tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26007106584837100392024-02-18T18:00:24.107-08:00The Conley CornerMy adventures as an Indie Author, as well as book reviews, author interviews, and more...Anne Conleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00252038587617716689noreply@blogger.comBlogger416125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600710658483710039.post-59746839479907548222020-02-12T08:11:00.002-08:002020-02-12T09:03:12.985-08:00Coming together... #OvercomingWritersBlock #Slowlybutsurely #AmWritingThings are coming together for me these days. I'm incredibly busy, but I caught myself in the bathtub just now, actually fixing a book in my head. Y'all, that hasn't happened in months, so I'm thrilled.<br />
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I don't have time to actually fix anything, but just knowing that ideas are coming to me is a good sign.<br />
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I'm working on the content edit job that never ends, but after it's done, I'll get paid, so there's that.<br />
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My personal life is looking up, so there's that, too.<br />
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Apparently my creative brain doesn't work when the rest of me is freaking out. Who knew?<br />
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So after this busy weekend is over, I'm going to finish up this content editing gig and hopefully I can do the minor tweaking that is necessary for me to fix this stinking book and get it published.<br />
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After that, I'm not sure what's on tap, but I'm sort of forcing myself to slow down a little bit this year. I have got to focus on getting my financials back in some semblance of a shape so I can feel comfortable monetarily investing in myself again. And I'm getting there. It's a process.<br />
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Did I show you the last thing I spent a bunch of money on? I had the Pierce Securities recovered, and I think they look freaking awesome. Haven't read the Pierce Securities yet? Give them a try, the first one is free!<br />
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I'm also working on audio for this series, and am up to final notes on Click's production. This is hard, because I keep hearing lots of not-so-wonderful things about ACX's audio production, but they're all I've used, and I'm so into this series that I'm afraid to start over somewhere else, I'm just hoping for the best with this and then I'll be moving on. But I'm not stopping in the middle of the series, because I'm exclusive there, and can't feasibly produce the second half of the series elsewhere...<br />
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I don't know what I want to write anymore, and I don't know how to go about it. I've spent the last six months getting my personal life/family life together, and my passion has gone by the wayside. It's terrifying, honestly.<br />
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Last year, I wrote, I published, I started a local writer's group, and I went to the gym to get healthy. But I didn't make enough money to feed my family. Or even myself. (I've just done my taxes, I know exactly how much I made). I had to buy a car, I was paying for braces. Life didn't stop because I couldn't afford it.<br />
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I sank a ton of money into advertising that didn't work. I invested in conferences that didn't immediately pay off. I spent all sorts of (tax deductible, thank GOD) money into my passion, and it wasn't paying off.<br />
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So, instead of clinging to the mast of a sinking ship, I got a job.<br />
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A couple, actually.<br />
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My plans changed.<br />
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And now, I'm giving myself a reprieve. I'm forgiving myself for the failures. And I'm starting over.<br />
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Not sure how, or what I will do differently, but I'm totally starting over somehow.<br />
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I'm taking care of myself, finding a routine, and gaining balance. It's different, but it's happening, slowly but surely.<br />
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I'm still going to write in the genre I've been writing in, but slower. And I'm thinking about some new ideas that I want to try as well.<br />
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Stay tuned for something different.<br />
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Anne Conleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00252038587617716689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600710658483710039.post-37935197033473452192019-11-06T06:30:00.000-08:002019-11-10T05:29:42.465-08:00Something NEW from Anne Conley! #NEWSERIES #RomanticSuspence #SexyCowboysThis week was the official cover reveal for Anne Conley's newest series, but because she's technologically challenged, her scheduling didn't work. Wait until you guys sink your teeth into these bad boys.<br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Some things never go as planned. Nannette’s artistic retreat began with disaster. She’s distracted by a blazing-hot firefighter who thinks she needs a knight in shining armor. And her precious masterpieces have turned into combustible images of her hero.</span></div>
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</span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What is she supposed to do?</span> </div>
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</span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Jude is rethinking everything he’s ever thought about love and desire, and Nannette is the ignition point. The colored swatches of their need are too brilliant to be contained on canvas, and neither of them know how to deal with the embers of desire when they burst into flames.</span></div>
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</span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Things are heating up to dangerous levels. And then he sees her.</span> </div>
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</span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Zane can admit it was a disastrous one. But the odd case of Lettie is one he’s determined to explore. If the stubborn woman would just give him a second chance, she’d see they are explosive together.</span> </div>
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</span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One kiss tells Lettie</span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> exactly </i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">how things are going to go in a relationship. The lip-lock with Zane is a non-starter, but he won’t take no for an answer. He even opens his home to the shelter animals as she struggles to clean up the smoke damage from the most recent arson fire.</span> </div>
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</i> <i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Have dog, will love”</i><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">has to count for something, right? But as Lettie fights to extinguish the sizzling attraction, Zane continues to show her just how well he can create an inferno.</span></div>
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</span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Logan doesn’t do repeats. Ever. It’s a cardinal rule he must live by. Katie was a mistake—one he never would have made if he knew she lived in Pamona Gulch. It would have saved him the slow and steady burn of his lust for the last two years. The need to take Katie back under hand … and command … is stronger than ever now.</span></div>
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</span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With Logan, Katie learned things about herself she’d never known. How desire could be a precision-cut diamond forged in the hottest temperatures. How guided mastery could lead her to unattainable heights. And now she’s left in the cold, running to find that same high.</span></div>
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</span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Desire flares when Logan saves her. What’s between them is undeniable, but with the arsonist caught and anger sparking, will it snuff out what’s growing, or will it only add fuel to the fire?</span></div>
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This Redhead LOVES Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03028129101555835208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600710658483710039.post-72829374180158699772019-08-23T11:03:00.001-07:002019-08-23T11:03:56.445-07:00Audiobooks, new covers, and stories, OH MY!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCO-Q3K55jxncoFSjVScwnT1sp6oUHVoM-0W0qLbpPA05FBMn3t_KULpbRhwlz1_C2EOBpkH8epabu_nRuC-R1nmGNQFiDHL8MpZwfqh2J6UpZHGxuV60u8yeN_Dc_Gb4rs1ca_6lizS4/s1600/wireforaudioforreal.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCO-Q3K55jxncoFSjVScwnT1sp6oUHVoM-0W0qLbpPA05FBMn3t_KULpbRhwlz1_C2EOBpkH8epabu_nRuC-R1nmGNQFiDHL8MpZwfqh2J6UpZHGxuV60u8yeN_Dc_Gb4rs1ca_6lizS4/s320/wireforaudioforreal.jpg" width="320" /></a><br />
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So... This is happening... The rest of Pierce Securities is going into audio. In addition to that, they're getting a facelift! A spin-off series!<br />
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Basically, Pierce is getting a new voice, new look, and new stories.<br />
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A few months ago, I reached out to a lovely man by the name of Warren Zemon, who agreed to narrate the rest of the Pierce Securities series, in addition to going back after he's finished and re-narrating <a href="https://amzn.to/2L48KCW" target="_blank">Craze</a> so we can hopefully do a boxed set in audio. Wouldn't that be cool?<br />
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I love his voice. He sounds so kind, smexy, and really really smooth. I listened all last weekend to him reading my words, and holy cow was that an experience. With the entire series going into the Romance Escapes, I think you guys will have a great experience with this series.<br />
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Also, I've decided to update the covers, to go along with a new spin-off series that I'm doing to bring y'all some more stories for this series. So be looking for something new from your boys, soon.<br />
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And that brings me to the spin-off portion of my little spiel...<br />
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Yup. Some of them are moving. There is a set of brothers whose parents live in Montana, and they've got to go see them, right? Getting caught up in the romance of the area (and a little family responsibility), they decide to stay and open their own company, Rocco Securities. They end up hiring a few cowboys to seed their personnel, because I've always wanted to write cowboy books, but never had the nerve, so I'm jumping in, lasso flailing.<br />
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I did have to get a day job to continue writing, but so far, so good! I have the rough draft of the next Pierce book, the first Rocco book is undergoing revisions, and Wire is being reviewed by Audible's ACX dept for publication. Warren is starting Click in October! (I have a plan for more Breast Cancer donations during the release of that one, so stay tuned for that.) I'm in deep discussions with my cover designer at Book Wiz regarding the new look for the Pierce and Rocco boys.<br />
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So many things are happening! 2020 will be the year of Pierce and Rocco! Hold on tight!<br />
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My newsletter subscribers get the most up-to-date news, so if you're looking for more ways to hear from me, <a href="https://app.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/j6e4j8" target="_blank">sign up</a>!Anne Conleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00252038587617716689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600710658483710039.post-6740505584231640632019-08-16T06:00:00.000-07:002019-08-16T06:00:14.771-07:00<div style="text-align: center;">Hunt for Love is LIVE!!! The Book B!tches, book #3 is HERE!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="text-align: center;">Kristie Hunt has it all: her dream job, a fiancé she loves, and her b!tches to keep her sane. The ongoing mysteries of Mystic have forced her to push her job to the back burner. When her life flips upside down, Kristie snaps. Thankfully, there’s somebody to help hold her together.</div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="text-align: center;">Jessie Burgess has come to Mystic to translate a diary Kristie found. It’s the discovery of a lifetime and will help lend him legitimacy in a family that has become a cliché. Of course, the sexy blond goddess in charge of the exhibit isn’t hard to look at, and he doesn’t mind being the shoulder Kristie leans on while she sorts out the mess with her ex.</div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="text-align: center;">They’re just messing around—Kristie’s come off something serious, and Jessie’s not looking for another woman to try to change him—but when Kristie’s life is targeted, he realizes how much he truly cares for her.</div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="text-align: center;">Welcome to Mystic, Texas, where the past stays alive in more ways than one.</div></span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Here's an excerpt, for you reading pleasure!</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .25in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Comanche regard valor and bravery above all else. When we see something we want, we take it, and we fight like hell to keep it.” <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .25in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The intensity in his eyes as he spoke those words sent a shiver of anticipation down her spine, leaving a pool of heat in her panties. She crossed her legs and ignored the tingles erupting across her skin as his eyes continued flashing at her.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .25in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kristie could read into his words but decided not to. She chose to believe he was speaking about the woman who’d written the journal and the man who’d taken her. She didn’t want to believe that Jesse had seen her, wanted her, and was going to fight like hell to keep her. That would complicate things. A lot.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .25in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Kristie swallowed against the rising lust in her throat. Feeling awkward, she shifted in her seat, touching his thigh. A self-satisfied smile flickered across his features and he lowered his head.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .25in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Well, did you get anything translated last night?” Eager to change the subject, she watched him shuffle some sheets of paper.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .25in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ignoring the brush of his hand against hers, she took the proffered papers as he pulled a pair of glasses from his satchel. He read aloud from the document and paused to transpose it onto his laptop.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .25in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Okay, Jesse in glasses? She was doomed. Truly doomed. She desperately tried to come up with a reason not to launch herself at this man and finally managed to remember Shane coming out of the room where he’d fucked his secretary at a funeral.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .25in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">But the glasses. And the biceps. And the long, dark hair. And the air of power.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .25in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jesse was talking to himself. And it was wholly distracting.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .25in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The words were a husky murmur in a language of harsh consonants and excessive grunting. Coming from Jesse, it was pure eroticism washing over her skin and leaving her flushed.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .25in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Holy shit. She honestly didn’t see how she was supposed to actually work like this.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .25in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Swallowing and hoping her words weren’t about to sound rude, she cleared her throat. “Do you have to read it aloud?”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .25in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">His eyes twinkled. Did he know his voice reading in Comanche was disintegrating her panties?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .25in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“You said it yourself. This woman isn’t Comanche. Our alphabet only has eighteen letters in it, and some of those aren’t in the English alphabet at all. So yes, I do have to read it out loud to hear it and know what I’m saying. Is it a problem? I can work in another room if it would be easier for you to read.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .25in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">His eyebrows rose. 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</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="text-align: center;">Vanessa Power, a budding Indie Romance author, believes the town is calling her name, being the new life and fresh start she’s craving. She’s met an amazing group of women who have a regular book club, reading only Indie Authors. Unfortunately, her new house is in worse shape than she thought and holds more mysteries than she’s prepared for. And then there’s the handyman.</div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="text-align: center;">Linc Ward holds more mysteries than her house and the town combined, with a past he won’t reveal in a package which is built for nothing short of sin. </div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="text-align: center;">Linc is captivated by his new boss, the only person in town who will give him a job, but only because she doesn’t know he’s an ex-con. Can he keep his past locked away, while at the same time indulging in his fantasies with the pleasantly curvy and deliciously sexy Vanessa? Probably not.</div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div style="text-align: center;">They are both looking for a new start in life. Will they be able to find it together? Or will something sinister keep them apart?</div></span><br />
