"Heads Up" for June 2017

In my family, the biggest month for birthdays is May. So far it also has been the biggest month for blog posts. May even included my first non-book related post. 

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  🔥 1st = Release Tour: The Bingo Hall Mystery 🔥 2nd = Romance Between the Pages' Weekly Podcast Interview 🔥 3rd = Promo Tour: Love in Times of War 🔥 5th = Blog Tour: How to Ruin Your  Reputation in 10 Days 🔥 6th = Blog Tour: Taming the CEO 🔥 7th = Release Tour: A.P. Hallmark 🔥 8th = Release Tour For Bitter Legacy 🔥 9th = Romance Between the Pages' Weekly Podcast Interview 🔥 12th = Blog Tour: The Highlander's Viking Bride 🔥 16th = Romance Between the Pages' Weekly Podcast Interview 🔥 19th = Release Tour: Steel Kisses 🔥 20th =  Blog Tour: Her Surprise Engagement 🔥 21st = Blog Tour: Her Outback Cowboy 🔥 23rd = Romance Between the Pages' Weekly Podcast Interview 🔥 27th = Blog Tour: Duke of Defiance

Promo Tour: Angela Scavone (Author)

PROMO TOUR FOR ANGELA SCAVONE

Love by the Book & A Journey Home

Release Tour: S.K. Ryder (Author)

DARK LORD OF THE NIGHT

Dark Destinies, book 2
by S.K. Ryder

Romance Between the Pages' Weekly Podcast Interview - May 26, 2017

Ever wondered about the personalities behind your favorite books? Victoria Danann's new podcast with Riley J. Ford has an incredible lineup of authors booked through the spring. No question is out of bounds. Check it out!

THIS WEEK'S BEST SELLING AUTHOR...

KATY REGNERY!

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Katy Regnery started her writing career by enrolling in a short story class in January 2012. One year later, she signed her first contract and Katy’s first novel was published in September 2013.

Twenty-five books later, Katy claims authorship of the multi-titled, New York Times and USA Today Blueberry Lane Series, which follows the English, Winslow, Rousseau, Story, and Ambler families of Philadelphia; the six-book, bestselling ~a modern fairytale~ series; and several other standalone novels and novellas.

Katy’s first modern fairytale romance, The Vixen and the Vet, was nominated for a RITA® in 2015 and won the 2015 Kindle Book Award for romance. Katy’s boxed set, The English Brothers Boxed Set, Books #1–4, hit the USA Today bestseller list in 2015, and her Christmas story, Marrying Mr. English, appeared on the list a week later. In May 2016, Katy’s Blueberry Lane collection, The Winslow Brothers Boxed Set, Books #1-4, became a New York Times E-book bestseller.

In 2016, Katy signed a print-only agreement with Spencerhill Press. As a result, her Blueberry Lane paperback books will now be distributed to brick and mortar bookstores all over the United States.

Katy lives in the relative wilds of northern Fairfield County, Connecticut, where her writing room looks out at the woods, and her husband, two young children, two dogs, and one Blue Tonkinese kitten create just enough cheerful chaos to remind her that the very best love stories begin at home.

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Blog Tour: Elizabeth Keysian's Unmasking The Earl

Meet the Author:

Elizabeth first started writing fiction when she was eight, encouraged to do so by her Head Teacher father, who needed something to keep her quiet during school holidays. Her favorite topics were mermaids, ghosts, Norman knights and quests, and she illustrated and decorated her own books. She emerged from the world of her imagination to read History at the University of London, after which she spent many years working as an archaeologist and artifact illustrator. She then became a primary school teacher, after which she moved to museum education work, and display and collections management. Elizabeth has been involved in Medieval, Tudor, and English Civil War re-enactment and has enjoyed sword-play and traditional archery, excelling in neither. She lived for seven years on a Knights Templar estate in Essex where she pursued her interest in historical textiles, cookery and medicine. She loves anything to do with the past, and still looks down holes in the ground to see if there’s anything archaeological in them. There generally isn’t. She has written fifteen historical romances since moving to the West of England in 1997, the landscape and history of which have inspired the “Wayward in Wessex” series. Book #1 in the series, “Distracting the Duke”, has recently been published by Entangled Publishing.

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About the Book:

Devastated by the disappearance of his sister, the Earl of Stranraer has gone to extraordinary lengths to find the notorious rake responsible, and enters his household incognito to wreak his vengeance. But his enemy has an unexpected protector—the innocent but headstrong Miss Cassandra Blythe.

