Thursday, April 17, 2014

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!

Hey Peeps!

It's been a while! So much has happened. In the last couple of months, I've snagged an agent!

I'm now represented by the lovely, awesome Sara Camilli!!!







Wait! There's more... I am pleased to announce that my second book. currently titled IF IT'S LOVE, has a new home......................with Latoya Smith and Grand Central Publishing's Forever Imprint!



YES!!! There is more!!! Not one book, but 3 BOOKS! You heard that right, a 3-book DEAL!!!! Woo HOO!!!!! I'm in the clouds!!!




AND I'm CELEBRATING!!!!!!  What better way to celebrate than to do a GIVEAWAY!!!

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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

BOOK SPOTLIGHT: Midwife to Destiny by Nana Prah

I'm pleased to have Nana Prah visiting my blog today.  She's released a new novel on the Ubuntu Line, Midwife to Destiny.  I met Nana a couple of years ago and I'm so glad!  If you love reading African romance, pick up one of Nana's books.  You won't be disappointed!!!!
 
 
 
Ubuntu Line
Midwife to Destiny

by Nana Prah

Blurb

 

Ghanaian nurse Aurora ‘Ora’ Aikins never expected to find the love of her life while on vacation in South Africa. Engaged to another and believing that love has no place in her life, she returns to Ghana, and puts duty and honor first. 

Three years later, Dr. Jason Lartey still can’t get Ora out of his mind or his heart. After learning she never married, he takes a risk and moves to Ghana hoping to rekindle what they started. His sudden appearance in Ora’s Emergency Department sends sparks flying all over again.  

They’re in the same country, working in the same hospital, and together but distance creeps between them. Can they make their destined love one for the ages?  

Midwife to Destiny

Destiny Series

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About the Author:

Nana Prah was born in Ghana, West Africa, raised in the US and currently resides in Ghana where she loves her job as a writer and nurse educator. She has been writing since she can remember (in her journal) and has been an avid reader of romance novels since the eighth grade. She has finally been able to utilize the years and years of inadvertent research into writing her own romance novels where love always conquers all.

 Contact Details:

 


Twitter: @NanaPrah


 

Enjoy the following excerpt for Midwife to Destiny:

Ora focused on putting one foot in front of the other as if she were a one-year-old learning how to walk. After turning the corner and seeing the back of his head, she froze. She would know that head anywhere. He’d grown his hair out a little, but his adorable, Will Smith ears gave him away. Initiating the process of pivoting and sprinting out of the ED unnoticed sprang to mind when he turned around and his gaze caught hers.
 
The air became charged with tension and neither of them moved. Her heart threatened to pop out of her chest with the force of each beat. The nurses stood between them, looking back and forth as if they watched a tennis match. They didn’t bother to hide their expressions of curiosity.
 
They’d never seen Ora behave in such a manner. Not cool as a cucumber super nurse. Like herself, they kept looking at the new doctor just because of his tall, broad-shouldered, gorgeous stature. The past three years had matured him, adding a few lines around his eyes and the new feature of a goatee with a moustache changed his countenance a little. But otherwise, the same man she’d met three years ago, at least in the physical sense, stood before her.

After an eternity, Ora snapped back to attention. “Akwaaba, Dr. Lartey. Welcome to the ward.” Madam Professional stuck out her hand for a handshake.
 
Her words seemed to drag him out of his own stupor. “Uh….”
 
She had rendered the man speechless. Ora’s gracious nature—that’s what she blamed it on, anyway—took pity on him and she touched his shoulder. The contact sent sensual awareness through her and she recoiled her hand.
 
“Hello, Aurora. Please forgive me. It’s just that I’m a little surprised to see you.”
 
“Not as much as I am,” she muttered, attempting to squash both the joy bubbling up inside of her at seeing him again and the overwhelming sadness of what she’d been missing for so long.
 
“Pardon me?” he asked.
 
“I didn’t expect to see you here. It’s a surprise to me, too.” She tried to smile, but it came out contorted, as if she’d been able to have a painful, rocky bowel movement after being constipated for seven days.

 
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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Book Spotlight: Lights Out by Melissa Groeling

Picture this... A group of fun women, a hot waiter, and... a gravy boat!  LOL  Get your minds out of the gutter.  Every time I think of my trip to New York last April, I can't help but smile.  And today I'm welcoming one of the ladies I met on in person on that unforgettable trip!  Melissa Groeling has released her second novel, LIGHTS OUT!!! 

 
 


Even when the lights are out, he can still see you…

          Paul Holten’s profession doesn’t leave much room for doubt or conscience but he’s reaching his breaking point. The nightmares are getting worse, the jobs are getting harder to finish and the volatile relationship with his boss, Aaron, is falling apart. Now faced with the possibility of an impending death sentence, Paul makes the fatal decision to run. Drawn into one hellish situation after another, he’s forced to confront his dark past---and wonder if perhaps dying isn’t the better option.

 

 Excerpt

They had to get out of there—and fast—but he couldn’t see a thing…

Jesus, it was dark.

It was disorienting in its completeness, in its total lack of light. In his lifetime, Paul had had his sight temporarily taken from him many times. Mostly by people who didn’t want to be looked at or identified if—God forbid—something went wrong. But there had always been some degree of light leaking through the blindfold or a shift in someone’s hand that was clamped tightly over his eyes, or the loose weaves in a rut-sack that was tied around his head. He’d always been able to see something.

This, however, was like the deepest part of the ocean. This was like having his eyes glued shut. This was what it meant to be blind.

The air grew colder and with that came the struggle to breathe. He didn’t know if it was claustrophobia but it came pretty damn close. His chest hurt and his throat felt like someone was cramming cotton into his mouth. He tried to breathe more slowly, to at least calm the thundering in his rib cage, but the darkness around him fed the panic that was skating through his bones. The stones beneath his fingers were wet in some places and icy in others and, under his feet, things crunched and squeaked like he was stepping through snow and ice.

He hoped it was snow and ice.

Echoes came from all sides of him. It was impossible to decipher one sound from the next. He wondered if people who heard voices were anything like this. Just one gigantic ball of murmuring sounds and words that didn’t make any sense.

There was a scraping sound behind him.
 
 
PURCHASE LIGHTS OUT at:  Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Smashwords, ARe
 
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About Melissa 

Melissa Groeling graduated from Bloomsburg University with a degree in English. She lives, reads and writes in the Philadelphia region and wherever else life happens to send her. She is a hardcore New York Giants fan and loves chocolate. Lights Out is her second novel to date.  

 

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Twitter: @stringbean10

 
Congrats Melissa!  To celebrate, Melissa is giving away an e copy of her novel, LIGHTS OUT, along with some awesome swag for the commenter that shares a scary moment from their past!!!!  Good luck!