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Top Bloggers May 2015 @Sabrina_York @mariannericeaut #RLFblog
RLF Gem Award Last month, Romance Lives Forever had 31 posts in a 31 day month.
Each month, the RLF Gems post ranks in the top ten, but is not counted, in order
to focus on guests.The Top Blogger for May was Sabrina York. She wins a month of
free cover advertising on the blog. Our Top Blogger of the Year is publisher Liquid
Silver Books, which won a year of free advertising.About Sabrina York
Bookshelf http://sabrinayork.com/books/Newsletter and tiara contest: http://sabrinayork.com/sabrinas-contest-and-newsletter/Website: http://sabrinayork.com/Twitter https://twitter.com/sabrina_yorkFacebook Author Page https://www.facebook.com/SabrinaYorkBooksJoin the conversation on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/SabrinaYorkChatAndContests/permalink/684147071695223/Tsu: https://www.tsu.co/SabrinaYorkAmazon Author Page: http://www.amazon.com/author/sabrinayorkTop Five Bloggers for the Month
(judged by page views). Congratulations to each one! There was a tie for first place.1. Sabrina York
1. Alisa Anderson2. Marianne Rice3. Marilyn Baron4. Susan Behon5. Anne KaneHonorable mention: Berengaria BrownNew Award – Top Chatter
RLF Gem Chat Award Because the person who gets the most comments in a month is not always
the person who gets the most page views per month, I instituted the Top Chatter
Award. This is the award for the person who receives the most comments. It goes
to the top three people in that category. To win, a guest must have five or
more comments (not counting the guest author’s).1. Marianne Rice
2. Sabrina York
3. Sue BehonRomance Lives Forever features authors and new books. It has
a blogger’s FAQ page with a downloadable guide and six optional interviews. Readers
can follow via Google+, Networked Blogs, Linky Followers, email, an RSS feed, and
there’s a blog button readers and authors can grab. Authors can share previous books.
The blog uses author or publisher names as tags on posts, and author Twitter handles
in the titles. The site is broadcast over Triberr with a potential reach of over
1.2M readers via its Twitter-linked network. Twitter mentions are also gathered
in several Paper.li ezines, giving the author additional opportunities for promotion.
The Romance Lives
Forever Paper.li ezine features only guest authors, and the day’s guest is on
its front page every day.New for 2015Each post will be featured on the Romance Lives Forever Pinterest
board within a few days after it goes live. https://www.pinterest.com/kayelleallen/romance-lives-forever-rlfblog/Share your book cover on Romance Lives Forever
Limited spots to share book covers are available. Cost is $3
per month, with discounts for covers posted for one quarter and up to one year.
Covers can be changed monthly.RLFblog Admin – Nicole Morgan
Author Nicole Morgan assists me with scheduling for Romance Lives
Forever. She is the blog admin. Look for emails from her. Nicole and I want to ensure everyone who requests
a spot on the blog gets a personal response. Please use this email if you have questions
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special. This group simply provides a joint email for us and streamlines things
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Forever a great place to discover new books and authors.Other participants this month in alphabetical order by first
name are:Alisa Anderson, Ari
Thatcher, Brita Addams, Felice Stevens, Freya Lange, Grace Marshall, Ines
Johnson, Jennifer Lynne, K. Vale, Kayelle Allen, Kim Carmichael, Kim Headlee, Kristina
Knight, Leigh Ellwood, Lily Harlem, Linnea Alexis, Lisa Carlisle, Lisa Haman, Nhys
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Someday My Prints Will Come @MarilynBaron #RLFblog #Fantasy
Cover Love includes a cover, blurb, buy links, and social
media contacts for the author. Today’s featured book is Someday My Prints Will Come by Marilyn Baron.About the Book
Title Someday My Prints Will ComeAuthor Marilyn BaronGenre Paranormal FantasyBook heat level (based on movie ratings): GBuy This Book
ARe https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-somedaymyprintswillcome-1768410-149.htmlAbout the Author
Marilyn
Baron is a corporate public relations consultant in Atlanta. She’s a member of
Romance Writers of America, Georgia Romance Writers (GRW), and Marketing for
Romance Writers. She’s a recipient of the GRW 2009 Chapter Service Award and
winner or finalist in writing awards in single title, suspense romance, novel with
strong romantic elements and paranormal romance. Marilyn writes in a variety of
genres, including: Humorous women’s fiction; a psychic suspense series; historical
romantic thrillers; and Fantasy for The Wild
Rose Press; and humorous paranormal short stories for TWB Press. She
also wrote two books and a musical with her sister. Marilyn is a member of the
Roswell Reads Steering Committee and belongs to two book clubs. A native of
Miami, Florida, Marilyn now lives in Roswell, Georgia.Author Social Media
Website http://marilynbaron.comBlog http://ce.savvyauthors.com/
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Marilyn Baron Author of The Widows’ Gallery @MarilynBaron #RLFblog #mystery
The Widows’ Gallery Today’s authbor interview is with Marilyn Baron.Why did you write this
book?I love using art and art theft as themes in my books. I studied
art history in Florence, Italy, in college where I fell in love with my favorite
painting—The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli—which hangs in the Uffizi Gallery.