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</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: center;">After the loss of her husband, Tiffany Masters finds herself in Mystic, a town with a past more haunted than hers. The local book club, The Book B!tches, gives her the courage to be herself without worrying about adult things, like bills, parenting, and supper. However, her new boss may be more than she can handle.</div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: center;">Nick takes pride in his business. Being the only bar owner in town has its challenges, the biggest being his new employee. Tiffany's a fireball--sexy as hell, with a temper to match--and off-limits. She's got kids; he's been there, done that, didn't care to get the t-shirt. But she brings out buried urges in him he doesn't know how to deal with.</div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br />
</span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: center;">When their heated attraction sparks a spat, the sheriff gives them an ultimatum: settle their shit or go to jail. He's got a crime to solve--a woman's dead, Wren's still missing, and there's another possible victim.</div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Anne has written her entire life and has the boxes of angst-filled journals and poetry to prove it. She’s been writing for public consumption for the past several years. She lives in rural East Texas with her husband and children in her own private oasis, where she prides herself in her complete lack of social skills, choosing instead to live with the people inside her head.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Currently, she has five romance series. Playing with Fire explores the trials and tribulations of a small team of fire fighters in the fictional mountain town of Pamona Gulch. In Pierce Securities, she gives us Ryan, Evan, Miriam, Zack, Quinten, Jordan, Hollerman, and Simon. Her favorite series, Book B!tches, is all about a group of women in Mystic, Texas who get into all sorts of shenanigans. In Stories of Serendipity, she explores real people living real lives in small town Texas in a contemporary romance setting. In The Four Winds, she chronicles God’s four closest archangels, Uriel, Gabriel, Raphael, and Michael, falling in love and becoming human.</span></div></span><br />
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New Release! This one was inspired by Hurricane Harvey, and is dedicated to all the first responders who dropped everything--jobs, family-life, missed vacations--and drove to Houston with a flat-botttom boat, and cases of water to get the people out of rising flood waters. </div>
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thought was of his proposition. She couldn’t imagine what he would want, except
sex. She wasn’t immune to his charms in that regard, but Dawn repeated her
earlier thoughts to herself. He wouldn’t want <i>just</i> sex. He looked like the sort to dissect things, talk about
feelings, put labels on what they were and shit. She wasn’t the sort who did
that type of thing. Not anymore. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Her
second thought was all about the creature comforts. She hadn’t brushed her
teeth, needed a shower, and if she ever wore this fucking body suit again, it
would be too soon. Dawn needed clean underwear in the worst way, and her bed
screamed at her from where it sat across town.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And she
wanted to look at the laptop that had Twitch so fired up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">She sighed,
and Jackson’s gaze snapped to hers. “You said you lived by Freed Park?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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nodded, just now starting her pancakes. The buttery, syrupy batter melted on
her tongue, and she let out a small moan. Jackson stared at her with a stark
heat in his eyes that had her swallowing hard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“It’s all
underwater over there. Like, a ton of water.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">She ate
another bite, shoveling it down because it tasted amazing. She honestly wasn’t
hungry but didn’t know when she would get another chance to eat a meal cooked this
well. Breakfast might be all the people got. She could be relegated to granola
bars, or worse, the rest of the day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">She was
smart enough to know not to turn down perfectly good food.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">So Dawn ignored
him and cleaned her plate, letting out a soft belch when she was finished
before pushing the plate away. Jackson picked it up and threw it in the trash
in the corner before coming back to sit in the seat next to her. The air
thickened between them, and he tugged her chair closer to him, placing her
between his knees. He leaned down so they shared the same air. It was totally unnecessary
in the largish space of the room that only held the two of them, but she
allowed it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Reveled
in it, actually.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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see his greenish-gray eyes in the light of the morning. At night, they had
glittered in the darkness, but she hadn’t been able to tell what color they
were.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Dawn was
hopelessly lost in them. His sandy-blond hair was cut short on the sides, still
standing up on the top of his head, but it had been tamed a bit since last
night. And his breath smelled slightly minty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Son of a
bitch had found a toothbrush.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“I think
I can use you,” he said, breaking the pregnant silence with words that held a
double entendre she couldn’t <i>not</i>
laugh at. He blushed, and it was cuter than she cared to admit. He cleared his
throat and tried again. “Okay. I do need you, but not the way that came out.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">She
sighed, angry at her curiosity for rearing its head. She just <i>knew</i> she was going to get in too deep
with this guy. Dawn could feel it in her gut.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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angst-filled journals and poetry to prove it. She’s been writing for public
consumption for the past several years. She lives in rural East Texas with her
husband and children in her own private oasis, where she prides herself in her
complete lack of social skills, choosing instead to live with the people inside
her head.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Currently, she has five romance series. Playing with Fire explores the trials and
tribulations of a small team of fire fighters in the fictional mountain town of
Pamona Gulch. In Pierce Securities, she gives us Ryan, Evan, Miriam, Zack,
Quinten, Jordan, Hollerman, and Simon. Her favorite series, Book B!tches, is
all about a group of women in Mystic, Texas who get into all sorts of shenanigans.
In Stories of Serendipity, she explores real people living real lives in small
town Texas in a contemporary romance setting. In The Four Winds, she chronicles
God’s four closest archangels, Uriel, Gabriel, Raphael, and Michael, falling in
love and becoming human.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span>Anne Conleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00252038587617716689noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600710658483710039.post-24451818747364190642019-01-24T08:50:00.002-08:002019-01-24T09:01:27.186-08:00Selling booksI've been needing to blog for a while, struggling with a topic. This morning, it came to me, so bear with me while I slog through the miasma that is my brain and attempt to say something coherent.<br />
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I get questions all the time about how to sell books. I'll get PM's on facebook, conversations at my local pub, or random tweets, asking me how I'm so successful, what part of me is a machine that allows me to make a living off my book sales.<br />
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It's not just one thing, and my definition of success is so different from these people that call me successful. If I were really successful, would I have this desperate NEEEEED to sell more books to pay for this car I just bought because my old one D-I-E-D? Maybe. Maybe not.<br />
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I realized that it's not a selling books thing, it's a SALES thing.<br />
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To sell anything, from books to the latest herbal supplement, to makeup, to cars and houses, there is one common factor.<br />
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Hunger.<br />
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I'm not talking a physical hunger, a gnawing pain in your belly. No. It's a level of frantic desperation that equates itself to the buyer as a NEED from you to SELL them something. It makes the buyer NEED to BUY from YOU.<br />
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In my business, it's a clear understanding of what I want from them: to buy MY books. Not Jane Doe's. Not that Jane Doe is a bad person, or a bad writer, but maybe Jane Doe hasn't done all the homework, she doesn't know exactly how many books she has to sell to feed her kids mac n cheese, how many more books she needs to sell to feed them a hamburger casserole, and how many MORE books she needs to sell to feed them crab legs on Fridays.<br />
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Maybe Jane doesn't know where to go to sell books? Maybe she doesn't know the rule of three. For every three people that you talk to about your book (or show your book in a newsfeed), ONE will think about buying it. Now, you have to know your audience for this to work, because it doesn't work at all if you're selling romance books and talking to mystery readers. <br />
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Maybe it's something else? Maybe Jane just hasn't done any homework? Maybe she doesn't have a newsletter list? Or a website? Or friends to bounce ideas off? But I think Jane doesn't know her numbers.<br />
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Not only do I know this, I have strategies to sell this number of books every month. These strategies vary from month to month. If something isn't working for me to feed my kids crab legs, hopefully, I will catch it in time to change it before the month is over because it may not work at all next month.<br />
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I'm about to come up on my six year publishing anniversary. In that six years, I've seen things work that no longer work for anyone (hello, G+?). I'm constantly trying new things, though, so that when what's working now quits working, I have options.<br />
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Because I'm hungry. No, I just had a protein shake, but there's a frantic feeling inside me to sell books. In fact, I haven't written new words in MONTHS because I've been working on my marketing. I have taken a marketing class through RWA, and am implementing those strategies to add to my arsenal. I'm getting ready to publish a new book. I'm MARKETING because I'm hungry. I'm a writer, first and foremost. But if I don't market these books to sell, there's absolutely no point in trying to make a living from selling.<br />
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Go take a class, make some new friends to talk marketing with (not just hey, retweet my stuff, although that's a part of it, but LISTEN to what they're doing, and figure out how to implement it.), don't be scared to try new things, and don't have a defeatist attitude, give some stuff away, do ALL the things, because eventually, something will work. Be hungry. Tell your readers to buy your stuff because Jane Doe doesn't know how hungry she is. She's written the pretty words, and shoved her book in buyer's faces, but she's not intentional about it.<br />
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Be intentional. If something isn't working (how many times really, can you retweet that tweet?) find something else. Facebook ads, group takeovers on facebook, a bargainbooksy, spend some time on *gulp* goodreads or bookbub. Explore, figure out what can do something for you. Then spend some time doing it. This is not a business where you can publish a book and expect your friends to buy it and then retire. You have to work for it.<br />
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When I get the inevitable question, "How can I sell more books?" I'll always ask, what they're currently doing to sell books. They'll tell me Blog Tours or nothing, I don't know where to start.<br />
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It's daunting, yes. But throwing your money at something that isn't working won't sell your books. Do your research. Figure out what others are doing (but don't just ask them to tell you their secrets, that's mean). I once heard someone equate it to a cockpit, and each tool is a button on your dash. Facebook ads. Reader group parties. Newsletter. Others' newsletters. Freebooksie or Bargainbooksie. Bookbub. These are all buttons. The goal is to have as MANY buttons to push as possible.<br />
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Go forth. Get hungry. Find your buttons.<br />
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And if you want to join in my Facebook party for my six-year publiversary, feel free to join my reader group: <a href="https://conleycorner.blogspot.com/2019/01/selling-books.html">https://conleycorner.blogspot.com/2019/01/selling-books.html</a><br />