Cassie is determined to learn the art of seduction. But she is blindsided by her body's thrilling response to the wrong man—a mysterious servant who shows up at the most inauspicious moments to spoil her lessons in love with warnings of her imminent ruin. When she learns the handsome servant's identity and the reason for his deception, she resolves to help Stranraer, but only if he abandons his vow to destroy his enemy.

The earl is sorely tempted to give the meddlesome beauty a lesson in seduction she’ll never forget. But she turns the tables, and he gets his own lesson in forgiveness…and love.

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Check out the other books in the Wayward in Wessex series:

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• $15 Amazon Gift Card + an eBook copy of Distracting the Duke

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Sea's Fire – Interview * Did you use any of your own experience as inspiration? I have done, actually, yes, but just snapshots really. Little incidents from my own life inspire both the action and the backdrops of my books. For example, I once found just the sleeve and half of a Regency bodice in a museum collection, and through wondering what had happened to the rest of the garment, I came up with a First Meet scene for the hero and heroine of a Regency romance. * On average, how long does the writing process take? Forever. It never stops. Especially when you start doing it professionally. Honestly though, it varies enormously. I have written first drafts in a month, as part of the NaNoWriMo challenge, and produced a second draft in 9 days, but only when pushed! Yet it can also take me 6 months to write the first draft of a fresh book, due to having other commitments. * When did you realize you wanted a career in writing? Embarrassed cough. I've been wanting to be an author since the age of about 8, but life, work, and the distraction of all my other hobbies got in the way. I've been making a much more determined effort over the last 17 years or so, and last year, when I was made redundant from the day job, I just went for it, all-out! * If you weren't an author, what other career paths would you have taken? I've already taken them. I'm too much of a wreck to do anything other than writing now! But my previous careers have included archaeology, teaching (particularly children with Special Educational Needs) and museums work. If I'd done better in Biology than Latin at school, I might have gone into psychology. When I left university with a History degree, I was either going to do a Ph.D. on medieval saints' lives, or go into the police force. Eccentric choices, I know. As it was, I knelt in the mud on an Anglo-Saxon site in the English Midlands and became hooked on archaeology for the next 9 years! * Out of the characters that you created, who is your favorite? I love James, Viscount Tidworth, from my Wattpad novel, Handsome is as Handsome does. That's because the main character is based on a real person, so I can live vicariously through my heroine during the course of the book. It is due out in 2018 with Entangled Select Historical and may have the word "Viscount" in the title. If you want to find out more about this book and its hero, it's a good idea to hook up to my Facebook page. * What advice would you give to someone looking to be a writer? 1. Never give up 2. Let other people read your work and give you feedback. Free book sites like Wattpad are excellent for this. 3. Get yourself some writer friends who are in the same situation as you. There is so much we can learn from each other (yes, I'm talking about you, Anna Albo and Shelley Inon!). 4. Submit your book to a range of different publishers in your genre. I stuck with just the one until last year. It was a mistake. 5. Enter writing competitions. It's a good way to get your name out there, and get others reading your work. I was "discovered" through a Twitter Pitch contest, so it's definitely worth doing. * What kind of research (if any) was required for any of your books? I've been involved in history and heritage most of my life, and have my own personal reference library, which includes a lot of primary sources. If I'm in any doubt about the detail I know where to check it up! I've also done authentic re-enactment, so the "feel" of an historical period comes naturally to me. Like me, my partner has spent his life involved in archaeology and heritage, so if I'm feeling really lazy, I just ask him! *How long after you finish a book do you start another one? There is always a book on the go, at some level or other. It's like a kind of virtual juggling act. Currently I'm writing the final chapters of a book featuring the relationship between a mysterious gypsy healer and a very proper Regency lady who has a vivid imagination. At the same time I'm about to delve into the edits for book #3 in the "Wayward in Wessex" series and the revisions for my first Select Historical book. I also find myself dreaming up new plots which I have to write down before they float off again into the ether from whence they came. I suppose what I'm basically saying is that there is NO time gap between finishing one book and starting the next—when you start writing professionally, it becomes your life. Thank you so much for interviewing me, and providing such interesting and thought-provoking questions!

Blog Tour: Victoria James's The Doctor's Redemption

Meet the Author:

Victoria James is a romance writer living near Toronto. She is a mother to two young children, one very disorderly feline, and wife to her very own hero. Victoria attended Queen’s University and graduated with a degree in English Literature. She then earned a degree in Interior Design. After the birth of herVi first child she began pursuing her life-long passion of writing. Her dream of being a published romance author was realized by Entangled in 2012. Victoria is living her dream— staying home with her children and conjuring up happy endings for her characters. Victoria would love to hear from her readers! You can visit her at www.victoriajames.ca or Twitter @vicjames101 or send her an email at Victoria@victoriajames.ca.