So I decided to make that painting the centerpiece of my story. The cover art is
also reminiscent of that painting. Last year, my husband and I took an anniversary
cruise to the Mediterranean. All these things gelled and I decided to set part of
my book in Florence, Italy, and on a cruise ship, before the main characters arrived
in Lobster Cove, Maine, where the Lobster Cove series for The Wild Rose Press is
set.What are your favorite
genres to read?Literary fiction, women’s fiction and thrillersWho is your favorite character
from fiction (not including your own)?Jamie Fraser in the Outlander series.What are you working on
at the moment, and will see from you in coming months?On March 20, Killer Cruise, the third book in my Psychic Crystal
Mystery Series, will be released from The Wild Rose Press. It also takes place on
a cruise ship and one of the themes is art theft. It’s murder, mystery, and mayhem
combined with high jinks on the high seas. The novel even features a vampire.TWB Press just released my fifth dark and humorous supernatural
short story, The Files Death Forgot http://www.twbpress.com/thefilesdeathforgot.html
The Grim Reaper with a failing memory, a craving for chocolate chip cookies and
a penchant for old movies: Could this agent of death inadvertently save the world
from mass annihilation??MMy current work in progress is called Landlocked, where an inexperienced
South Florida realtor with weather issues, tries to sell her widowed grandmother’s
rural property on an isolated Western North Carolina mountaintop only to discover
the tract is landlocked, and therefore, unsalable. The book features a missing artist,
two romances and a serial killer.About the Book
Title The Widows’ GalleryGenre Women’s Fiction/RomanceAuthor Marilyn BaronBook heat level (based on movie ratings): RChildless heiress Abigail Adams Longley and three other widows
on a Mediterranean cruise bond over a Renaissance masterpiece in Florence, Italy,
and find love, friendship and joy in their joint venture to open an art gallery
at the Longley mansion in Lobster Cove, Maine.Since the death of her husband, Abigail has been lonely and drifting
in a house that’s too big and a town that’s too small. When she literally runs into
sexy widower and whale-watching excursion captain Tack Garrity on the dock, she’s
entranced by his adorable five-year-old daughter.But will Tack, who has harbored a secret crush on Abigail for
almost two decades, be able to capture her heart? A secret pact her husband made
with Tack could either tear them apart or bring them closer together and change
their lives forever.Buy This Book
The Wild Rose Press http://www.wildrosepublishing.com/maincatalog_v151/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result&search_in_description=1&keyword=the+widows+gallery+marilyn+bar&x=0&y=0Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Widows-Gallery-Lobster-Cove-ebook/dp/B00S4CHGUI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422995192&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Widows%27+GalleryAmazon (Print) http://www.amazon.com/Widows-Gallery-Marilyn-Baron/dp/1628307609/ref=sr_1_1_twi_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1422995259&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Widows%27+Gallery+paperbackBarnes and Noble http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-widows-gallery-marilyn-baron/1121178917?ean=2940150156319ARe https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-thewidows039gallery-1734443-149.htmlAbout the Author
Marilyn Baron Marilyn Baron is a corporate public relations consultant in Atlanta.