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Much fun is to be had. :)Anne Conleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00252038587617716689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600710658483710039.post-64582735976713557322018-12-07T10:00:00.000-08:002018-12-07T10:00:01.057-08:00Guest Post ~ Ciara Ballintyne ~ Tangled Lights and Silent Nights<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-AU">Meet Alloran – the fantasy equivalent of a mad scientist, whose stock in trade is magic, not science. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">I conceived of Alloran after reading <i>The Accidental Sorcerer</i> by K.E. Mills. The main character in that book has a friend, Monk Markham, who is a brilliant wizard constantly dabbling in things he shouldn’t—and getting away with it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">And I thought—<i>but what if he didn’t? </i>What if his hubris had consequences?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">Poor Alloran has been plagued with mishaps, and in <i>The Seven Circles of Hell</i> he stumbles from disaster to disaster, in each book trying to put right what he made wrong in the last. Maybe he should just stop. Maybe it’s time to call it quits. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">But he has itchy fingers, and he can’t put a puzzle down once he’s picked it up—and what’s a poor wizard to do when his best friend is on the loose, trying to destroy him, and, incidentally, the world?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">Events all started a long time ago in a galaxy… I mean, just a long time ago. Alloran is more than a hundred years old, and when we meet him in <i>Confronting the Demon</i>, he’s abandoned his research and has committed himself to a life of carousing. Because if you don’t behave seriously, people can’t expect you to solve serious problems, right?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">It seems like a sensible decision—if you are addicted to something bad, the general wisdom is to give it up. But Alloran gets sucked back in when he’s framed for summoning demons and winds up on the run while someone is murdering his friends.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">So that’s how he got back into magic. But why did he quit in the first place?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">Alloran was the man who discovered how to open gates into hell—which is why everyone thinks he summoned the one in <i>Confronting the Demon</i>. His research was burned and demon summoning banned, so who else could it be? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">That first ill-fated foray into the hells, what was to be Alloran’s crowning glory, turned into a disaster that made him the man we meet in <i>Confronting the Demon</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">When I was asked to write a Christmas story for <i><a href="http://books2read.com/TangledLights" target="_blank">Tangled Lights and Silent Nights</a></i>, my first thought was ‘how do you write a Christmas story in the epic fantasy genre?’ Then when I gave it some more thought, I realised I had a story that needed telling, that some readers had been asking for—the story of that first imp he summoned from hell, that started events in motion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">"Another Bloody Festival" </span><span lang="EN-AU">is <i>that</i> story—how it all went terribly wrong for Alloran—set against the backdrop of the winter solstice—because is there a better time of year for a demon to be loose in the halls?</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">She holds degrees in law and accounting, and is a practising financial services lawyer. In her spare time, she speculates about taking over the world – how hard can it really be? If she could be anything, she’d choose a dragon, but if she is honest she shares more in common with Dr. Gregory House of House M.D. – both the good and the bad. She is a browncoat, a saltgunner, a Whedonite, a Sherlockian, a Ringer and a Whovian… OK, most major geek fandoms. Her alignment is chaotic good. She is an INTJ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-AU">The Seven Circles of Hell<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Polarity, the main character in my novel <i>Polarity in Motion</i>, is only 16, and she’s in love with Ethan. He’s the character who helps her figure out how her nude picture showed up on the Internet—a photo that she has no memory of posing for. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sometimes when teenagers say they’re in love, we think it’s just a crush or hormones. But Polarity says, nope, it’s not a passing teen thing. She’s in love. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When I want to get a deeper understanding of a character, I use a writers’ technique of interviewing the character. “Dear Polarity,” I wrote. “Why do you think you’re in love with Ethan? Possibly you’re just grateful to him. After all, he helped you put your life back together after the nude picture fiasco. Or maybe you just have a crush on him—he is so hot!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Polarity’s answer surprised me and warmed my heart. She not only explained why she loves him, but she went beyond the question I had posed, and described “the moment I knew I would love Ethan forever.” Her answer became the short story by the same title in <i><a href="https://books2read.com/TangledLights" target="_blank">Tangled Lights and Silent Nights</a></i>. And the segment is also in the next Polarity book, <i>Polarity in Love</i>, which will be released in 2019.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What was the moment she knew she’d love him forever? It happens during Christmas season in south Texas and involves a rattlesnake and a ten-year-old girl’s tears. In an incident that both horrifies and amazes Polarity, she sees deeper dimensions of Ethan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lettie has always believed a kiss will determine how the relationship will go. Her disastrous lip-lock with Zane is a strong indication she's not moving forward with him. He won't take no for an answer, though, and does the sweetest things to change her mind, including opening his home to over fifty animals while she cleans up the smoke damage at the local shelter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The theory had developed in high school. It was a good theory, but she’d had to test it out and actually date the guys she’d kissed to carry the experiment through. Thomas had been a careless kisser, as well as a careless lover, and had certainly been careless with her financial well-being. She wasn’t even going to think about her emotional stuff during their relationship.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">His soft lips molded perfectly to hers as he moved his mouth across hers. That was nice. It might undo the first strike again. He angled her head so he could slant his mouth over hers, and his tongue pressed against her lips.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Anne Conleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00252038587617716689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600710658483710039.post-75624623965973393242018-09-23T10:34:00.000-07:002018-09-23T10:34:15.422-07:00Villains, and why we should love them.Bad guys come up a lot in romance novels. If you're writing Romantic Suspense or something else that requires a bad guy, without a villain, it's pretty pointless, yes? What makes a good villain? The fact the villain <i>can</i> be good, or at least has some good in him.<br />
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Villains are bad to the bone, right? But there has to be something inside them that's not bad. Something real, tangible, for the reader to hold on to, some hope of his redemption. There is the conflict with a great bad guy.<br />
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When we read a newspaper article about some senseless act of violence, our natural reaction is to ask, "Why?" isn't it?<br />
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Google is full of lovable villains: The Joker, Hans Gruber, Keyser Soze, both of the Terminators (those confused looks are just precious, aren't they?)<br />
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Look at Lord Voldemort. A quintessential bad guy, but we love him. Why? There's something there to like. His background and the reason he is evil, the fact he's a half-blood, even though one of his main goals is to have a pure race of wizards. And let's not forget he's played by Ralph Feinnes. He is a fleshed out character in and of his own right, in JK Rowling's fascinatingly backwards way of telling his story.<br />
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Another villain we love to hate is Freddie Krueger. Okay, not everybody loves him, but die-hard horror fans usually have a soft spot for this burned, witty, misunderstood slasher. Born to a victim of rape (his mother, a nurse in a lunatic asylum having survived overnight in a room filled with maniacs, who brutalized her for hours), bullied as a child, he tried to have a normal life with a wife and child of his own. But ended up succumbing to his own illness and turned to torturing and killing children himself. Now, most of this is told after the first movie, where he found his initial fame through his scarred visage and interesting implements of fear and torture, the knife fingers. But he could have been a normal guy, right? If it hadn't been for the bullying, the circumstances of his conception, or his mental illness. By the way, if you haven't noticed, most of these slasher/horror bad guys have a backstory that comes out sometime in the second movie, so the viewer can hold on to something to make them like the bad guy.<br />
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Okay, that was far out there. Let's do Dracula, instead. He seduces his victims with his charm, he has the ability to live forever (who the hell would really want that, that in and of itself is pitiful), and his survival depends on the death of others. Not that it makes him <i>likeable</i> per se, but it does give keep one from hating him totally. He's likeable in his charm and the circumstances which make him play into the victim profile as much as the villain.<br />
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So, what's all this about? Great bad guys have a reason to be bad. Not that they don't deserve the stake to the heart or whatever, but there's an arc to them, a resignation to their fate that comes about with their story. Someone once said every bad guy is the hero of his own story. So what's your bad guy's story?Anne Conleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00252038587617716689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600710658483710039.post-75343604665949934662018-09-11T04:59:00.000-07:002018-09-11T04:59:23.378-07:00New Release-Hide and Seek, Playing with Fire #2, plus a giveaway!<h2 style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Hide and Seek, from the author of the Pierce Securities, has readers going ga-ga!</h2><div><br />
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</div><h2 style="line-height: 200%;">Excerpt</h2>Joey was pretty sure he wasn’t the first hungover Santa ever, but even with a slight hangover, playing Santa Claus wasn’t sucking nearly as much as Joey had thought it would. <span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">He’d been pissing and moaning for nothing because, as it turned out, he was having fun.</span><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyCw5PgYFIG5SShf1Mpt3CZcPJYmY6iefhL6DmCQ8ntrwnYi1nA-gvmNYqzj62vvWyqCFGp2VBMkZ-2N5zLVYEomGKHSoR2bCO0U-n6reAsVaEPidowoeQEWj8rb1A5LrNGH6AWgmsIhU/s1600/ad2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="884" data-original-width="1600" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyCw5PgYFIG5SShf1Mpt3CZcPJYmY6iefhL6DmCQ8ntrwnYi1nA-gvmNYqzj62vvWyqCFGp2VBMkZ-2N5zLVYEomGKHSoR2bCO0U-n6reAsVaEPidowoeQEWj8rb1A5LrNGH6AWgmsIhU/s320/ad2.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">They cried a lot, but they didn’t stink. And who could blame them? He was a weird, jolly, bearded guy; the babies didn’t know he was supposed to bring them toys yet. As far as they knew, their mothers were just plopping them in his lap, standing back to take pictures, and laughing at how cute they were while they were freaking out. He would be mad too.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">He was wrestling with one particularly strong infant, making helpless shushing noises, when he got a whiff of the top of its head. <i>Damn. Somebody should bottle that smell.</i> It was certainly lowering his blood pressure. As he breathed in the scent of the baby as he held it against his chest, it quieted down, snuffling and rooting around in his giant, furry coat. The baby found its fingers, stuffing them into its mouth, and looked up at him. Joey thought for a second he had conquered it until its eyes squinted, it opened its mouth, and an ear-splitting wail pierced his ears.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Have you been good this year?”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnYdkR8IQ1CDBJdUAOcw_CJaL4pZfksKJdyKXEPqp460IGOQyG4w81YBq2XIJLu4FWB_jFvWxR3KrXmuWa8EnOH_TmKe-eFAQC-zCDeRaKpw6B3w3GY-60eFEHLtng_cJHlnfinLPOeKg/s1600/teaser+HaS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1600" height="153" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnYdkR8IQ1CDBJdUAOcw_CJaL4pZfksKJdyKXEPqp460IGOQyG4w81YBq2XIJLu4FWB_jFvWxR3KrXmuWa8EnOH_TmKe-eFAQC-zCDeRaKpw6B3w3GY-60eFEHLtng_cJHlnfinLPOeKg/s320/teaser+HaS.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Is she here?” He couldn’t resist. He wanted to see her again, and if she were here, that would be perfect. Maybe she wouldn’t recognize him dressed as Santa. Maybe he could do a little kissing under the mistletoe. Okay, his imagination got away with him on that one, but as he followed the tiny finger pointing to a woman standing not too far away, watching intently with an eyebrow raised, he saw she was in fact the very same Vivian, dressed casually in jeans and a sweater.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">When a child’s game goes delightfully wrong, Jude finds himself rethinking his current status quo. Jude finds himself strangely looking to Annette to make sense of his own life.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Annette is trying not to get distracted by the sexy firefighter, but when her artistic retreat begins in disaster, Jude’s playing the hero she can’t ignore. Suddenly, her artwork is completely changed with Jude’s exquisite lines transforming her landscapes.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal">Up until now, their life was like a notebook full of doodles, but it’s turning into a full-fledged art showing, and neither of them know how to deal with the embers of desire when they ignite into flames.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">She walked through the cabin, taking stock. The first thing she noticed was it was rustic, and had one room, an open plan divided down the middle. An enormous brass bed was in the back corner, divided by a half wall that separated the bed/kitchen area from the living room. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Next to the bed, along the back wall, was a row of cabinets and countertops broken only by a sink for washing up and two large windows that exposed a breathtaking view. A butcher block island and a refrigerator, along with a coffee pot, seemed almost like decorations instead of necessities in the spartan room.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On the other side of the half wall was the living area with a couch, a couple of old recliners that looked more like homes to creatures than comfortable seating areas, and giant wood stove. Annette looked closer and noticed it had removable burners on top, which meant this was her stove for the week. She’d only cooked on a wood-burning stove once, at Luke’s deer camp, with horrific results. <i>Oh well.</i> She shrugged to herself. Fine dining was not a priority at the moment. She’d gotten Drake to leave, she just needed to get the cabin set up and she could get to work. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_mvbWsTNy9b7Spc142rEIZ_t-N85xOebR23WbyPCC7LRGYYy_xz-XAh2UFzB2nQrCot-NTxdSbPk2oLxdeQKxrH1QfM12oJ3Co9wJRW-G6yHLoWi4CAHjKHYAgj6aSmu5j9isU7Rrys0/s1600/TruthorDare_all9.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_mvbWsTNy9b7Spc142rEIZ_t-N85xOebR23WbyPCC7LRGYYy_xz-XAh2UFzB2nQrCot-NTxdSbPk2oLxdeQKxrH1QfM12oJ3Co9wJRW-G6yHLoWi4CAHjKHYAgj6aSmu5j9isU7Rrys0/s320/TruthorDare_all9.jpeg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Aside from the recliners, the furnishings were old yet warm. Patchwork quilts covered the bed, there was an afghan the back of the sofa, and a closet held more blankets, towels, a stack of board games, cold weather gear, and a locked box. The bathroom was utilitarian yet had everything she would need, including running water.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It was cold, so she went outside to gather wood for a fire in the stove.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Huh.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There wasn’t much. Scratch that. There was a ton of huge logs she had no hope of picking up and carrying inside, despite the fact they wouldn’t fit inside the barrel-bellied stove anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">She stifled the silent alarm that rose inside her as she looked at the sky. It was clear-blue with a few fluffy clouds. It looked gorgeous, but she didn’t know much about mountain weather. She’d moved here from the piney woods of east Texas. It rarely snowed there, much less was a way of life.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">November on a mountain was a different story. She went back inside and looked in the wood stove, pleased to see there was a small fire already stacked. But how long would it last with no wood?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">With a heavy sigh, she went over to the bed—where Drake had left her things before driving back down the mountain—and grabbed another sweater to put on. She would save the wood until she was nearly frozen, then start breaking up furniture, she supposed. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Annette opened the refrigerator to find a bottle of ketchup and a jar of mustard, and two cans of Bud Light.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The pantry was much the same way, but the spice cabinet was full. A snort left her lips. She could use it to flavor the mustard.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Was she supposed to freaking starve out here all alone in addition to freezing to death?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Thanks a lot, Drake,” she muttered to herself while she stalked to her cell phone to call him.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">No service.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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Truth or Dare, the first in a new series, Playing with Fire, by Anne Conley!</div>
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Cover Art: James Price with AEP Designs</div>
