO WIN!!

5) PARTICIPATION AT ALL BLOGS IS RECOMMENDED, BUT NOT REQUIRED. REMEMBER, THE MORE BLOGS YOU HOP, THE BETTER YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING PRIZES. EVERY AUTHOR & BOOK PAGE IS WAITING TO MEET AND INTERACT WITH YOU, SO PLEASE BE SURE TO SHOW THEM SOME LOVE!

6) DID I MENTION TO HAVE FUN? WHOO! HOO!! HERE WE GOOOOOOOOOOOO!
 
***Authors & Book Pages have full discretion to choose an alternate winner in the event any winner fails to claim their prize(s) within 72 hours of their name being posted or after notification of win, whichever comes first. Anyone who participates in this blog hop tour is subject to these rules***
Fall is a wonderful, nostalgic time of year. The simmering heat of the last few months begins to fade away, and we're greeted by the brisk cool air carrying the scents of autumn. The dark greens of summer transform into brilliant shades of yellows, reds, and oranges. The school year begins and suddenly I find my house has grown a bit more quiet and subdued during the day. I have more opportunities to write, read, and clean my house. Suddenly, my summer-long house of chaos becomes a bit more organized and orderly (well, at least, until the winter holidays arrive!). 

My daily walks begin to shorten, but as I travel along the path of fallen leaves I can almost taste the hot apple cider my husband has waiting for me on those chilly days. The urge to bake also hits me at this time of year. I start flipping through my recipes looking for new types of cookies, cakes and breads to bake. Anything with apples and pumpkin alert my taste-buds, as well as chocolate, but that really goes without saying!

The second round of birthdays in my family begins in September and runs until Thanksgiving, including two of my children, my husband and other family members. My children attend a steady stream of fall festivals, hayrides, corn mazes and at every opportunity they can be found jumping into piles of fallen leaves with the joyous sound of laughter and silly giggles.That in itself is enough to bring a smile to my heart. 

These are a few of my favorite things about Autumn. So, now I ask you: What is your favorite part of Autumn? What do you look forward to at this time of year?

Contest:
To win one set of one-of-a-kind handcrafted earrings designed by Michele Nelson owner and creator of Lady Dragonfly Gifts, simply follow my blog and answer one of the above questions on this post. One winner will be selected using random.org. Be sure to leave your e-mail address so I can contact you if you win! The winner will be chosen on September 27th. Good luck!



Also, be sure to visit me on Facebook, Twitter and GoodReads where I post information on my current and upcoming releases! If you'd like to purchase my books, visit my publisher The Wild Rose Press.

 
Be sure to visit Lady Dragonfly Gifts for beautiful homemade jewelry (remember the holidays are right around the corner!) and check out her photographs that you can purchase at Lady Dragonfly Photography.


Thanks so much for visiting!

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Six Sentence Sunday

This is my first post participating with Six Sentence Sunday. I've been following this weekly event for a while now and I'm excited to finally be a part of it. Here we go!


Set-up: This is a snippet of conversation caught between the main character, Lord Jeremy North and his servant, Amery, discussing the curse that afflicts Lord North.

"I was not born a werewolf. I was not bitten, at least, not that I can remember. I am cursed. There, I’ve said it. You may now run to fetch the masses. You cannot allow such a creature to exist among women and children and innocent men."

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Thursday, September 15, 2011

September Days

What a busy month September is turning out to be! My son started school and is loving it! His favorite part is that he finally gets to ride on the bus! lol And my youngest is turning 1! In fact, my little angel's birthday is TODAY! It's difficult to believe this year has gone by so fast. Wasn't I just pregnant and heading to the hospital? Now, she's walking, talking and is my family's little boss running around and pointing at her brothers saying "Bad!" Well, she knows them best!

As I'm typing this, she's grabbed my keys from the side table and is waving to me. "Bye-bye!" I don't know where she thinks she's going, but I'm having this flash forward feeling of her when she's sixteen with the keys to the car. Okay, let's not get ahead of ourselves! 

Today, I'm over at the Black Rose Blog discussing characters with the other authors from the darker side of the garden. And, talking about characters, I have to go chase after my daughter. She's got my shoes and is heading towards my handbag. Like mother, like daughter, I guess!

Sunday, July 17, 2011

TREASURE QUEST: DISCOVERY LIES BETWEEN THE COVERS: MEGA AUTHOR BLOG HOP TOUR (JULY 18-25)






TOUR RULES:

1)  HAVE FUN!!!

2)  INVITE ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS!!! SPREAD THE WORD!!!

3)  THIS TOUR STARTS:  Monday, July 18, at Midnight (Arizona Time)
      THIS TOUR ENDS: Monday, July 25, at Midnight (Arizona Time)
      Winners will be drawn and posted July 26th! *** 

4)  MEET AND MINGLE WITH ALL THE AUTHORS! EXPERIENCE A NEW PARTY DESTINATION AT EVERY STOP! PARTICIPATE IN EVERY BLOG CONTEST AND BE ENTERED FOR CHANCES TO WIN MULTIPLE PRIZES! EVERY BLOG VISITED IS ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY TO WIN!!

5)  PARTICIPATION AT ALL BLOGS IS RECOMMENDED, BUT NOT REQUIRED. REMEMBER, THE MORE BLOGS YOU HOP, THE BETTER YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING PRIZES. EVERY AUTHOR IS WAITING TO MEET AND INTERACT WITH YOU, SO PLEASE BE SURE TO SHOW EVERY AUTHOR SOME LOVE!

6)  DID I MENTION TO HAVE FUN?  WHOO! HOO!! HERE WE GOOOOOOOOOOOO!

***Authors have full discretion to choose an alternate winner in the event any winner fails to claim their prize(s) within 72 hours of their name being posted or after notification of  win, whichever comes first. Anyone who participates in this blog hop tour is subject to these rules***

Most Treasured Books


If you're a reader, then I'm sure at some point you've come across this list (or one similar) of classic titles. People who list it on their blogs are supposed to bold-type the books they've actually read and italicize the books they started and never finished. Those they've never read at all are left in the original type. I've completed my list below.


1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 The Bible
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin – Louis De Berniere
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary – Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession – AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web – EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

Looks like I've read 24 out of 100 and 4 I haven't finished yet. Seems I have a bit of catching up to do. Good thing I have a couple of these on my TBR pile. There are some of my most treasured books on here, such as Jane Eyre and Rebecca. Both of these books influenced and inspired my writing in a way few others have done. But, there are some titles I feel are missing from this list. I would have added A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, and Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. And, don't you think Edgar Allen Poe should be on this list?


How many have you read? Are there any titles not already listed that you might have added? Do you have any favorites?

                                       Contest:    
To win a one-of-a-kind handcrafted bracelet designed by Michele Nelson owner of Lady Dragonfly Gifts, simply follow my blog and answer one of the above questions on this post. One winner will be selected using random.org. Be sure to leave your e-mail address so I can contact you if you win! The winner will be chosen on July 26th. Good luck!


Also, be sure to visit me on Facebook, Twitter and GoodReads where I post information on my current and upcoming releases! If you'd like to purchase my books, visit my publisher The Wild Rose Press.

Thanks so much for visiting!
 
Please visit Nicholas Denmon's blog to continue in this hop for chances to win more prizes!

Saturday, July 9, 2011

Awesome Reviews for The Merriweather Witches!

I've recently been notified that both of my Merriweather Witch books have been reviewed. Rose at the TwoLips Reviews site wrote such lovely reviews for both The Witch and the Wolf and The Witch and the Vampire. She was kind enough to give both books a 4 1/2 kiss rating! If you have time, please check them out!