Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Title: Tied Together (The Dark Angels: Book Two) Author: Z. Allora Publisher: Rocky Ridge Books Pages/Word Count: 257 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Josh has loved Robin since the day they met, although he never dared to follow his heart. After the two are kicked out of their house, a night of despair turns into... Continue Reading →
Title: Conflicted Author: Louise Lyons Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 300 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: Two competing gangs of car and drag racing enthusiasts with a shared history of pain and rivalry leading to outright hatred. Two men from opposite sides of the tracks, yet with more in common than they’d like to admit.... Continue Reading →
Title: Happy Holidays Series: The Dark Angels Publisher: Rocky Ridge Books Category: Holiday Romance/Erotica Cover Artist: PL Nunn Blurb: What do erotic sex toys and Hanukkah have to do with each other? Absolutely nothing unless you're a member of the famous rock band The Dark Angels and the shy but kinky Robin gives gifts that... Continue Reading →
Title: Springtime 1962, The Lawson YMCA Author: Owen Keehnen Publisher: Wilde City Press Pages/Word Count: 72 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: A diary is found in a secondhand bookstore. The narrator opens the dusty cover and discovers that the book is the intimate diary of a man named Joseph. Reading the entries, the narrator is... Continue Reading →
Title: Smoky Mountain Dreams Author: Leta Blake Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 425 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: Sometimes holding on means letting go. After giving up on his career as a country singer in Nashville, Christopher Ryder is happy enough performing at the Smoky Mountain Dreams theme park in Tennessee. But while his beloved Gran... Continue Reading →
Title: The Dream Alchemist (Somnus: Book One) Author: Joanna Chambers Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 223 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: When the sun goes down, their passion awakens…and so do their nightmares. Centuries ago, a man with Bryn Llewelyn’s dreamwalking ability would have been a shaman or a priest. In this time, he’s merely... Continue Reading →
Each year, Riptide Publishing releases a holiday collection in support of an LGBTQ charity. Twenty percent of all proceeds from the Share the Love collection will be donated to the It Gets Better Project. This collection would not be possible without the talent and generosity of its authors, who have brought us the following holiday stories:... Continue Reading →
Waking Up In Romance The Dream Alchemist is set partly in the ‘real’ waking world and partly in Somnus, my imagined world of dreams. One of my heroes, Bryn Llewelyn, is a dreamwalker. To a dreamwalker, Somnus is as real as the waking world, probably more so, in Bryn’s case, given that his constant attempts... Continue Reading →
Title: Outing the Quarterback Author: Tara Lain Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 216 Pages Rating: 3.5 Stars Blurb: Will Ashford lives in two closets. He meets his wealthy father’s goals as both the quarterback for the famous SCU football team and a business major, but secretly he attends art school and longs to live as... Continue Reading →
Title: Sleeping on the Job Author: Missouri Dalton Publisher: Torquere Press Pages/Word Count: 118 pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: At sixteen, Simon Murphy was an accomplished jewel thief, at eighteen he was released from a boy’s reform school and these days, he’s a detective with Chicago’s Night Shift. When a familiar killer strikes again, Simon... Continue Reading →
Title: The Walls of Troy Author: L.A. Witt Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 255 pages Rating: 4.5 stars Blurb: Just when the pieces begin to add up, danger blows them all apart… MA1 Iskander Ayhan’s orders are simple: stay with Admiral Dalton’s son as a plainclothes bodyguard while the kid attends university classes. So typical—a... Continue Reading →
Does size really matter? Get your mind out of the gutter, folks! I’m talking about the length of your holiday stories not wieners!! LOL So back to the question, does the size of a holiday book effect whether or not you purchase or read it? Do you like short stories, novellas, or novels? All of... Continue Reading →
TNA: Hi, Skylar, thanks so much for being here with us today. Why don’t we start off having you tell us a little bit about yourself? Skylar: Thank you for hosting me, TNA. I’m listening to Mary Lambert’s song Secrets right now, and like Mary---“ my shit’s not in order,” and yep, I’m okay... Continue Reading →
Title: When One Door Opens Author: J.D. Ruskin Narrator:: K.C. Kelly Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Run Time: 8 Hours, 50 Minutes Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: Logan Sellers's parole officer has issued three commandments: stay sober, stay employed, and stay out of trouble. At first Logan thought those three simple rules would be easy to follow. But... Continue Reading →
Title: Dilemma Author: Noah Willoughby Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 195 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Though surrounded by people on a daily basis, Chuck is a miserably lonely man, desperately seeking companionship and affection. Not only does his shy personality make him reluctant to approach others, but he also harbors a secret side of himself... Continue Reading →
Title: Hell on Wheels (Bluewater Bay: Book Three) Author: Z.A. Maxfield Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 250 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Nash is the reliable one in the Holly family, the guy everyone counts on to keep things going. His genius twin brother is off at university, so Nash runs the family’s auto repair... Continue Reading →
Jagdschmuck. To my American ears, that word sounds like an awful insult. Can’t you just hear it? “Ugh, she's such a Jagdschmuck!” But the word in German describes the long tradition of setting small hunting trophies such as the teeth, antler, or tusk of certain legally hunted animals into jewelry which is then worn by... Continue Reading →
So good to be back here at the Novel Approach on this stop of my Hell On Wheels Blog Tour. For those following along, my Blog Tour giveaway plan is as follows: 1.) Comment here for the chance to win an ebook. My assistant William will randomly pick a winner for each blog I visit,... Continue Reading →
Title: Nothing Special Author: Jay Northcote Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 187 pages Rating: 4 stars Blurb: Noah thinks he’s nothing special. Average height, a bit on the skinny side, and cute but rather geeky, he’s relentlessly ordinary. He certainly doesn’t expect to be noticed by Sol, the gorgeous dark-haired stranger Noah sees on his... Continue Reading →
Title: Matches Author: Rick R. Reed Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 17 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Christmas Eve should be a night filled with magic and love. But for Anderson, down on his luck and homeless in Chicago's frigid chill, it's a fight for survival. Whether he's sleeping on the el, or holed up in... Continue Reading →
Title: Talk About Happy Endings Author: Kol Anderson Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 102 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Five couples try to find love on Christmas and in the process discover themselves. Review: Have you ever made a Christmas Wish? Are you familiar with the saying, "be careful what you wish for?" Well, in this... Continue Reading →
First of all, thank you for having me here at The Novel Approach. I appreciate you giving me a chance to talk about my books. My newest book out is Barefoot Dancing, book six of my Rags to Riches series. It’s the last one (so far) of the series and features Kendall, who we met... Continue Reading →
How would you like a chance to win an e-copy of Mary Calmes' Fighting Instinct? Pretty great, right? You can enter in the drawing by clicking the Rafflecopter link below. The contest deadline is Midnight Pacific time on Saturday, December 6, 2014. The winner will be selected and announced on Sunday, the 7th, and the... Continue Reading →
Title: Who Knows the Storm (The Vigilante: Book One) Author: Tere Michaels Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 240 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: In a dystopian near future, New York City has become the epicenter of decadence—gambling, the flesh trade, a playground for the wealthy. And underneath? Crime, fueled by “Dead Bolt,” a destructive designer... Continue Reading →
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