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Cover Model: Stanley Fields</div>
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Photographer: Jeffrey Todd Photography</div>
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Publish Date: August 21st, 2018</div>
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game goes delightfully wrong, Jude finds himself rethinking his current status
quo and begins looking to Annette to make sense of his own life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is trying not to get distracted by the sexy firefighter, but when her artistic
retreat begins in disaster, Jude’s playing the hero she can’t ignore. Suddenly,
her artwork is completely changed with Jude’s exquisite lines transforming
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Up until now,
their life was like a notebook full of doodles, but it’s turning into a full-fledged
art showing, and neither of them know how to deal with the embers of desire
when they ignite into flames.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jude let out a hiss of air, probably because the paint was cold, but it made his nipples stand out, a stark relief against the flat disks on his chest. She traced the ridges of his abdomen with strokes of color that stood out against his tanned skin. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The bristles of the brush loved Jude’s skin, flattening and molding to it, leaving color in their wake. It was glorious, the way her hand was working the brush.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">His jeans hung low, and Annette held her breath as she outlined the line that went down the outside of the abdominal ridges, leading into the miraculous “V” that ended with the jutting </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Moving back up his body, she painted his collarbone, his neck, his Adam’s apple, then stood back and looked at him, trying to imprint the picture in her mind. Grabbing her sketchbook to ground herself, Annette quickly drew the lines, transposing them from Jude to paper so she could look at them later.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">His eyes were dark and intense, like a caged beast was inside him desperate to be let loose. Not finished with her work for the day, she tried to ignore that thought.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">She made a quick sketch of Jude’s torso lines and looked at him again. He hadn’t moved and was still looking at her intently. A shudder of need slammed into her, but she still required something more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anne Conleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00252038587617716689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600710658483710039.post-13048724353635240672018-06-24T10:24:00.001-07:002018-06-24T10:24:49.381-07:00Summer Blues<br />
I always, always, always underestimate how busy my summers are going to be when making my yearly plan. I treasure my time with my family and want to make the most of it. I always realize this is a prime working time, since I don't have to stop and pickup/drop off children and run them various places.<br />
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But I have an inane desire to keep them busy during the summer months, so they don't become vegetables. I love to hear them laugh, see them smile, and do things with them. I love that I have a job that allows me to do these things, and I don't want them being grown ups and singing Cat's in the Cradle with not so fond memories of their mom who never had time for them.<br />
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It honestly doesn't seem like that much on paper. Not to me, anyway, but holy cow it fills up the days. Add in the fact that most of the people I work with (editor/formatter/PA/etc) are night owls and productive in the PM hours, I'm still on my phone answering PMs or emails while I'm supposed to be being present for my kids.<br />
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It's that time of the season where the gilt has worn off and we're not super excited to be spending time together anymore. My trips out of the house are met with rolling eyes more than anything else (especially at the idea of "active time").<br />
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I've had to institute a rule of no electronics after eleven and the kids are on the honor system with that, since I'm barely conscious at that time of day. They are awake several hours after I go to bed, hence the quiet morning time I get to work.<br />
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Stress from these releases is starting to build. I have a release in August, and it's ready to go. The one in September is almost ready. The one in November will be. The one for October? Not even finished. And stuff is piling up. I'm about to get Girlspawn on the release events, but that is all time consuming for me because as much as she's the digital generation, she hasn't spent much time on the practical side of things. I've had to teach her how to send emails, create folders on her laptop, organize files, etc. Knowing I'll have to walk her through the release stuff too is daunting, even though I know it will pay off in the end (hopefully).<br />
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Anyway, this summer is busier than most, even though I wouldn't trade a second of it.<br />
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Next week, I'll have some release info for anyone who's paying attention. I'm super excited about these firefighters, and I hope you guys are too.Anne Conleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00252038587617716689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600710658483710039.post-82916727095921849432018-05-30T11:52:00.002-07:002018-05-30T11:52:35.071-07:00New projectsWow. It's been so long since I blogged about anything, I almost forgot what to do.<br />
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Just kidding. Not really.<br />
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I've just been super busy. I've been trying desperately to get my next project underway, I've let a lot of things slide. I'm sorry to those of you who check here semi-regularly for updates. I promise I'll get better.<br />
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So what's this new project, you ask?<br />
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I'm going to try to publish a new series, the entire series in four months, so there's minimal waiting on the readers' part. It's insanity, but I don't want to make promises I can't fulfill, so I'm trying to get it done before I start.<br />
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Yeah, that didn't make sense to me either. Let me try again.<br />
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I'm trying to get the series finished before I start releasing them. There. That's better.<br />
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I've got two of them with my editor, and am almost finished with the third to get it to her. The fourth shouldn't take too long. So far, I'm a little bit behind my schedule, but still on track to publish the first book in August.<br />
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So, without further ado, let me tell you a little bit about the series.<br />
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Jude, Joey, Zane, and Logan are firefighters in Pamona Gulch, a fictional town in the mountains of New Mexico. There's an arsonist plaguing the popular tourist destination, distracting them from finding love with these pretty ladies they meet. Have you read <a href="http://books2read.com/u/bP1Pxl" target="_blank">Fortune's Kiss</a> yet? It's sort of a prequel.<br />
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Anyway, it's four stand-alone novels with the arsonist revealed in the fourth story, each novel with it's own HEA for the couple, cuz that's how I roll. <br />
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I have other stuff going on, and hopefully will have some details soon to share, but for now, this is what you get.<br />
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Teasers and graphics coming soon!Anne Conleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00252038587617716689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600710658483710039.post-65926590568600176172018-04-02T08:23:00.001-07:002018-04-02T08:24:24.557-07:00Unedited FIRST ending to Echo. Never published. Probably a mistake to post, but here you go.<br />
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now and go back to the hotel, and only be seventy five dollars in the
hole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s totally what she <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">should</i> do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She had no plan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No skills.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span>She was messing up Simon’s plan.<o:p></o:p></div>
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No.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was helping
him.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Lacie walked up on two vehicles parked off to the side of
the road in a small clearing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Simon’s
rental was there, and another car.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
newish model VW Beetle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe his
sister’s?<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
A renewed sense of confidence she was on the right track
lifted her spirits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or maybe it was the
fresh air.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She didn’t know, maybe she’d
just gotten really good at this compartmentalism thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But she felt a sudden lightness in her step
telling her she was on the right track.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG4ePjPpKBfFRV7b7vvZfPGYyVLFbnKzW6AijuImiz3DPod6_u0mFcxzjULuwLMdIJv2iDMaab1znx9NBgnCIZSn59OLjS348bDlTdUChO3q8L_dS1sCFgp991qtomM3PIgANh_ktCtIc/s1600/echo3.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG4ePjPpKBfFRV7b7vvZfPGYyVLFbnKzW6AijuImiz3DPod6_u0mFcxzjULuwLMdIJv2iDMaab1znx9NBgnCIZSn59OLjS348bDlTdUChO3q8L_dS1sCFgp991qtomM3PIgANh_ktCtIc/s320/echo3.png" width="320" /></a>Finally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some sense
of resolution.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Until suddenly, there wasn’t.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Footsteps to her left, off in the woods, tracked her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For every step she took, a heavier, more
lumbering one matched her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She stopped,
but the steps kept on, coming closer.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
When he man revealed himself, Lacie screamed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was no man.</div>
<o:p></o:p><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
He was a demon.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
As he advanced on her, her limbs turned to jelly, and Lacie
was pretty sure she might have wet herself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But the fight or flight reflexes took over, mercifully, and she ran.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Chapter Twenty six<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Simon found the house with little trouble.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It looked ramshackle, but he of all people
knew looks could be deceiving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
watched from the tree-line for a while until he saw some movement in one of the
front windows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dumping his bag on the
ground, he pulled out his long-range radio and called Ryan.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“ETA?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“We’re about ten minutes out, maybe fifteen.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Hurry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve found
the house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t have a count, yet.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Copy that, Sarge.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
He dropped the radio and carefully, he squatted and ran, his
gun ready to fire, held at his side.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Back against the house, he risked a look inside.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Quinten was tied to a chair, unconscious and bleeding from
his face.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Somebody had used him as a
punching bag.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His lack of consciousness
was alarming, because to Simon’s knowledge, he’d never been knocked out before,
and his ability to take punches rivaled anybody he’d ever seen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he wasn’t typically tied up either.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bonnie had said he sounded drunk, so maybe he
was drugged.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Either way, it was
horrifying.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Simon looked for wires around the window, expecting to find
some sort of alarm system, but there were none.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Still, with the level of technological advancements this guy had used
with the StrongArm thing, Simon expected some sort of motion sensors or
something protecting the property.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
left the window, edging along the perimeter to peer in others.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
All were empty except one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A room, which was sort of a bedroom, except everything was chillingly
covered in washable vinyl, with a computer station set up in one corner, and a
shower in another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Simon recognized it
for what it was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A clean room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For killing.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
And his sister was in there.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
But she wasn’t alone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jonas Prestley was in a swivel office chair, looking at something on the
computer, an image of the road Simon had skirted on his way up here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So there was surveillance on the property,
but apparently, Simon had missed it.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Thank God for small favors.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT4vzTCm-dL4xmgUcBdSAx9p_bgq21FzSGlfsFb0T3nPXefbGBLxdKI31Nhz70eRM_WJ5oUiXIkcymhvWwfRz5Ik4MM5YhP2DcZaAlFXlwK2qD9N4M515_rOXwq34sOX9Nx_wiV9m9NWo/s1600/echo2.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT4vzTCm-dL4xmgUcBdSAx9p_bgq21FzSGlfsFb0T3nPXefbGBLxdKI31Nhz70eRM_WJ5oUiXIkcymhvWwfRz5Ik4MM5YhP2DcZaAlFXlwK2qD9N4M515_rOXwq34sOX9Nx_wiV9m9NWo/s320/echo2.png" width="320" /></a>Bonnie appeared to be unharmed, and pissed off, which was
good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Simon would go back and get
Quinten, and they would kick this guy’s ass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It appeared he was here alone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So, if he could get Quinten conscious, this would be a piece of cake.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Slinking back to the other window, Simon edged it open and
stepped inside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Using his knife, he
sliced through Quinten’s bindings, then went around to the front of him,
crouching between his legs.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Quinten,” he whispered, slapping his blood-slick
cheek.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Wake up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Val’s gonna kill me if you get your nose
broken again.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
His eyes fluttered open, but focused on something directly
behind Simon, just as Simon heard the loud click in the silent room of a gun
cocking near his temple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ever so slowly,
he turned his head to look down the barrel of a gun being held by his sister,
Bonnie.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Her eyes were wide and her hands shook, as Jonas held her
hair in a tight grip and a skinning knife to her throat.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Well, shit,” Simon muttered, as he stood up, his hands in
the air.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jonas grinned at him.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“So nice of you to join us, Simon.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Looking from one brother to the other, his
grin only showed joy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As if he was glad
they were all here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Have a seat.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Bonnie’s ear, he cooed, “Hand me the gun,
