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Romance set in modern times during present day.
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Classical Romance for the 21st Century @TarahScott #RLFblog #Historical
Lord Grayson’s Bride Meet author Tarah Scott, historical romance author. This award
winner cut her teeth on authors such as Georgette Heyer, Zane Grey, and Amanda Quick.
Her favorite book is a Tale of Two Cities, with Gone With the Wind as a close second.
She writes modern classical romance, and paranormal and romantic suspense. Tarah
grew up in Texas and currently resides in Westchester County, New York with her
daughter.Lord Grayson’s Bride
A Scrolls of Cridhe novellaShe can’t allow his love for her to destroy him…When Nicholas Spencer, Earl of Grayson, returns to claim the
woman he loves, Lady Josephine Knightly isn’t willing to forgive him for abandoning
her six years ago. But neither can she resist the man he’s become.Two days after Josephine signs the marriage contract she discovers
a nasty secret that will destroy her family. The only way to protect them—to protect
the only man she’s ever loved—is to disappear…or die.Nicholas won’t make the same mistake twice and let Josephine
Knightly go. She loves him. He felt it in their one kiss before he left, and in
the single kiss she allowed since his return. But she’s doing everything in her
power to sabotage the marriage even before it’s begun. Nicholas doesn’t care. If
Hell is where he must live to have her, then she must stand by his side in the fire.Lord Grayson’s Bride is part of The Scrolls of Cridhe: Volume
1, Highland Winds bundle. These are seven brand new Scottish romance novellas by
seven best selling authors. The bundle will be available for preorder November 1
and will release November 17 for the introductory price of $2.99.The Highlander’s Improper Wife
The Highlander’s Improper Wife A proper young lady should
never attend a Masque…Aphrodite is no lady.Betrothal to the callous Lord Blackhall painted a future devoid
of love. Upon his death, Lady Caroline Wilmont is promised to the younger brother.
Caroline refuses to allow her first taste of desire to be at the hands of a man
who would rather have any woman but her. This, her last night of freedom, is to
be a memory of lust that she can take with her throughout her loveless marriage.
As Aphrodite, Caroline attends a masque determined to find a man to initiate her
into the intimacies of erotic love.Taran Robertson, Viscount of Blackhall, makes no secret that
he despises his obligation to marry the Sassenach heiress chosen for him by his
father. As a last foray before his wedding, he attends a masque. However, the spirited
vixen he meets and seduces has secrets…secrets that just may reveal he’s to have
an improper wife.The Highlander’s Improper Wife will release November 17 for the
introductory price of $2.99Buy This Author’s Books
Barnes and Noble http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/to-tame-a-highland-earl-tarah-scott/1119109490?ean=2940045808477Follow This Author
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New for 2015: Author and Character Interviews #RLFblog #amreading
Romance Lives Forever Thank you for a great 2014! The Romance Lives Forever blog grew, and some wonderful features were added. For the year, there were 363 posts.
Social Media
The link between the blog and Paper.li helped get out the word about blog posts. The paper is an online daily ezine, and this one posts to Twitter. The blog uses the hashtag #RLFblog, and you can click on Twubs to check its reach.
Triberr did a great job of sharing the news as well. Because of my followers, the tribemates I associate with, and their followers, RLF has a reach of over one million. The program works because it brings new readers, and reminds current ones of new material. It provides an average of 45 – 50 mentions on Twitter every day, and since each post has the guest author’s Twitter handle in the title, that means the guest gets mentioned too.
Networked Blogs helped by posting automatically to Facebook. The blog goes to several pages, and is often shared. Did you know the blog has its own Facebook page? Come over and like the page, and then share the day’s post, especially if you’re one of the guests.
https://www.facebook.com/RomanceLivesForeverSign Up!
