• Suspense

    To Feel Again by @ToniNoelWriter #RLFblog #romanticsuspense

    Today’s featured book is To Feel Again by Toni
    Noel.

    About the Book

    Title To Feel Again
    Genre Romantic Suspense
    Author Toni Noel
    Book heat level (based on movie ratings): R
    Reclusive widow Jenny Hamilton retreats to her
    modern cabin in the Eastern Sierras, content to be cut off from the outside
    world, the victim of an abusive marriage that leaves her terrified of men.
    She spends her time writing, weaving and tending
    her animals until Tom Driscoll washes up in the creek below. Somehow Jenny
    finds the strength and courage to rescue the unconscious man and nurse him back
    to health while slowly falling in love with him.
    Then a burly intruder intent on revenge for crimes
    her late husband committed arrives and attempts to rape Jenny. Tom prevents the
    rape and saves her from harm, but the terrifying incident traumatizes her and
    all her earlier fears of men come flooding back. Convinced she can never trust
    another man, she orders Tom to leave, effectively shutting him out of her life.
    Can Tom soften Jenny’s hardened heart and teach
    her to feel again?

    Buy This Book

    Amazon http://amzn.to/1lGo0Yq
    Barnes and Noble http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/Toni+Noel?_requestid=441954
    CreateSpace  http://bit.ly/1PonOUJ

    About the Author

    Toni Noel’s love of books started in childhood, when her
    mother first read The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew to her. She
    helped start church libraries in two rural Tennessee towns and appeared before
    the City Planning Commission and the San Diego City Council to urge a library site
    be purchased. As the neighborhood spokesman for the new library the City
    Councilman for her district invited her to turn the second shovel of dirt at
    the groundbreaking for the new library. Toni’s fondest dream, to see one of her
    safe-haven-for-the-heart novels available for checkout was realized when
    Desert Breeze Publishing released Law
    Breakers and Love Makers in
    print form.

    Author Social Media

    Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/group/163604-desert-breeze-publishing/members
    Amazon Author Page  http://amzn.to/1UK3st4
  • Historical

    Time Travel: Rising Above @toninoelwriter #RLFblog

    Rising Above

    Toni Noel, welcome back to Romance Lives Forever. Let’s talk about
    your book, Rising Above.
    Genre: Historical Time Travel
    Publisher: Desert Breeze Publishing
    Cover artist: Carol Fiorillo
    Length (words): 105,000
    Heat rating: R
    Tagline: A misfit tomboy goes back in time, compromises her reputation
    with a disillusioned Pinkerton man who to her dismay insists on a marriage of convenience,
    while she longs to return to her own time.
    Blurb:
    Bad weather cuts short Wilda Stone’s hot-air balloon race, throwing
    her back into widowed lawman Hal Grantham’s time, the 1870’s. A sand storm forcing
    them off Hal’s horse and into a cave where they spend two nights, compromising Wilda’s
    reputation, and forcing Hal into a marriage of convenience. Once they make love
    Wilda realizes she has fallen in love with the terse lawman and abandons all thought
    of returning to the twenty-first century. Her stoic husband conceals his true feelings
    for her. When diphtheria– the same disease responsible for taking his first wife
    and son — threatens the silver mining town of Cerro Gordo, deep concern for Wilda’s
    welfare drives Hal to send his wife back to her own time in her balloon. His actions
    convince her Hal shuns her love and she departs, whispering a promise to return,
    without revealing her pregnancy. Once her conveyance rises beyond his reach, Hal
    realizes his mistake and launches a futile search for the woman he now readily admits
    he loves.
    Buy links:
    Desert Breeze Publishing http://is.gd/Toni_DesertBreeze
    Amazon: http://amzn.com/B009ZP5JOS
    Or from your favorite eBook store.
    What are your main characters’ names, ages, and occupations?
    Wilda Stone and Hal Grantham. 28 and 32. In her other life Wilda
    was a flag person on a Caltrans road crew. In Cerro Gordo
    the only acceptable work to fill her time is helping out in the kitchen of the American
    Hotel, a totally unacceptable activity for an awkward outdoor girl who can’t cook.
    Hal is a disillusioned undercover Pinkerton agent ready for a
    change.