She’s a member of Marketing For Romance Writers, Romance Writers of America and
Georgia Romance Writers (GRW), recipient of the GRW 2009 Chapter Service Award and
winner or finalist in writing awards in single title, suspense romance, novel with
strong romantic elements and paranormal romance.Marilyn writes in a variety of genres, including: Humorous coming-of-middle-age
women’s fiction (The Widows’ Gallery, Stones, and Significant Others); a psychic
suspense series (Sixth Sense, Homecoming Homicides and the soon to be released Killer
Cruise); and historical romantic thrillers (Under the Moon Gate and the prequel,
Destiny: A Bermuda Love Story) for The Wild Rose Press; and dark and humorous supernatural
short stories for TWB Press (A Choir of Angels, Follow an Angel, The Stand-In Bridegroom,
Dead Mix and The Files Death Forgot).Marilyn is a member of the Roswell Reads Steering Committee and
belongs to two book clubs. A native of Miami, Florida, Marilyn now lives in Roswell,
Georgia, with her husband and they have two daughters. She graduated from The University
of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, with a Bachelor of Science in Journalism [Public
Relations sequence] and a minor in Creative Writing.When she’s not writing, she enjoys reading, going to movies,
eating Italian food and traveling. She often sets her stories in places she’s visited,
including Bermuda, Australia and Italy, where she spent six months studying in Florence
during her senior year in college.Author Social Media
Website www.marilynbaron.comBlog Savvy Authors on the 22nd of each month http://savvyauthors.com/blog/Twitter https://twitter.com/MarilynBaronPinterest http://www.pinterest.com/marilynbaron5/ -
RLF Gem Award: Top Bloggers August 2014 Romance Lives Forever #RLFblog @MarilynBaron
Last month, Romance Lives Forever had 31 posts in a 31 day month.The Top Blogger was author Marilyn Baron.Website www.marilynbaron.comTwitter https://twitter.com/MarilynBaronPinterest http://www.pinterest.com/marilynbaron5/RLF Gem Award Top Five Bloggers for the Month
(judged by page views). Congratulations to each person!- Marilyn
Baron - Pamela Moran
- Barbara
Donlon Bradley - Elise Cyr
- VS Nelson
Honorable mention: Cynthia Sax, NN LightRomance Lives Forever features authors and new books. It has a blogger’s
FAQ page with a downloadable guide and optional interviews. Readers can follow via
Google+, Networked Blogs, Linky Followers, email, an RSS feed, and there’s a blog
button readers and authors can grab. RLF takes up to three images per article, so
authors can share previous books. The blog uses author or publisher names as tags
on posts, and author Twitter handles in the titles. The site is broadcast over Triberr
with a potential reach of over a million readers via its Twitter-linked network.
Twitter mentions are also gathered in several Paper.li ezines, giving the author
additional opportunities for promotion. The Romance Lives Forever
Paper.li ezine features guest authors on its front page every day.Share your book cover on Romance Lives Forever
Limited spots to share book covers are available. Cost is $3
per month, with discounts for covers posted for one quarter and up to one year.