love, you did really well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thank
you.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now he had the gun and the knife,
shoving Bonnie toward a chair, he managed to cover them all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“You know what?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just to be on the safe side…” he mused, as
the gun wavered over toward Simon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With
a loud <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">CRACK</i> fire exploded from
Simon’s kneecap.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Fuck!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Simon gripped
his knee, as pain whitened his vision.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>His entire leg was on fire, and even as his mind tried to minimize the
injury, just a tiny lead ball in his knee cap with excruciating force, his
lungs couldn’t catch the air necessary to breathe.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Oh Excellent!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
brought your girlfriend!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>V has been
wanting to meet her.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Simon managed to
retain his vision just long enough to see Lacie being manhandled into the room
by the ugliest tattooed motherfucker he’d ever seen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then he passed out.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Chapter twenty seven<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Yoga girl!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The man
clapped his hands together, and Lacie could only assume he was the mastermind
behind all of this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But any words lodged
in her throat at the sight of Simon, ashen faced, slumped over in his chair,
with blood pouring out of his knee.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Simon!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She launched
herself at him, pressing on his knee, to keep the blood from flowing so
freely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Quinten looked on, his hands
behind his back, while his sister wept in the chair on the other side of
him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She removed her jacket and passed
it over to Lacie.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Here,” she whispered through her tears.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Fiend, tie them up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Go ahead and dress the senior Mr. Pierce’s leg.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t want him bleeding out just yet, if
you don’t mind.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzjEZyRJDfzC3kIg8XNVo4rzSGNRVLGLnAfUNzvl72mMEnr5nsbRaKLuxcf8UP9oCZ7qFLdQfC4fvI_Z_E0Xiydgih3fNuJRXZW31gbrOrWsaXfwuhbyabPLSgTpn5E_oQ8dg1XDfzm_0/s1600/teaser+one.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="814" data-original-width="614" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzjEZyRJDfzC3kIg8XNVo4rzSGNRVLGLnAfUNzvl72mMEnr5nsbRaKLuxcf8UP9oCZ7qFLdQfC4fvI_Z_E0Xiydgih3fNuJRXZW31gbrOrWsaXfwuhbyabPLSgTpn5E_oQ8dg1XDfzm_0/s320/teaser+one.jpg" width="241" /></a>The man was actually smiling at everybody, like he’d just
invited them over for beers and the game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was the weirdest thing Lacie had ever experienced.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“So, you’re just carrying on business as usual for dear old
dad?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Quinten snarled from her right
side, and a shiver of fear coursed through Lacie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The scary looking man with the red tattooed
face was tying her up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Living in Austin,
she’d seen her fair share of body art, even some of the implants to make people
look like dragons and unicorns and stuff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But never this evil looking.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
He had horns surgically implanted onto his shaved scalp, and
every inch of his skin was tattooed in the shape of a red skull.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His teeth were filed into points you could
see when he smiled, and the guy smiled a lot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Everybody here was so freakishly happy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was insane.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Meanwhile, Quinten was talking as if they all knew each
other, which lent another texture to the surrealness of the experience.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Yeah, but Dad was too short-sighted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was in it for the big bucks, whereas I saw
the future.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He spoke with the gun
trained on Quinten, obviously the biggest threat, even though he was tied up,
with his hands behind his back.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Meanwhile, V was tying her hands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She could hear his breathing echo in her ear,
as his gentle touches sent a sliver of dread across her skin, making her feel
slimy.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“I’m not hurting you, am I?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He spoke softly, intimately, and the illusion it held of familiarity was
the stuff of nightmares.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had a lisp,
and Lacie figured it was probably from a forked tongue, slithering around in
his mouth.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“No,” she managed to squeak out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“You’re not.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She had to stay on friendly terms with one of these guys, and the leader
of the two currently had his gun trained on her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Who are you?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Have we met?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Oh, I’m sorry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m
Jonas Lawrence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have yet to make your
acquaintance.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“I know him,” Bonnie spoke.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“He stalked me in college.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Apparently, I look like the sister he had some weird affair with before
she died.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Am I right?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bonnie spat at his feet, already tied to her
chair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Then my brother killed his dad,
and apparently he’s holding a grudge.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Lacie looked back over at Simon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The exchange was too much information for her
to process, and the fact that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">her</i>
boyfriend was right here, still passed out and bleeding, was freaking her out more
than a little.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Jonas advanced on her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“V may be a little in love with you.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Lacie’s eyes darted to the aptly named apparition, standing in the
shadows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“He’s been watching you for a
while.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, a lot of men have been
watching you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve made quite a bit of
cash from you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll be sad to see it go,
but there are always others.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
That’s what she was afraid of.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But she was too afraid to ask.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She didn’t really need to, as he just kept on
talking.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“They pay to watch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They pay more to get a location.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He chuckled to himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“The
attacks?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Men paid extra to see those,
even.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the women are a re-usable
commodity, until they can’t be used anymore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s brilliant?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“How did you do it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Is there a sicko website to watch the girls?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Quinten asked, fidgeting beside her.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Why yes… Yes there is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I took one of Dad’s old ideas and modified it a bit, looked for a
different clientele, edgier, more criminal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I satisfy the craving to watch, and participate.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Motioning to the tattooed devil, he said,
“Fiend, here, helps with silence motivation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Turns out, he’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">quite</i> good at
it.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Lacie threw up a little bit in her mouth, but managed to
swallow it back down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was gross, but
she didn’t want to know what would happen if she drew attention to herself that
way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Next to her, Bonnie had fallen
silent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Quinten was still struggling
behind his back and Simon began to mutter incoherently.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She wanted to go to him, badly, to apologize
to him.</div>
<o:p></o:p><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
Jonas walked over to Bonnie and yanked her up by the
hair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Well, I’m going to go have some
private time with my girl, here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I trust
Vwill keep you guys occupied.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Vsmiled at Lacie and a shiver of revulsion coursed down her
spine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Under any other circumstances,
she’d be willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, but it would be a
conscious endeavor to not judge the book by the cover.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She wouldn’t date the guy, but she wouldn’t
automatically think he was evil.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Now, though, that thought was firmly off the table.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’d chased her down in the forest, carried
her here against her will, threatened other men to not talk about how they
found out about her, had <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">watched</i> her
live her life online, and was part of Jonas’s sick plan to exploit women.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Yeah, having him make a move toward her wasn’t on her bucket
list.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But there didn’t seem to be
anything she could do about it right now.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Suddenly, Simon yelled out of nowhere.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“NOW!”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Explosions racked the house, shaking everything, and ripping
clouds of dust from nowhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bangs and
flashes disoriented her.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYfxHepGsgBdg1sNz7i2ZPIh0iLptyuIoRrjEx2C2TEfm2ZsINwkeSj5eHEVFI870m6NrybXDO8IzQCPiyHSD1WodzGVRjCLT4Q0hRLNOdDstKQvL-ctV181UcGaQzhvgUImmJ0vgoaao/s1600/ad+graphic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="480" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYfxHepGsgBdg1sNz7i2ZPIh0iLptyuIoRrjEx2C2TEfm2ZsINwkeSj5eHEVFI870m6NrybXDO8IzQCPiyHSD1WodzGVRjCLT4Q0hRLNOdDstKQvL-ctV181UcGaQzhvgUImmJ0vgoaao/s320/ad+graphic.jpg" width="320" /></a>“Get down, Lacie!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Get
down!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She threw herself to the floor,
and Simon’s body covered hers, as he fell on top of her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With a roar, Quinten was up and out of the
room through the clouds of smoke as gunfire rang out everywhere.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Then all was quiet.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Lacie’s ears rang in the silence as she could hear Simon’s
team move through the house with yells of, “All clear!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two gunshots in rapid succession and another
“All Clear,” from a woman’s voice, and a yell of “Who?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Ugliest motherfucker on the planet.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It had to be Deena Rae’s voice, and Lacie
sagged with relief.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Are you okay?” Simon asked in her ear.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
“Yes, but you’re not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We need to get you to a hospital, Simon.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
A car started outside, and Simon stiffened before yelling,
“He’s driving away with Bonnie!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Someone
stop him!”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Ryan came in the doorway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“He won’t get far.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I disabled his
alternator.”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Simon grunted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Can
we just kill the motherfucker?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />Anne Conleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00252038587617716689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600710658483710039.post-48984139542478769202018-03-26T05:08:00.000-07:002018-03-26T05:15:15.529-07:00Echo, Pierce Securities #9 #RELEASE Simon's story is here!<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Echo is HERE! Simon's long-awaited story is available for you to get on your e-reader, now! Find out why Advanced Readers are saying it's "Bittersweet," a "New Favorite," and "What a book to conclude the series with."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;">When Lacie’s father hires Pierce Securities to help her, the only person not working a job would be the boss man, Simon— a control freak who loves his rules. He’s trying to find his sister’s stalker while keeping his micromanaging eyes on all the guys in the office. He has policies in place for reasons. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;">For safety. For professionalism. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Simon did a double-take when he figured out who Quinten was referring to. “No, not her.” Lacie chose that moment to walk to her mailbox, gauzy skirt flowing in the wind. “Her,” he waved at the picture, “and her, too, <span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">prolly</span>.” He finished off his two fingers of scotch and poured two more.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“You have two choices. You can follow your own advice and keep it strictly professional, which is safe but won’t really help you man up about your issues with Tanya, or you can explore them and see how they relate.”</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD7i66QRIn3MONfKLFZjLE7SACbRnUjN5qwHD3Hy6wYpPkgypipc1ySdij3OUq1CT7TBMgoZ4msYNzyZ8G0C9kg7kMEZrYHCqDeVyeE5EPQqaelj30qfEMJEf0nxbDIRRYekwFKIM8RIM/s1600/profile+photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1067" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD7i66QRIn3MONfKLFZjLE7SACbRnUjN5qwHD3Hy6wYpPkgypipc1ySdij3OUq1CT7TBMgoZ4msYNzyZ8G0C9kg7kMEZrYHCqDeVyeE5EPQqaelj30qfEMJEf0nxbDIRRYekwFKIM8RIM/s320/profile+photo.jpg" width="213" /></a>Anne has written her entire life and has the boxes of
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consumption for the past several years. She lives in rural East Texas with her
husband and children in her own private oasis, where she prides herself in her
complete lack of social skills, choosing instead to live with the people inside
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Currently, she has five romance series. Playing with Fire explores the trials and
tribulations of a small team of fire fighters in the fictional mountain town of
Pamona Gulch. In Pierce Securities, she gives us Ryan, Evan, Miriam, Zack,
Quinten, Jordan, Hollerman, and Simon. Her favorite series, Book B!tches, is
all about a group of women in Mystic, Texas who get into all sorts of shenanigans.