    Interview

    How do you come up with ideas?
    Inspiration strikes me at the oddest times, and in unexpected
    places. Usually it’s through something I see, or hear. A boarded up house in a ritzy
    neighborhood we were driving through inspired Decisive Moments. A network news story
    about the rising birthrate in a faraway Irish town inspired Fairy Dusted. A weekend
    stay in the refurbished bunk house of a restored silver mining town inspired Rising
    Above.
    What do you enjoy most about
    writing?
    I love the freedom of being my own boss, and the chance to escape
    reality while I write, but I also enjoy the anticipation I feel when a friend buys
    one of my books. I can’t wait to hear how they liked it, whether it made their day
    a little happier or gave them something new to think about.
    What do you enjoy most about
    life?
    The thing I enjoy most is simply being alive. I am so blessed.
    A loving family. Good health. A wealth of knowledge at my fingertips and time to
    explore all of it to the fullest. It’s a great life.
    Where do you start when writing?
    Research, plotting, outline, or…?
    The inspiration comes first, then a character’s name or the novel’s
    setting. Next, as ideas come to me, I list fifty scenes necessary to move my characters
    through the story and reach a satisfactory conclusion. I’m very visual, so I transfer
    the scenes to stickies, arrange those on a story board, and after identifying the
    major turning points and the blackest moment for each character, I’m ready to write.
    The beauty of this method is the stickies can be moved around countless times, and
    the scenes rearranged as I write to give the story ending a satisfying resolution,
    showing ways in which the main characters have changed.
    What are some jobs you’ve done
    that would end up in a book?
    In my teens I called square dances for the Y.M.C.A. and later
    did alterations for a cleaners. When we were without health insurance, and our four
    young children had run up a big debt at their doctor’s, I made drapes for his new
    office to settle our account. I’ve also performed puppet shows and taught crafts
    at nursing homes. Before retiring, I supervised a computerized payroll, and included
    some of my office experiences in Temp to Permanent, a romantic suspense.
    What do you hope readers take
    with them after reading your work?
    I want my readers to feel satisfied with their read. I write
    novels about finding a safe haven for the heart and firmly believe this is what
    everyone hopes to find. I found my safe haven early in life, but it still delights
    me when the book I’m reading ends with the heroine finding her safe haven in the
    arms of her newly found love.
    Picture yourself as a store.
    Considering your personality and lifestyle, what type of products would be sold
    there?
    I would specialize in classically styled upscale dresses and
    suits, go-to outfits a woman reaches into her closet for every day. I’d have a complete
    selection of leather boots in a variety of styles and widths. The leather purses
    I carry will have wide openings and no places for lipsticks and car keys to hide.
    I’d showcase earrings with silver or gold posts for pierced with only snap closures,
    no easily-lost separate parts. In the casual clothing department you’ll find quality
    merchandise for travel, spectator sports and working out all in one place, the huggable
    woolens and cashmeres incredibly soft to the touch, the baby terry and fleece silky
    smooth next to your skin.
    As a child, what was your favorite
    thing about school?
    I loved the countless opportunities for expanding my horizons
    school provided. I had endless curiosity and still question everything. My favorite
    question is “Why?”
    If you came with a warning
    label, what would it say?
    Caution. Contents under extreme pressure and with good cause
    will likely explode. (I inherited my father’s volatile temper.)

    Please Fill in the Blanks

    I love vegetarian pizza with artichokes.
    I’m always ready for fun.
    When I’m alone I eat dinner on our best china. It makes me
    feel like I’m eating out
    .
    You’d never be able to tell, but I was the head cheerleader
    for my high school
    .
    If I had a halo it would be bent.
    If I could crochet I’d own that sweater I’ve been admiring.
    I can never diet for long because I love to eat and
    have no willpower
    .