Request a date by clicking the Request a Date tab. Fill in the info, pick two dates, and I’ll do my best to get you one of them.RLF Top Blogger Award RLF Gems
This popular feature happens on the first of each month. I post a listing of the top bloggers, and send the top five a graphic to post on their websites or blogs. It’s almost always the most visited page of the month, although I don’t count it when listing which posts are the most popular. I want the credit to go to my wonderful guests. The top blogger each month gets a month of free ad space on the blog. The top blogger for the year gets a full year of ad space. The winner for December, and for 2014 will be announced Jan 1, 2015.Thank you…
The blog has grown and changed in response to your requests, and I hope you’ve found it helpful. If there is something you’d like me to add or change, please let me know.Thank you for your support. It’s been a pleasure getting to know you, and I hope to see you back soon.Kayelle Allen -
Christmas Hope by Leslie Lynch @Leslie_Lynch_ #RLFblog #Holiday
Christmas Hope
by Leslie LynchCover Love includes a cover, blurb, buy links, and social
media contacts for the author. Today’s featured book is Christmas Hope.Author: Leslie LynchGenre: ContemporaryBook heat level (based on movie ratings): PGSam Bledsoe prefers his reclusive existence. A one-man landscape
business keeps his badly scarred face away from curious eyes. But when a woman faints
on her way from neighbor Maggie Ross’s house, he doesn’t hesitate. He rushes to
help while grappling with memories of the incident that burned him so badly.Free spirit Becca Sweet is pregnant—and down on her luck. The
father of her unborn baby showed his true colors when he showed her the door. Becca
appeals to her no-nonsense sister for help, but Maggie, unaware of Becca’s pregnancy,
chooses that moment to dish out some tough love.When Sam comes to Becca’s rescue, their battered hearts collide.
In a moment of holiday magic, they discover that Christmas hope applies to all,
even to them. And will hope lead to love, the most precious Christmas gift of all?Buy This Book
Grab Christmas Hope
for 99c now; the price goes to $1.99 on January 1.Barnes and Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/christmas-hope-leslie-lynch/1120617877?ean=2940150554504About the Author
Award winning author Leslie Lynch gives voice to characters who
struggle to find healing for their brokenness—and discover unconventional solutions
to life’s unexpected twists.Leslie lives near Louisville, Kentucky, with her husband and
her adult children’s cats. While not engaged in wrestling the beautiful and prolific
greenery of their yard into submission, she flies as a volunteer for the Civil Air
Patrol, loves the exuberant creativity and color of quilting and pottery…and, of
course, writes.Check out the rest of Leslie’s Appalachian Foothills series,
where you will meet some of the characters who appear in A Broken Christmas! These
novels of suspense and healing are available at Amazon.Author Social Media
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Leslie_Lynch_Amazon
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Cover Love: Naughty List 13 Holiday Stories @NaughtyLiterati #RLFblog #HolidayRomance
Naughty List
13 Naughty Holiday StoriesCover Love includes a cover, blurb, buy links, and social media
contacts for the author. Today’s featured book is Naughty List: Thirteen Naughty
Holiday Stories.Genre Erotic romance anthologyAuthor Name The Naughty LiteratiBook heat level (based on movie ratings): RBlurb
Are you on the Naughty List? Thirteen Naughty Holiday Stories
to warm up your winter. Tales by Naughty Literati authors range from heartwarming
and sweet to scorching hot erotic, medieval to futuristic, humans to aliens and
shape-shifters, vanilla committed couples to kinky menage fun.Naughty List Table of Contents:The NightWind’s Visit by Charlotte Boyett-CompoDear Santa…I Want A MAN For Christmas by Marianne StephensPrelude To A Most Unusual Marriage by Katherine KingstonNo Gentleman by Francesca HawleyJewel’s Menage Christmas by Berengaria BrownTune Me Up by Lainey-Jo CharlesOn the Eighteenth of January, ’78 or, A Night At Valley Forge
by Regina KammerThe Christmas Leopard by Lynne ConnollyChristmas Bad Girl by Trinity BlacioHow The Alien Stole Christmas by Belle ScarlettMerry Christmas, Kitten by Nicole AustinViking in Tartan by Suz deMelloHoldin’ On by Alexa SilverBuy This Book
Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Naughty-List-Thirteen-Holiday-Stories-ebook/dp/B00PYZON9U/Google Play https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Charlotte_Boyett_Compo_Naughty_List?id=El6LBQAAQBAJiTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/naughty-list/id943985553?ls=1&mt=11Barnes and Noble http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/naughty-list-charlotte-boyett-compo/1120835753?ean=2940150189195Author Social Media
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The Loner by Kate Moore @MooreKate0 #RLFblog #contemporary
The Loner Cover Love includes a cover, blurb, buy links, and social
media contacts for the author. Today’s featured book is The Loner.The Loner is the first book in Kate Moore’s (multiple RITA nominee)
newest series, The Canyon Club. Gatsby meets Persuasion in a story of sex and money
in L.A. as a self-sufficient loner, new billionaire Will Sloan, dares to cross the
divide of privilege to claim his lost love.PrideLoner Will Sloan, son of a waitress and a dead rodeo cowboy,
former scholarship student, new billionaire, is back in L.A., land of palm-lined
drives and fiery sunsets. His friends urge him to jump into the hot city dating
scene, but a chance encounter at a school reunion revives a powerful past love.
He’s never forgotten Annie James…and this time around, he swears he’ll do the walking
out.And PersuasionWidowed young, Annie James believes she’s recovered from the
early heartbreaks that left her single and jobless at 24. Ten years later, she’s
got a job, a house, and a personal passion helping at-risk kids. Then she steps
up to do a favor for a friend and help a poor boy win a scholarship to the Canyon
School. Doing so unlocks the door to the past, and to the one man who could break
her heart again. This time, though, love will conquer all.Buy This Book
About the Author
Kate has lived most of her life along the California coast. That
experience has made her a jeans-wearing, toes in wet-sand, married to a surfer,
fog-loving weather wimp, with a hint of East Coast polish from spending her college
years in Boston. Family history connects her to Irish and English immigrants, Cornish
miners, gold prospectors, and adventurers who sailed around Cape Horn bound for
San Francisco.When she’s not reading, writing or brainstorming, Kate walks
in the redwoods, feed birds, collect books, apples and leaves; she watches tele-novellas
on Spanish-language TV and immerses herself in all things English. Her favorite
food groups are butter, brown sugar, dark chocolate, and red wine. Kate’s early
literary influences were The Little Engine That Could, The Little Red Hen, and Winnie
the Pooh. Austen, Heyer, Chaucer, and Homer came later and inspired her to put that
first plot on paper.Kate’s heroes are honorable, virile outsiders with some grand
ambition; her heroines are practical princesses, who drive those edgy loners into
love with good sense and good sex.Her family and friends offer endless support and humor. Kate
says her children are her best works, and her husband is her favorite hero.Author Social Media
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Character Sketch: Sir Darius Lee | Leap Into The Knight @mjschiller #RLFblog #SFR
Leap Into the Knight
by MJ SchillerM.J. Schiller shares details about the creation of Sir Darius
Lee in the book Leap Into The Knight.Title Leap Into The KnightGenre sci-fi romanceAuthor M.J. SchillerBook heat level (based on movie ratings): PG13Sir Darius Lee is a Knight of the High Order.But when Darius discovers a stranger in his room in the middle
of the night, and the intruder turns out to be a beautiful woman, he begins to question
how he is meant to live his life.Princess Megan of Bethyea is being held captive.But when two knights help her to escape and bring her back to
her home planet, she finds the home she knew no longer exists.When The Council of Twelve questions Darius about his relationship
with Maggie, she tries to flee from The Academy of the High Order to prevent him
from losing his knighthood.Will Darius and Orion find Maggie before she leaves Albion? And
if they do, how can they face the decision of The Council? And what about the feelings
Orion has developed for the princess?Introducing Sir Darius Lee
Name: Sir Darius LeeAge: 26Gender: MBirthplace: AlbionProfession: Knight of the High OrderEthnicity/Species (if not human): humanDescribe his/her body build, skin tone, height and weight. Include
any unique features such as dimples, freckles, or scars: Six-foot-four, lean, muscular,
fair skinned, long, brown hair that he often pulls back and secures with a strip
of leather. Strong features, cheek bones, jaw, nose.Who is the significant other in your character’s life?Princess Megan of BethyeaHow does your hero dress?Simply. Browns that are able to act as camouflage if necessary.