In Stories of Serendipity, she explores real people living real lives in small
town Texas in a contemporary romance setting. In The Four Winds, she chronicles
God’s four closest archangels, Uriel, Gabriel, Raphael, and Michael, falling in
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<br />Anne Conleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00252038587617716689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600710658483710039.post-79448183832159146132018-03-19T10:19:00.002-07:002018-03-19T10:19:43.513-07:00#EndOfAnEra<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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You guys remember Craze? Craze is the first book in my Pierce Securities series, and I published it in April of 2015. That means I worked on it for at least a year before that. So for the last four years, the Pierce Securities books have been at the forefront of my brain. Writing them, making them better, marketing them, trying to get readers to like them as much as I do.<br />
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And now, with the release of Echo, I have other projects on my plate, and I'm done with the Pierce boys. <br />
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For now.<br />
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I won't say I'm not ever writing another Pierce story, because never say never, right? But I don't have the time, at the moment. I don't want to write Pierce stories for the rest of my life, honestly. I have other guys in my head. I've got firefighters, special forces guys, and some utter romantic beta dudes.<br />
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But I'm terrified you won't read them, because they're not Pierce guys.<br />
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There. I said it.<br />
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I'm scared.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsBleXxSjMmVVyFiVfluBkXn6j5rhY1fbi_jOmpvewRP1xf-v_R33Dg1fFTHemcDEE_ZZ1hZ4pqWjmd5a3gDB6BOPNKh1766WKXsKfWN03O3OC7l9YcgMY2KUe3ENzbLu-oDcn_JPBxSI/s1600/bond.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="985" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsBleXxSjMmVVyFiVfluBkXn6j5rhY1fbi_jOmpvewRP1xf-v_R33Dg1fFTHemcDEE_ZZ1hZ4pqWjmd5a3gDB6BOPNKh1766WKXsKfWN03O3OC7l9YcgMY2KUe3ENzbLu-oDcn_JPBxSI/s320/bond.jpg" width="196" /></a>Pierce Securities has paid my bills, put food on the table, bought my washer and dryer, my laptop, and a new mattress, in addition to copious amounts of beer over the years. <br />
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I'm scared you all won't like my firefighters as much as my securities team. I'm scared my special forces guys won't have the umph you love so much. I'm scared my romantic betas won't hold the appeal. I'm scared I won't sell any more books and I'll have to do something else with my life.<br />
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I love writing. I love making up stories and writing them down for you to read them. And I love the fact that my readers love them enough to buy them and I can make a living with what I'm passionate about. That's why I'm nervous about this release. Simon's story is it for now, for the Pierce Securities guys.<br />
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Don't get me wrong. I have other story ideas involving these men, BUT I really want to write some different stuff too. I want to finish the Book B!tches series. I want to write some NEW stuff.<br />
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But I want you to love it too.<br />
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And it's not that I don't have stories to write. I have tons of stories. Like, I would be certifiable if I didn't write them all down.<br />
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This is not a woe is me, pity fest, buy my books type of post. I just wanted to put into words how scary it is to actually end this series.<br />
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Like, what if readers don't like my smexy firemen that I've worked so hard to bring in August? I have a release plan to keep readers from getting bored waiting, and will have them release consecutively--August, September, October, and November. That's the plan anyway, and I'm working super hard to make that happen. But what if readers don't buy them? All the time I've spent is wasted.<br />
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And the Book B!tches... I'm planning on hitting them pretty hard, and getting those books out in the next two years. What if there's no point in that, and the rebranding I have planned, and all the money I spend on that series is totally wasted.<br />
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And the series that I really want to write that I haven't even started yet. <br />
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What if I'm completely obsolete and irrelevant when the Pierce Boys are done?<br />
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I'm just going to spend the rest of this Monday sobbing in a corner.Anne Conleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00252038587617716689noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600710658483710039.post-37233380718265957422018-03-12T08:23:00.005-07:002018-03-12T08:23:53.309-07:00Echo is coming sooooooon!<br />
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Simon was out of his element, and
completely out of control. He didn’t like it, but couldn’t dwell on it, as he
was surrounded by twenty-four kindergarteners, intent on painting masterpieces.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He didn’t even have time to watch
the woman, although he wished he could. After the first five awkward minutes,
where he’d tried to break the ice with his self-deprecating comments about his
suit, he’d been inundated with smelly five-year-olds.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Honestly, he’d thought Mr. Hill
wanted him on staff as security or something. He hadn’t clarified, which was
his own damn mistake. Of course Mr. Hill would want him working alongside his
daughter, in the most hands-on capacity he could.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He’d taken off the suit jacket
after one kid—Alicia?—had splattered paint on it while he was helping her rinse
her brushes. But he was afraid the dress shirt underneath was beyond repair,
even though he was wearing a tie-died apron over his clothes. Thank god his
sidearm was concealed in the holster under his shirt in the small of his back. He
have to find something different for tomorrow. He was quickly realizing these
kiddos had no concept of personal space, and he didn’t want to be the root
cause of a tragic accident. Like shooting off his own ass.<o:p></o:p></div>
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After art time, was a snack, and
Simon thought he was safe from more spills, but there he went thinking again. A
young boy accidentally sprayed Simon through the straw of his juice box, and
now Simon looked like he had a pee stain down his trouser leg. Oh well, at
least it wasn’t his best suit.<o:p></o:p></div>
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By the time lunch rolled around,
and another teacher had picked up the kids to take them to the cafeteria, Simon
was a frazzled wreck. Thankful for the relative peace of the teacher’s lounge,
Simon followed Lacie Hill like a beaten puppy dog down the hallway.<o:p></o:p></div>
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lunch, not having a clue what would happen, and needing something easy. Now,
he’d wished he had a shot of scotch instead.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Is it always so loud?” He asked as
he sat in the mildewed seats scattered around a long table.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Lacie only laughed at him, along
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Churlishly, he crossed his arms,
drink in hand, and chugged it. This was a mistake. He should have assigned
somebody else. Anybody else to the job. He’d rather get a contact high from
following around a hippie folk singer.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“So you’ll sign the petition to get
a margarita machine in the teacher’s lounge?” The other woman asked with a wry
smile.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Shit. I’ll buy it for us,” Simon
muttered as he shook what was left in his shake before upturning it for the
dregs.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Lacie was still laughing, a
tinkling peal that sounded heavenly. Looking over at her, Simon marveled at the
ever-present smile she wore. How could a woman who’d been attacked so many
times over the past month be so damn happy? But the more he watched her, the
more he noticed. She sat facing the door, and when someone came out of the
restroom behind her, she snapped her neck around to see who it was. She tapped
her fingers restlessly on the tabletop, a nervous gesture she may have
inherited from her dad.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg57Y_IpWLTiFU2ORi7DQQLphmtJdYJR8u9f1fQxVerOIJXThAAcPp3tJzx8CS3SZf0Le0zH3Bs5PIrgw5b5wCHb_pc83EuLznwnU_xSeSBE-B9PcnpxfM4_ZshFsaH7SOuQhlAOvt8u88/s1600/Echo+Teasers+-+Anne+Conley+-+Lose+Her.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg57Y_IpWLTiFU2ORi7DQQLphmtJdYJR8u9f1fQxVerOIJXThAAcPp3tJzx8CS3SZf0Le0zH3Bs5PIrgw5b5wCHb_pc83EuLznwnU_xSeSBE-B9PcnpxfM4_ZshFsaH7SOuQhlAOvt8u88/s320/Echo+Teasers+-+Anne+Conley+-+Lose+Her.png" width="320" /></a>He wondered just how genuine the
smile was.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“So, what brings you to our little
part of the woods? You don’t look like you need the job.” Lacie was lounging in
her chair, long legs stretched out in front of her, covered in some gauzy,
broomstick style skirt. She wore a filmy, baggy blouse over the top of it, and
her wrists were weighed down by clunky wooden bracelets. A matching necklace
hung from her neck, strung with enormous wooden beads. Her long brown hair was
braided down the side of her face—an open face, innocent, yet wary. She </div>
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knew he
didn’t belong here.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I wanted something different. I
used to be on the force in San Antonio, but retired.” He was keeping his lie as
close to the truth as possible. Having done some undercover work, the lie rolled
smoothly off his tongue. “I don’t necessary need the money, but I needed
something to do with myself. I thought working with kids would be nice.” Okay,
that last part was a stretch, but he was trying.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Well, that makes more sense then. You
didn’t realize you’d been hired as a classroom aide? That’s why you wore a
suit?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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He chuckled, feeling more than a
little sheepish. “Yeah. I thought it would be some sort of security position.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“It probably is,” Lacie mused as
she cast her friend a side-long glance. Thankfully, her friend changed the
subject.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“So, Lacie, you up for drinks
Thursday? You’re welcome to come too.” She turned to Simon. “It’s sort of our
let our hair down night.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIFIaNaf_uYSF_2QBNLjzOpCuHH3E0x-3vErDjVFNSNMW3LuFat883M2yrOzTpe-RE463FZ_BlfM6VcfTW0qizpnjJspTJbhEtRYQgY__5Hy9EyyrKMycj2P9DuK79rKAQzCplT4KiTe0/s1600/Echo+Teasers+-+Anne+Conley+-+Redemption.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIFIaNaf_uYSF_2QBNLjzOpCuHH3E0x-3vErDjVFNSNMW3LuFat883M2yrOzTpe-RE463FZ_BlfM6VcfTW0qizpnjJspTJbhEtRYQgY__5Hy9EyyrKMycj2P9DuK79rKAQzCplT4KiTe0/s320/Echo+Teasers+-+Anne+Conley+-+Redemption.png" width="320" /></a>His smile this time was genuine. “I’d
like that.” He looked back over at Lacie, who was looking at him funny, and his
smile dropped. She kept looking at him like that, and it made a volcano erupt
inside him. Her mahogany colored eyes took on this sheen and her cheeks got a
little ruddy, and Simon would get slammed with a heat so intense he felt like
lava was running through his veins. Then she would drop her eyes to her lap or
a kid or something, and he’d look away and everything would go back to normal.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He shifted in his seat. This kept
happening between them. This heat. This was about the fourth time he’d been
slammed with the volcano under his skin, and he needed it to stop.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Trent will be there,” Lacie told
her friend. “He’s gotten weird lately, so I don’t know how long he’ll stay, but
he’s trying to make more of a point of spending more time with me.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB3Zx6TyR8HWWqp3rP_g1qNhE_tGiOg4d3pXLHTUUzGN0E126n_bMpfZ8cyDx0d4p0F9_S4edLOjVhxbhNR0NcLl8bs8-vG5p0rgoSXUFUVWNQjCH2_JxZu94ysvaIa1Hw4uVst5istPY/s1600/teaser+one.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="814" data-original-width="614" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB3Zx6TyR8HWWqp3rP_g1qNhE_tGiOg4d3pXLHTUUzGN0E126n_bMpfZ8cyDx0d4p0F9_S4edLOjVhxbhNR0NcLl8bs8-vG5p0rgoSXUFUVWNQjCH2_JxZu94ysvaIa1Hw4uVst5istPY/s320/teaser+one.jpg" width="241" /></a>Shit. If Lacie were his girlfriend,
he’d be with her twenty-four hours a fucking day, especially if there were guys
stalking her. What sort of guy didn’t want to hang out with his girlfriend? He
slapped that thought straight out of his head. He had absolutely no business