    My Booklist

    Law Breakers and Love Makers, soon in print, too.
    Temp to Permanent
    Decisive Moments
    Restored Dreams
    Fairy Dusted
    Rising Above

    Books Coming Soon

    To Feel Again
    Fragile Bonds
    Toni Noel
    Homeward Bound

    About the Author

    Toni Noel’s Novels… Safe havens for the heart.
    Toni Noel’s love of books started in childhood, when her
    mother first read The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew to her. She helped
    start church libraries in two rural Tennessee
    towns and appeared before the City Planning Commission and the San Diego City
    Council to urge a site be purchased. As the neighborhood spokesman for the new
    library the City Councilman for her district invited her to turn the second
    shovel of dirt at the groundbreaking for the new library. Toni’s fondest dream,
    to see one of her safe-haven-for-the-heart novels available for checkout there
    may soon be fulfilled. Desert Breeze Publishing will release in print form in
    November the author’s first published novel Law Breakers and Love Makers.

    Find Me Here

  • Paranormal

    Time Travel: Rising Above @toninoelwriter

    Toni Noel, welcome to Romance Lives Forever. Let’s talk about
    your book, Rising Above.

    Genre: Historical Time Travel
    Buy links:
    Desert Breeze Publishing http://is.gd/Toni_DesertBreeze
    Amazon: http://amzn.com/B009ZP5JOS
    Or from your favorite eBook store.
    Publisher: Desert Breeze Publishing
    Cover artist: Carol Fiorillo
    Length (words): 105,000
    Heat rating: R
    Tagline: A misfit tomboy goes back in time, compromises her reputation
    with a disillusioned Pinkerton man who to her dismay insists on a marriage of convenience,
    while she longs to return to her own time.
    Blurb:
    Bad weather cuts short Wilda Stone’s hot-air balloon race, throwing
    her back into widowed lawman Hal Grantham’s time, the 1870’s. A sand storm forcing
    them off Hal’s horse and into a cave where they spend two nights, compromising Wilda’s
    reputation, and forcing Hal into a marriage of convenience. Once they make love
    Wilda realizes she has fallen in love with the terse lawman and abandons all thought
    of returning to the twenty-first century. Her stoic husband conceals his true feelings
    for her. When diphtheria– the same disease responsible for taking his first wife
    and son — threatens the silver mining town of Cerro Gordo, deep concern for Wilda’s
    welfare drives Hal to send his wife back to her own time in her balloon. His actions
    convince her Hal shuns her love and she departs, whispering a promise to return,
    without revealing her pregnancy. Once her conveyance rises beyond his reach, Hal
    realizes his mistake and launches a futile search for the woman he now readily admits
    he loves.
    What are your main characters’
    names, ages, and occupations?
    Wilda Stone and Hal Grantham. 28 and 32. In her other life Wilda
    was a flag person on a Caltrans road crew. In Cerro Gordo
    the only acceptable work to fill her time is helping out in the kitchen of the American
    Hotel, a totally unacceptable activity for an awkward outdoor girl who can’t cook.
    Hal is a disillusioned undercover Pinkerton agent ready for a
    change.