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About the Book:

Gwen Bailey has been busy taking care of everyone but herself. After a tragedy tore her family apart, she put her dreams aside to be with family. Now that her life is getting back on track, and her new Chocolaterie is open, she can concentrate on snagging the handsome, mysterious customer who has her dreaming about her own happily-ever-after...

Doctor Luke Thomson has spent the last five years filled with guilt. He hopes to make amends in Shadow Creek, however he doesn't count on falling for the adorable and gorgeous Gwen Bailey. He vows to not get involved with her, but she's too sweet to resist. It's only a matter of time, though, before the truth comes out. Luke knows there's no way Gwen will look at him the same way once she discovers his secret...

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Check out the other books in the Shadow Creek, Montana series:

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• $15 Amazon Gift Card

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Release Tour: Too Many Women in the Room

TOO MANY WOMEN IN THE ROOM

Gilda Greco Mystery series, book 2
by Joanne Guidoccio

Solo Artist Exhibition: Dreamscapes

Every artist wants and hopes the pieces that they create are unique. I may be a bit bias, but I believe that the work of this particular artist is unique. She uses material that I never saw any other artist use.

Cathy Jacobs's solo art exhibition included this piece entiled "Eugenie Loops" was on display.

I first noticed the hollowed out circles. When I saw the title, I had planned on asking Cathy if the piece and any relation to our grandmother. Before I had the chance, however, I looked  back and saw images of Grandma in the piece. I love Cathy's style, but because the images of the woman was the reason this was my favorite piece in this exhibition.

Pre-order Blast: Chauffeur

THE CHAUFFEUR

by A.P. Hallmark

Romance Between the Pages' Weekly Podcast Interview - May 19, 2017

Ever wondered about the personalities behind your favorite books? Victoria Danann's new podcast with Riley J. Ford has an incredible lineup of authors booked through the spring. No question is out of bounds. Check it out!

THIS WEEK'S BEST SELLING AUTHOR...

MELANIE HARLOW!

Melanie Harlow likes her martinis dry, her heels high, and her history with the naughty bits left in. When she's not writing or reading, she gets her kicks from TV series like VEEP, Game of Thrones, House of Cards, and Homeland. She occasionally runs three miles, but only so she can have more gin and steak.

Melanie is the author of AFTER WE FALL, MAN CANDY, the HAPPY CRAZY LOVE series, the FRENCHED series, and the sexy historical SPEAK EASY duet, set in the 1920s. She lifts her glass to romance readers and writers from her home near Detroit, MI, where she lives with her husband, two daughters, and pet rabbit.

She is represented by Rebecca Friedman of Friedman Literary.

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Release Blast: Food & Romance

FOOD & ROMANCE GO TOGETHER
VOL 1: AN ANTHOLOGY

Release Tour: Behind the Door

BEHIND THE DOOR

Behind the Love series, book 4
by P.C. Zick

Release Tour: Luck of the Draw

LUCK OF THE DRAW

Release Tour: Enchanter

ENCHANTER

The Giver of Life Trilogy, book 1
by Kristy Centeno

Promo Tour: Forever's Fight

FOREVER'S FIGHT

Forever Creek Shifter, Book 1
by Marissa Dobson

Romance Between the Pages' Weekly Podcast Interview - May 12, 2017

Ever wondered about the personalities behind your favorite books? Victoria Danann's new podcast with Riley J. Ford has an incredible lineup of authors booked through the spring. No question is out of bounds. Check it out!

THIS WEEK'S BEST SELLING AUTHOR...

MICHELLE FOX!

USA Today and NY Times bestselling author Michelle Fox lives in the Midwest with her husband, kids, the occasional exchange student and a rambunctious puppy named Comet (who is going to be the death of her someday!). She loves fantasy and romance, which makes writing paranormal romance a natural fit. She also thinks her readers rock and always enjoys hearing from them!

In addition to writing, Michelle is the founder of the Wolf Pack, an active Facebook community for shifter romance fans.

In her spare time, she's been known to shake her bon-bon at Zumba, make spectacular cheesecakes, hoard vintage costume jewelry and eat way too much ice cream (Ben and Jerry's Karamel Sutra for the win!).

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Release Tour: Tempting Tessa