A loose fitting shirt for mobility and sturdy travel cloak that can also serve as
a blanket or pillow.If you could only hear
this character’s voice (but not see him) what characteristic would identify him?He has a deep, soothing voice. Confident and calm.Is the character book-smart,
self-taught, widely-experienced?All of the above. He studied at the Academy, but has learned
much through his travels throughout the galaxy.Does he scrape by, live comfortably, live extravagantly?Knights are taught to live simply, but he is also comfortable
in extravagant surroundings, often having to deal with diplomats and high-ranking
officials.What is your character’s
viewpoint on wealth?It is of little consequence.On what special skills
does your character rely?His wit. His fighting skills. His steady moral compass.What is your character’s family like?He remembers very little about his family as he was dropped off
at the Academy at a very young age.How do others perceive
your character based upon looks, and is this assumption accurate?Because he is extremely tall, he might be seen as imposing. But,
while he can be a fierce fighter, he is really a kind and gentle man who is fair
and understanding.Does your character care
about what others assume about him?To a degree. He would not want people to be intimidated by him…unless
the situation warranted it.Can your hero keep a secret
(why or why not)?As a Knight of the High Order he often has to keep information
secret due to the nature of his missions. Besides, he would feel no need to gossip.
He is mostly a quiet man.What inner doubt causes
your character the most difficulty?He really has no inner doubts until he meets Maggie. His feelings
for her confuse him at the beginning, but once he has come to terms with them, he
is as resolute in his love for her as he has been about anything in his life.When (if) he lies or is
upset, what gives him away?It is very easy to tell when he is upset because that inner calm
that usually exudes from him is missing.About Your Writer
To honor the person who chose to share your story, please answer the following
questions.Why do you think your
writer chose to write about you?She has a fascination for space travel and the concept of being
a knight.What do you wish your
writer had not told others about you?I really have nothing that I an unwilling to share about myself.What other character from
your book do you think your writer should write a book about, and why?I think Amar would be a fascinating topic because he likes to
live in the grey areas of life, skimming just along the borderline of what is legal
and what is not.Why do you think your
writer loves to write?Hmm…I’m guessing that writing could be a soothing activity. I
seldom have time for it myself.Is there anything you’d
like to say to your writer?I’d like to hear more stories about knights and how they handle
the unusual circumstances that come their way.Buy This Book
Barnes and Noble http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/leap-into-the-knight-mj-schiller/1120676645?ean=2940150325357Kobo http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/leap-into-the-knightiTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/leap-into-the-knight/id938350099?mt=11Author Bio
MJ is a lunch lady in the heart of Central Illinois. My gosh!
Can you get more folksy than that? She met her husband at the University of Missouri-Columbia
and now she has a twenty-year-old (how did that happen?) and eighteen year old triplets!
She loves to read, karaoke (where she can pretend she is a rock star) and spends
WAY too much time on Facebook. She grew up in St. Louis and still has family there.Author Social Media
Twitter https://twitter.com/mjschillerPinterest http://www.pinterest.com/mjschiller/Amazon Author Page http://www.amazon.com/M.J.-Schiller/e/B009JOQFQQ/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_pop_1