Covers can be changed monthly.Sign Up for a Future Post
Sign up form http://is.gd/rlfblog_requestGuest calendar http://is.gd/rlfdatesMy thanks to all who took part this month. You made Romance Lives
Forever a great place to discover new books and authors.Other participants this month in alphabetical order by first
name are:Anita Philmar, Ashley Ladd, Ashley York, Dena Garson, Eva Lefoy, Jennifer
Britt, Jennifer Kacey, JoAnne Myers, Lisa Carlisle, LM Brown, Margie Church, Mary
Caelsto, NJ Walters, Penelope Merrin, Regina Kammer, Renee Reynolds, Sam
Cheever, Sarah Makela, Sayara St Clair, Suz deMello, Tina Donahue, Tina Gayle - Marilyn
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Marilyn Baron — Stones: Books and Bling @MarilynBaron #RLFblog #humor
Stones Genre Humorous Women’s FictionAuthor Marilyn BaronBook heat level (based on movie ratings): RDesperate housewife seeks closure with first love about secret
baby on the eve of their son’s wedding.When Julie Paver’s husband Matt moves his business to Atlanta,
she is forced to leave behind her thriving jewelry boutique, Stones. The move threatens
their twenty-five-year marriage, because now if Matt isn’t out of town negotiating
a merger, he’s spending late hours on overseas phone calls with his sexy-sounding
second-in-command. Feeling neglected and unloved, Julie seeks closure by reconnecting
with her first love, Manny, when he pursues her with his Internet innuendos. Manny
is unaware he’s the father of Julie’s son, and Julie contemplates revealing the
secret to him on the eve of their son’s wedding. But would such a walk down memory
lane be worth the cost? Julie and Manny finally meet at her oceanfront condo — in
the midst of a hurricane — and elements collide to create the perfect storm in a
coming-of-middle-age crisis.Buy This Book
Publisher The Wild Rose Press http://www.wildrosepublishing.com/maincatalog_v151/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=191&products_id=5747Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Stones-Marilyn-Baron/dp/1628304413/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1408029474&sr=8-1&keywords=stones+marilyn+baronAfter Stones’ worldwide release September 26, you can find other
distribution channels and formats listed on Marilyn’s Web site at www.marilynbaron.com.Interview with Marilyn Baron
Why did you write this
book?I wanted to feature a heroine of a certain age because I’m not
getting any younger and I believe people don’t just want to read about twenty-somethings.
This book was originally called, The Colonoscopy Club, so right away you know what
age I’m talking about. In Stones, I take a humorous look at a woman who can’t seem
to get closure in her life. My central character Julie has issues. Even her issues
have issues. Stones is about how Julie deals with those issues and features the
themes of first loves and second chances.What is your favorite
genre to read?I write in a number of genres—from historical romantic thrillers
and suspense to paranormal and women’s fiction—and I love to read a variety of genres.
Among my favorite genres are thrillers, literary fiction, and romantic suspense.
I have read a lot of amazing YA lately.What is your favorite
character from fiction (not including your own characters)?Gabriel Allon in the Daniel Silva books.Do you enjoy films and/or
TV shows? Which are your favorites?I love movies and I watch a lot of TV. Some of my favorite TV
shows are Castle, Rizzoli and Isles, Major Crimes, Blue Bloods, The Good Wife, The
Bridge, and Downton Abbey.What are you working on
at the moment, and what are we likely to see from you in the coming months?I am currently finishing Book Three of my Psychic Crystal Mystery
Series. Book One is Sixth Sense; Book Two is Homecoming Homicides. Book Three is
called Murder on the Repositioning Cruise.I have a new women’s fiction book coming out this year in The
Lobster Cove Series from The Wild Rose Press (TWRP) called The Widows’ Gallery.
I’m very excited to be participating in this series. Lobster Cove is a quaint and
quirky fictional town on the coast of Maine near Bar Harbor. Participating TWRP
authors write stories across all lines as long as they’re set in Lobster Cove.Here’s the blurb for The Widows’ Gallery:Four recently widowed women meet on a Mediterranean cruise, bond
over the Renaissance masterpiece, The Birth
of Venus, in Florence, Italy, and find love, friendship and joy in their joint
venture to open an art gallery in the quaint, quirky, coastal town of Lobster Cove,
Maine.Please tell us some fun
facts about your latest book, Stones.The Colonoscopy Club (Now the published novel Stones) finaled
in the GRW Unpublished Maggie Awards for Excellence in 2005 in the Single Title
category.I lived in Florence, Italy, for six months during my junior year
in college, where I studied Art History, Italian, English, Mythology and Religion.