    Interview

    How do you come up with
    ideas?
    Inspiration strikes me at the oddest times, and in unexpected
    places. Usually it’s through something I see, or hear. A boarded up house in a ritzy
    neighborhood we were driving through inspired Decisive Moments. A network news story
    about the rising birthrate in a faraway Irish town inspired Fairy Dusted. A weekend
    stay in the refurbished bunk house of a restored silver mining town inspired Rising
    Above.
    What do you enjoy most about writing?
    I love the freedom of being my own boss, and the chance to escape
    reality while I write, but I also enjoy the anticipation I feel when a friend buys
    one of my books. I can’t wait to hear how they liked it, whether it made their day
    a little happier or gave them something new to think about.
    What do you enjoy most about life?
    The thing I enjoy most is simply being alive. I am so blessed.
    A loving family. Good health. A wealth of knowledge at my fingertips and time to
    explore all of it to the fullest. It’s a great life.
    Where do you start when writing? Research, plotting, outline,
    or…?
    The inspiration comes first, then a character’s name or the novel’s
    setting. Next, as ideas come to me, I list fifty scenes necessary to move my characters
    through the story and reach a satisfactory conclusion. I’m very visual, so I transfer
    the scenes to stickies, arrange those on a story board, and after identifying the
    major turning points and the blackest moment for each character, I’m ready to write.
    The beauty of this method is the stickies can be moved around countless times, and
    the scenes rearranged as I write to give the story ending a satisfying resolution,
    showing ways in which the main characters have changed.
    What are some jobs you’ve done that would end up in a book?
    In my teens I called square dances for the Y.M.C.A. and later
    did alterations for a cleaners. When we were without health insurance, and our four
    young children had run up a big debt at their doctor’s, I made drapes for his new
    office to settle our account. I’ve also performed puppet shows and taught crafts
    at nursing homes. Before retiring, I supervised a computerized payroll, and included
    some of my office experiences in Temp to Permanent, a romantic suspense.
    What do you hope readers take with them after reading your
    work?
    I want my readers to feel satisfied with their read. I write
    novels about finding a safe haven for the heart and firmly believe this is what
    everyone hopes to find. I found my safe haven early in life, but it still delights
    me when the book I’m reading ends with the heroine finding her safe haven in the
    arms of her newly found love.
    Picture yourself as a store. Considering your personality
    and lifestyle, what type of products would be sold there?
    I would specialize in classically styled upscale dresses and
    suits, go-to outfits a woman reaches into her closet for every day. I’d have a complete
    selection of leather boots in a variety of styles and widths. The leather purses
    I carry will have wide openings and no places for lipsticks and car keys to hide.
    I’d showcase earrings with silver or gold posts for pierced with only snap closures,
    no easily-lost separate parts. In the casual clothing department you’ll find quality
    merchandise for travel, spectator sports and working out all in one place, the huggable
    woolens and cashmeres incredibly soft to the touch, the baby terry and fleece silky
    smooth next to your skin.
    As a child, what was your favorite thing about school?
    I loved the countless opportunities for expanding my horizons
    school provided. I had endless curiosity and still question everything. My favorite
    question is “Why?”
    If you came with a warning label, what would it say?
    Caution. Contents under extreme pressure and with good cause
    will likely explode. (I inherited my father’s volatile temper.)

    Please Fill in the Blanks

    I love vegetarian pizza with artichokes.
    I’m always ready for fun.
    When I’m alone I eat dinner on our best china. It makes me
    feel like I’m eating out
    .
    You’d never be able to tell, but I was the head cheerleader
    for my high school
    .
    If I had a halo it would be bent.
    If I could crochet I’d own that sweater I’ve been admiring.
    I can never diet for long because I love to eat and
    have no willpower
    .

    About the Author

    Toni Noel’s Novels… Safe havens for the heart.
    Toni Noel’s love of books started in childhood, when her
    mother first read The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew to her. She helped
    start church libraries in two rural Tennessee
    towns and appeared before the City Planning Commission and the San Diego City
    Council to urge a site be purchased. As the neighborhood spokesman for the new
    library the City Councilman for her district invited her to turn the second
    shovel of dirt at the groundbreaking for the new library. Toni’s fondest dream,
    to see one of her safe-haven-for-the-heart novels available for checkout there
    may soon be fulfilled. Desert Breeze Publishing will release in print form in
    November the author’s first published novel Law Breakers and Love Makers.

    Find Me Here

    Buy links:
    Desert Breeze Publishing http://is.gd/Toni_DesertBreeze
    Amazon: http://amzn.com/B009ZP5JOS
    Or from your favorite eBook store.