going down that road, and had no idea where it had come from. Sure, Lacie was
attractive. But she wasn’t his type. At all.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He needed to get laid.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB3Zx6TyR8HWWqp3rP_g1qNhE_tGiOg4d3pXLHTUUzGN0E126n_bMpfZ8cyDx0d4p0F9_S4edLOjVhxbhNR0NcLl8bs8-vG5p0rgoSXUFUVWNQjCH2_JxZu94ysvaIa1Hw4uVst5istPY/s1600/teaser+one.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB3Zx6TyR8HWWqp3rP_g1qNhE_tGiOg4d3pXLHTUUzGN0E126n_bMpfZ8cyDx0d4p0F9_S4edLOjVhxbhNR0NcLl8bs8-vG5p0rgoSXUFUVWNQjCH2_JxZu94ysvaIa1Hw4uVst5istPY/s1600/teaser+one.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB3Zx6TyR8HWWqp3rP_g1qNhE_tGiOg4d3pXLHTUUzGN0E126n_bMpfZ8cyDx0d4p0F9_S4edLOjVhxbhNR0NcLl8bs8-vG5p0rgoSXUFUVWNQjCH2_JxZu94ysvaIa1Hw4uVst5istPY/s1600/teaser+one.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></a>But first he needed to call the
office, see how Miriam was doing with the paperwork, and see if Quinten would
help him move into his new house.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Amazon UK: </span><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Famzn.to%2F2sDowub&h=ATNhZ9IVUa9bX8FiJHGuwWukfVxmQRITYMSG-1-KKtN67EWkxcIvPwj3ORXvo3T1aMy4XNKUhQap5tiv6L33ieOkklg87DbC_oQLEro2ugeaREPPV-TGVERH8bvm9G6rPJBetv0nKKGs6LNPVPAe7CM6&enc=AZOx2KiuHaEo1Ku9_Chs2AE57iDNYuo2JliDfjK0R4O7PiIy1S_iuxnhyzInDgffJyrqqj65H-IpzqNuhG1fwcE-tAzsRKL5db4uPRfkyU7Lfmt7VdTPSeluL00VQyhmwwuFnzfhbNrKmoziVtoSj_U_t17KNBqPGyEHKksc4Yq9QazdhP_zWoEyMunl6TJc_iSFGxWt_fu0mhXuRvIxfL8n&s=1"><span style="color: #365899; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 10.5pt;">http://amzn.to/2sDowub</span></a><span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Nook: </span><a href="http://bit.ly/1DS4Q2v"><span style="color: #365899; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">http://bit.ly/1DS4Q2v</span></a><span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">iTunes: </span><a href="http://apple.co/1Egilth"><span style="color: #365899; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">http://apple.co/1Egilth</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #365899; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Wire</span></b><span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Amazon: </span><a href="http://amzn.to/2qW8quy"><span style="color: #365899; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">http://amzn.to/2qW8quy</span></a><span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Amazon UK: </span><a href="http://amzn.to/2rLmQPu"><span style="color: #365899; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">http://amzn.to/2rLmQPu</span></a><span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Nook: </span><a href="http://bit.ly/2r1CUzq"><span style="color: #365899; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">http://bit.ly/2r1CUzq</span></a><span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">iTunes: </span><a href="http://apple.co/2rLGQRW"><span style="color: #365899; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">http://apple.co/2rLGQRW</span></a><span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Click</span></b><span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Amazon: </span><a href="http://amzn.to/2lq1Id9"><span style="color: #365899; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">http://amzn.to/2lq1Id9</span></a><span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Amazon UK: </span><a href="http://amzn.to/2ee2w3F"><span style="color: #365899; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">http://amzn.to/2ee2w3F</span></a><span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Nook: </span><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F2eMUIrt&h=ATPGhfgV69zVscdlcKEQlfviomtyp0lHB8gRH9DhzNOW25NFzUB9NevP3PTyWWiSY96dxfgscRxWrbEFrDP7cwVRy9bFtj0QnreS3x-MrY2xzpN5J4fzKixjebmuNte7rrYNVITChSnFD-6eY4f2LEqF&enc=AZOPtdWGMru_yod_Psm07PKjPgbv2DRkIbIG9i3ORMMx1FPlr_Ubc3OQL4tg0qtDNkvQP7DdD2l2duFfxWuCmy3Px6PUuiZl9Yagx0kjGHddwBY7DaM_mYR-Rx8MvibqnPhfEubHAHR--243qRABoFLaK9GPwLFtnBG9wAh4T_hCEYw69LlaJO98GukEyq1MTaFcauiFDJ6_idxsl3-0cMHC&s=1"><span style="color: #365899; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">http://bit.ly/2eMUIrt</span></a><span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">iTunes: </span><a href="http://apple.co/2dxwS1e"><span style="color: #365899; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">http://apple.co/2dxwS1e</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #365899; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Grab</span></b><span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Amazon: </span><a href="http://amzn.to/2lm6QmF"><span style="color: #365899; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">http://amzn.to/2lm6QmF</span></a><span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Amazon UK: </span><a href="http://amzn.to/2sDnpLf"><span style="color: #365899; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">http://amzn.to/2sDnpLf</span></a><span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Nook: </span><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F2rL7sTd&h=ATMKBlFOhTv2hPKpZPYzhHtkLYSJDv95_s2VXC9fYS2Zg7yfejDbdEDXmbcuvQWG_APrt2Ul6D7Mt8VtYHxVkh6RiUHWujy_TvRoCDdrk8LFr_9yy7G4kVARoEPrA0vNO1nTC90i1LDXUZMJSUtFD2tL&enc=AZPUzZNKx9-N9Kw6cEcf-mCIXCF9n3K8fYQGmOQM5m1mdnZ8TIpryyJHOsU6xNZTZ0pdTKFX474W7tTelP5EWwwtku2UNQB7bafkRMvEnoaH7Rl4cV0hz83IFDd4wOmtmEmrk9o3ceauaoW0buYp4CjvVWXRA4-LWSOK81BFGyMezWkdUYI22SYWFvFJU5dJjQB8E_Z8TpvRNGlVz_LtCqPq&s=1"><span style="color: #365899; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">http://bit.ly/2rL7sTd</span></a><span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">iTunes: </span><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fapple.co%2F2s3UbYH&h=ATO2lVVxIAHrcoU3jZCtchkwmh8sqZCRw4mLLqYAPUawqsSXuhBdZAd9FTYzgXDDgNalXf7Pv-PQP_WO0MZe7peCPE0CXhdIc3V6AG16OsyN7ogR6BD-JPEKpFBR6AfKgEensaGJo5Ezq9ukG5WivhQq&enc=AZPVI8NzzzyVglOWa4if7c57yu6FDZapsn-pYBSR4LIqpAug3Rh9YVjQl5MK_4T76oShFsyad5pmq1imlVHsfxJX2mY4gZnEMO3hqQBnCWM8o4_c4mFpt7SUUMNR-SzkLA3K2y1MmeXCPMKVAx7-Xq99SPrteKBgN4c4yL4GFs5vfmdHnWu8S_UU7ps8BJShHvPkSB5iLMIqJAsvN4Muf5rq&s=1"><span style="color: #365899; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">http://apple.co/2s3UbYH</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #365899; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Murmur</span></b><span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Amazon: </span><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Famzn.to%2F2ktFrxp&h=ATNhrAU0JwpeABv7dC43El7GoOl4CsWfNX-WLWuqlM744jGsMhus3dUuGpLymVAGDezJLiNQm5PWN2iMdHlDCm0eJXUjYqUKgy2hArq5lkH470f05MbzI5mO74CCP3PjGckAcu8bohMMATHmMHTHygoJ&enc=AZPu7nj-cNENQEU1yrRH-jrXLx7JILEEy5e7GjNC-pbKVV12EA45rl08WtmBzRY-ipBhJiIvMVvuPDo3Kivs_0gksIRDbr9dKx3BZxcLH0OhYxnbVGe9YS1rF-vqBn81M2bIpEHie5qrG8MD90ATxXenw8WJ408D_vkQmklAttOEAhFgt_TbOvenxCRcxNaJVt1-wdiwhvERo7P-Ndcg_k2t&s=1"><span style="color: #365899; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">http://amzn.to/2ktFrxp</span></a><span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Amazon UK: </span><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Famzn.to%2F2dY4Ew4&h=ATNWrCgEfVnO_qAvOT2VbiPnWHn1pIRZV1SokwOBjU0GbLzBms8BN3jgkfdz_bvt5505cOVnBi9Hczku51EW2_tPXhMVfQa9OlV_iKUWS95ZhtWE8_ThS9QbpyR38BVZhuTpd_UAzgGxGTcYQVzbAeLA&enc=AZMPfK0aVxdBwB8d8mzMfVTRDPMWZQGmFOkXw9GPQ9IoF42ZEUCjYQ-m6Q20gIPxSEwBpQ7UbdCo1wOaFEBTDRj94-FusifiaraULhy1tXPyi5lAh15-vD1LGf7JkBjURRx80G-ledq_yeWkP1wRSPy0JEWy7CZst9r2rFyKfJJQuMFGgZcRO09zCNGx0kAvhkNjT2G_QXOKh62c3s-uHyx6&s=1"><span style="color: #365899; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">http://amzn.to/2dY4Ew4</span></a><span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Nook: </span><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F2dKXHN3&h=ATMVJJSFU2Sz9AiVtqetxKjWaiUuHhWzJ_zpYz5AO2_K9PIr8-iGaHZvZO-UPeIT373XFBr0f8-bZ5STxyzjEUxJz8w-qrBKA7wBYw_cIP30vZ3NwQsBCiJp9Fa9_5NO_6vAsiQh3w_3iP1ok3ndjn9O&enc=AZMlp6Z3pj_hHrw7-8zcw58igooovq5fXwZaXPtfJayyd_1f5JfCViniEXE8kCqKnwsnm__IcD2U5gIkLQCykd3J8kKUW2K08CpdpuYuybQnxf1SLGO540rEFZlkzZVY3Cwt4mbd517IPbNcjyBVnJ9diRA-fr_8tC8yIe3kkJguqZo8msPtHDOu2miDkiShGqrdjFwZbrKfsZ-rGDfEHq7e&s=1"><span style="color: #365899; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">http://bit.ly/2dKXHN3</span></a><span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">iTunes: </span><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fapple.co%2F2eAZEjY&h=ATNWbok8oPO1a1cNn9wnC8YJNjVRaa8Z3oFhq_KR9NuJhE2Zoz2ejB1Czeop_PsnmhXfD-kg5Xx-0IceJKuRdJzuSPW1HtiNvTfWmB3KyGrXzRzPXYkLtjKV9nRURdiONI_qyyRmVdDuVWLi69-m1eVN&enc=AZNr4cdXwZlEIXaiz2bZRlCFaWk1bLdrpG3LE-nCruEK1-k2-hOu2KMBZwbeidmrDCes4jpvFe3ofL4oSagoPSUMHm7cFJgf3qk0Kg8w2295J5HrEohmXGPzf8fbgcq5ZU3VUqfmV26abS4AG3nSEilAwehQKZdJP7KxEZFxyUG2EbmCAgvU1T3ST9_Lr0l4H0ulbg48l86R_7mhaiOhU5HS&s=1"><span style="color: #365899; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">http://apple.co/2eAZEjY</span></a><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Bond </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Amazon: </span><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Famzn.to%2F2s3IlxK&h=ATPkwhJnEEhz6PyEWlRr-8-XkwZ037cdADuja9KlczzWIDmPBW0vIVsHy1t8Z-KQuTCn5V26MWgwPHomhp_nXnF3OKLnoQtf6wkMe4KjWvaiB9o1Ei-DGEcb3eB6hUF70N92OJ5PtEzFOoEp7FcKGZWH&enc=AZONH-1BnecqU4_FVEX2z2Upd3tiOvHxA27gT5FwUFm_qBVtFVzIZ2nZGahYcOAngyVp9urQoVti4Ijtwr2G6RUo4RYIcPnDlPnkVDH33XoiDTZO4tLU-7TR_VzSFW4HxXRqHhYCbwBIRyypcAXdbW5qwX5qFikOR9LU0OUyJImI9bDpENIk7dfduhyxVdKCqMg07dpRdNjtX_LBa4VLu0io&s=1"><span style="color: #365899; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">http://amzn.to/2s3IlxK</span></a><span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Amazon UK: </span><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Famzn.to%2F2p1Ufar&h=ATNTCA8Zo5WID2CJEcpGKwMBRbcnQ8XSx3oV8xM90l0KAxjRaC3prgE4fPDYcERKEXmH3tNUXFhWtPhmFDf-NHpsqPBM4NcMrx_O1mAscODZ-ThJd_20l_gyt-YzWUb98vC1EE8zwvY_Y1_sZEa-1X7W&enc=AZM_h8d3jey-BLy3SG28Vsmmw2TLGb1iAOYTe3rYzkkgV_JmMIuggytC2SoegwiRI7Az1P0gUbLQugSsYKeXUJ6zZNC6lSnfWSRokq9p2PoAf8OsuevnBL0NCM0kxyBFbBh8es7R82KKVB2_GdWpuqH2hpIMujYe8Mo3Yvm2iyy5pWsH7tw5k84de9Gh-3ycowUdBgBlE6fPrA-Yd6PYrtzc&s=1"><span style="color: #365899; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">http://amzn.to/2p1Ufar</span></a><span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anne Conleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00252038587617716689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600710658483710039.post-21810763493039398442018-03-09T10:01:00.000-08:002018-03-09T10:01:04.173-08:00A day in the life of an author...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I can't tell you what exactly I've accomplished today, but I've been at my desk working most of the it...<br />
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Like, I've been monitoring a couple of facebook ads, watching my money go down the toilet. This week, I've spoken with two facebook ad "experts," one actually FROM facebook, so I'm implementing some of their strategies (like the ever elusive pixel). <br />
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And since I'm spending money on FB ads, I'm monitoring my sales numbers, which is a lot like watching a stagnant pond with a small eddy in the middle. Spending more on ads than I'm making. Sweet. Good times.<br />
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But I woke up with one goal in mind: To finish revisions on Chapter six. Chapter six is pretty wasted, in my opinion. It's an opportunity to introduce lots of backstory and motivations through dialogue with different characters, thereby introducing them as well. I've been reading some Kristen Ashley books, and realized her secondary characters are as well-drawn as her primary characters, and I want to be like Kristen Ashley. Richness, detail, awesome story telling. I've opened this chapter no less than nine times this morning to get this in there, and get it way better than an "Almost-Kissing Scene" without much else.<br />
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Alas, I've started my Pinterest board for this book series that releases in August, IF I CAN FINISH THE FREAKING BOOK. I've had a conversation with a former firefighter about the fact all available images of bunker gear have firefighters posing, looking like cover models, instead of real firefighters. (Newsflash: They actually wear clothes under the gear!) AND I've had a fabulous discussion with a fellow author about the motivations and redemption of a character in a novel we both read and loved. Oh, and I learned what SnowThunder is.<br />
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I have written about 500 words, but the chapter isn't finished. I have some notes on what to do next, but not much else. I'm thinking about the pub I go to more than my manuscript. I may go write there. It IS Friday after all...<br />
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Echo--romantic suspense by Anne Conley in the Pierce Securities series. </div>
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One attack in her home is enough to make Lacie Hill freak out, but a second is enough to make her check out. Lacie was happy with her solitary life—kindergarten teacher, weekly girls’ nights out, and a father she’s close to. When she’s targeted for sick games with unknown players, she forces herself to act normally and hope everything will go away. You know, ostrich impersonation. The police are doing everything they can to help. Nothing left for her to do, right?</div>