Part of Stones is set in Florence. The story is also set in Atlanta, Miami, and
Palm Coast. I was born in Miami and currently live in Atlanta and I own a beach
condo in Palm Coast. My central character owns an upscale jewelry boutique called
Stones, hence the name of the novel. I love jewelry, which is why I chose that career
for my heroine. My birthstone is an emerald which is why I wanted an emerald necklace
on the cover. A priceless emerald medallion is also featured prominently in the
book.In Stones, Julie is planning her son’s wedding and in real life,
I’m planning my daughter’s wedding.The first line and my favorite line of the book is “Thank
God for lint.”The book will be officially released September 26. Right now
it’s only available in paperback. It was released early in paperback in time for
my appearance on a panel at the Decatur Book Festival Saturday August 30 from 10:00
a.m. to 10:45 a.m. called “Tackling Sensitive Issues in Fiction.” Additional
information about the event is available on https://www.facebook.com/events/623254154448358/
If you’re in the Atlanta area over Labor Day I hope you’ll attend the presentation/book
signing.Author Bio
Significant Others Marilyn is a finalist in the 2014 Georgia Romance Writers Published
Maggie Award for Excellence in the category Novel with Strong Romantic Elements
for her book Significant Others.Marilyn Baron is a public relations consultant in Atlanta. She’s
a member of Marketing for Romance Writers, Romance Writers of America and Georgia
Romance Writers (GRW) and the recipient of the GRW 2009 Chapter Service Award. She
writes humorous women’s fiction, romantic thrillers/suspense, historicals and paranormal.
She has won writing awards in Single Title, Suspense Romance, Paranormal/Fantasy
Romance and Novel with Strong Romantic Elements. Marilyn blogs at Petit Fours and
Hot Tamales at www.petitfoursandhotamales.com.
She serves on the Roswell Reads steering committee.She and her sister, Sharon Goldman, just released a play about
Alzheimer’s called Memory Lane. You can find out more about Marilyn’s books and
short stories and listen to a medley of the music from Memory Lane on her Web site
at www.marilynbaron.com or view it on
YouTube at http://youtu.be/Hgi_mIdt5MA.Author Social Media
Website www.marilynbaron.comTwitter https://twitter.com/MarilynBaronPinterest http://www.pinterest.com/marilynbaron5/ -
RLF Gem Award: Top Bloggers April 2014 Romance Lives Forever #RLFblog #blogging
RLF Gem Award Last month, Romance Lives Forever had 30 posts in a 30 day month.
There was a tie for fifth place, and if we had six spots, there would have
two names listed. I’ve noted them as an honorable mention. Changeling Press took the top spots with their presentations during Publisher Week.Top Five Bloggers for the Month
(Judged by page views). Congratulations to each person!1. Changeling Press2. Marilyn
Baron3. JL Sheppard4. Marilyn Baxter5. Em Petrova5. Mary J McCoy DresselHonorable mention: Allison Merritt and Lyn AustinRomance Lives Forever features authors and new books. It has a
blogger’s FAQ page with a downloadable guide and optional interviews. Readers
can follow via Google Friend Connect, Networked Blogs, Bloglovin’, Linky
Followers, email, an RSS feed, and there’s a blog button readers and authors
can grab. RLF takes up to three images per article, so authors can share
previous books. The blog uses author or publisher names as SEO tags on posts,
and author Twitter handles in the titles. The site is broadcast over Triberr
with a potential reach of over a million readers via its Twitter-linked
network. Twitter mentions are also gathered in several Paper.li ezines, giving
the author additional opportunities for promotion. The Romance Lives Forever
Paper.li ezine features guest authors on its front page every day.Share your book cover on Romance Lives Forever
Limited spots to share book covers are available. Cost is $3
per month, with discounts for covers posted for one quarter and up to one year.
Covers can be changed monthly.Sign Up for a Future Post
Sign up form http://is.gd/rlfblog_requestGuest calendar http://is.gd/rlfdatesMy thanks to all who took part this month. You made Romance Lives
Forever a great place to discover new books and authors.Other participants this month in alphabetical order by first
name are:
Andrea R Cooper, Beverly
Ovalle, Diane Saxon, DP Denman, Karen Cino, Linda Banche, Loc Glin, Martha
O’Sullivan, Sadie Grubor, Saloni Quinby , Sarah Madison, TD Hassett, Teagan
Oliver, Virginia Kelly