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When Lacie’s father hires Pierce Securities to help her, the only person <i>not</i> working a job would be the boss man, Simon— a control freak who loves his rules. He’s trying to find his sister’s stalker while keeping his micromanaging eyes on all the guys in the office. He has policies in place for reasons. For safety. For professionalism.</div>
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For his heart.</div>
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Lacie Hill was painfully early to school, obtrusively to get ready for her day, but unobtrusively, to avoid her own home. As she walked around straightening desks and picking up papers, she gave herself a talking to. She was leaving all the negativity at home, where it belonged. She didn’t need to show her fear to her students. This was where they came to learn through play, and Lacie was all about teaching. She loved being a teacher, and watching the children as they grasped concepts and gained knowledge, even without knowing it. It was why she existed.</div>
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“Hi, Daddy!” With long strides, she walked over and hugged the man who had raised her after her mother died when she was eight. He rarely had time to come into her classroom, but had managed to visit more since last week. She hated that the evil following her had tainted his school the way it had, but at least it hadn’t managed to invade her classroom.</div>
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He squeezed her tightly, cocooning her in only the safety a father’s hug could. It wasn’t until she’d squeezed for a good thirty seconds that she saw the man standing behind him.</div>
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“I finally managed to get you an Aide for the classroom. Mr. Pierce is going to help you out with your students, and anything else you may need.” Her father stepped back, and the stranger held out his hand to shake hers. She almost didn’t see it, though, because… <i>his eyes.</i> The heat flashing in them as he stepped forward to shake her hand consumed her, a hunger that tracked through her veins and coursed around her body before it shuttered into a look of benign nonchalance. It was so fast, if it hadn’t have had such a physical effect on her body, Lacie might not have noticed it.</div>
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For one thing, he was dressed in a suit. Lacie had never seen a teacher’s aide who dressed nicer than the teachers. Or the administration either. His suit was designer, she could tell that much. And it stretched across a frame that wasn’t used to sitting behind desks and working in classrooms. This Mr. Pierce was built like a small line-backer—broad shoulders, tapered waist.</div>
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“Ms. Hill,” he spoke, prompting her to realize she was staring at him.</div>
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“Sorry,” she held out her hand to shake his. “Mr. Pierce, it’s nice to meet you. I’m excited to be working with you.” Not that she had known about him, but knowing her dad, he’d probably busted his butt to get her someone in her classroom to help out since the tire-slashing incident last week.</div>
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“Well, I’ll leave you two to it, then,” her father said awkwardly before backing out of the room. “Have a great day, sweetheart.” He winked at her, then left Lacie alone with the stranger in the suit who was supposed to help her all day.</div>
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<br />Anne Conleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00252038587617716689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600710658483710039.post-11397858323455972072018-02-07T05:30:00.000-08:002018-02-07T05:30:52.344-08:00Cover Reveal - Whispers in the Dark by LeTeisha Newton - #DarkRomance<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">That’s
just the beginning of my tale. I’ve survived Purgatory, abuse, and near death.
In that abandoned farmhouse I nearly lost everything, but Jacob saved me. We
were trapped in this hell together, giving each other the strength to hold on.
I fell into darkness with my captor’s son.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was perfect, my Alana. Brilliant and full of pain. She understood my darkness
and fueled the fire. When she left, I waited patiently to find her, and in her
honor, I killed men who took away from innocents. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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deadly now, a killer too, and perfectly mine. It was beautiful to behold, but
she belongs in a cage. My cage. She’ll love me again, or I’ll expose her dirty
secrets for the world to see while going down in flames with her. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>Warning:
This book is full of triggers. It’s wicked dark, with created evil falling in
love. People die. They are hurt horribly. The bad guys get away, and there is
no apology for it. Hardcore trigger within these pages.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Writing professionally since 2008, LeTeisha Newton’s love of romance novels began long before it should have. After spending years sneaking reads from her grandmother’s stash, she finally decided to pen her own tales. As many will do during their youth, she bounced from fantasy, urban literature, mainstream, interracial, paranormal, heterosexual, and LGBT works until she finally rested in contemporary romance.</div>
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LeTeisha is all about deep angst and angry heroes who take a bit more loving to smooth their rough edges. Love comes in many sizes, shapes, and colors, as well as with—or without—absolute beauty and fairy tale sweetness. She writes the darker tales because life is hard … but love is harder.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;">When London was fifteen, a fortune teller told her she would meet her soul mate on June 23rd. The only problem is, which June 23rd? The woman wasn’t specific and only called him her dreamer. Desperate to find her mystery man eleven years later, London sets out to search for him but is waylaid by a mugger instead.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;">Can they fulfill the destiny predicted by the fortune teller? Or will fate be undone?</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;">You can find ALL the #MeetCute books in the collaboration here: </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://meetcutebooks.com/">http://meetcutebooks.com/</a></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;">Boy meets girl. It's the way romances usually begin . . . and while we all love a happy ending, it's the #MeetCute that wins our hearts.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXp_2H_EyofFW5vFsl_gyhZUYLU1I6CQQwae3XP9umUOsQifxUDxm5tDvB2FQMxGStkEOQR864zzqhr8plrViWqlGasG-9u_u_lJRXOjYM6cvjEuOBTtE8-ZtiCEK7UIinEdqhsodWF1o/s1600/IMG_5525+%25281%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1178" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXp_2H_EyofFW5vFsl_gyhZUYLU1I6CQQwae3XP9umUOsQifxUDxm5tDvB2FQMxGStkEOQR864zzqhr8plrViWqlGasG-9u_u_lJRXOjYM6cvjEuOBTtE8-ZtiCEK7UIinEdqhsodWF1o/s320/IMG_5525+%25281%2529.JPG" width="235" /></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He lowered his mouth to hers in a
tender touch of their lips. She could feel the warmth of his lips on hers, and
they explored in a leisurely kiss as if
they had all the time in the world. Sounds of the carnival faded away as they
rose higher into the sky.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Elliot surprised her by not
getting handsy. He only touched her neck, wrapping his hand around it while his
other hand went to her waist. He seemed content to just kiss her and not do
anything else.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">She returned his kisses,
luxuriously running her tongue across his teeth, exploring the recesses of his
mouth with a whimper. The kiss was perfect; it didn’t ask for anything or make
demands. London relished the feeling of rightness in this moment with Elliot.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">London suddenly understood a
fundamental truth about couples in general. She kissed Elliot because the
setting was perfect. It wasn’t a claiming thing or an interest in going
further, it was a kiss. She kissed him because the intimacy of the gesture
showed her desire to be close to him, and not in a sexual way. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">She’d always thought holding hands and kissing in public were signs
of possessiveness, but they weren’t. Instead of possessiveness, she realized it
showed a desire to be close—to maintain contact in a way that was acceptable to
others.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And this kiss was perfect.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The leisurely contact, as she
wrapped her arms around Elliot’s waist to pull him closer, was amazing. There was
absolutely no other place in the world she wanted to be right now. She was in
her thirties and had never kissed a man like this.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A throat clearing had them
pulling apart reluctantly to find the Ferris wheel had stopped and the
tattooed, toothless attendant was standing there with a giant grin on his face.
“Magic in the air, tonight! Want another go?” Bushy eyebrows waggled at them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">London couldn’t have told him her
name after that kiss, much less the story behind it. She was afraid if she went
on another turn with Elliot, he’d have her kissed into brain mush.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Elliot got out, a small
smile on his face, and turned to hold out his hand to London. She</span>took it and, weak-kneed, managed
to stumble out of the Ferris wheel carriage before another couple got on.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Leading Elliot down the midway,
they were silent as she digested the way she felt right now. She wanted more
with Elliot, and he was the first man to ever make her feel that way. He held
her hand as they walked, and London’s traced her swollen lips with her fingers as
she stared at the ground in front of her.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">His hand was massive, wrapped
around hers, and spoke of safety, protection, and belonging. Their hands swung absently
between them as they weaved in and around people. The lights flashing, bells ringing,
and people laughing all faded into the distance as London was just present with
Elliot.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“That woman is waving you over,
London.” Elliot’s soft voice spoke the first words since they’d gotten off the
Ferris wheel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">London’s head snapped up, her
eyes focusing on the woman he pointed to. It was <i>her</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The fortune-teller.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The dimly lit tent at the end of
the midway looked so familiar, even twenty years later. The woman looked the
same—old and wizened, with a wild array of dark curls spilling around her face.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“I know her.” Not really, but
she’d dreamed of this woman so many times, remembering her, wondering about
her. They walked over to the fortune-teller, ignoring all else. “Hi,” London
said stupidly. “How’ve you been?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The woman’s dark eyes went from
London to Elliot before her face broke into a smile. “I see you found your
dreamer. Do you feel it?” London wasn’t sure what she felt, but she felt
something, so she nodded.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Part of London wanted to go
inside the tent and see if it had changed, but another part of her didn’t think
this was real. She looked up at Elliot, who was watching the woman with a
bemused expression on his face. Okay, so he saw her, maybe she was real.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The woman turned her attention to
Elliot, who stiffened under her scrutiny. “Destiny is difficult … Very
difficult …” Her attention back on London, she said, “You’ve found him, now
keep him.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">She went back into her tent, and
London tugged Elliot away. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Friend of yours?” he asked,
laughing nervously.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0ACo4sEbDH5146WXFc81IjYlgpMyDhSRvVUNhYlpoMFVPpQ9YNeFLUebdkMjCV3X2SCKVGGAuhFUpUa2HYuihANCBejBT3bDHKcx8InG8L3YT2QXlsId9ZxywATG8K7TS5o8sO3YvZHE/s1600/skin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="341" data-original-width="512" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0ACo4sEbDH5146WXFc81IjYlgpMyDhSRvVUNhYlpoMFVPpQ9YNeFLUebdkMjCV3X2SCKVGGAuhFUpUa2HYuihANCBejBT3bDHKcx8InG8L3YT2QXlsId9ZxywATG8K7TS5o8sO3YvZHE/s320/skin.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Not exactly. More of an
acquaintance.” London turned to look back at the tent, and as before, it was
engulfed in darkness, as if there was no one there. “Take me home.” Elliot’s
eyes darkened under the lights of the carnival, and he wrapped his hand around
her waist, his fingers lingering just above her butt.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“With pleasure,” he spoke with a
promise that took her breath away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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