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Welcome to Stitch Read Cook's weekly feature!! A Day in the Life of..... This is where us bloggers & fans get a glimpse inside the days of our favorite authors! ------------------- So here’s the thing. I love to write about fictional people, but I feel very uncomfortable writing about myself. So let’s dispense with the biography and I’ll tell you a story. And everyone knows that all the best stories start with . . . Once upon a time there was a little girl who walked around with her head in the clouds. While the other kids paid attention to the world around them, this little girl (For clarity’s sake, let’s just call her Katie.) spent her days dreaming. The dreams varied. One day Katie might be a princess who was rescued by a prince on a three-legged horse (Perfection can be so boring.), and the next day she might find herself as an overworked mother of ten. (Mothers are wonderful heroines, don’t you agree?) This playacting was acceptable when Katie was little, but as s

Welcome to Stitch Read Cook's weekly feature!! A Day in the Life of..... This is where us bloggers & fans get a glimpse inside the days of our favorite authors! ------------------- Macy Beckett is an unrepentant escapist who left teaching to write hot and humorous romances. No offense to her former students, but her new career is way more fun! She lives just outside Cincinnati in the appropriately-named town of Loveland, Ohio, with her husband and three children. In addition to romance, she publishes young adult science fiction under the name Melissa Landers. Visit her on the web at macybeckett.com . A Day in the Life of.. Greetings, voyeurs! I’m romance author, Macy Beckett, and I’d like to welcome you to a day in my life. If you assume an author’s existence is a whirlwind of book signings and glitzy parties, allow me to shatter your illusions. But don’t worry—I’ll try to be gentle. Here’s what a typical day looks like for me: 7:00 am: Awake. Stumble directly dow

The first time I fell in love it was with a pair of blue eyes and a wide dimpled grin. “Your old man loves ya, Danny girl,” He whispered. “You never ever forget that, yeah?” I never did. And I never thought I could ever love any man as much as I loved my father. But as we grow, we change, we begin to make our own decisions and thus become independent and self sufficient and start turning away from our parents and turning to others. We form friendships, strong bonds and ties and begin experiencing life outside of the bubble we grew up inside of. And we fall in love…a second time. The second time I fell in love it was with a badly scarred face, the stuff of nightmares; the sort of disfigurement that mothers steer their children away from. Ugly, jagged slashes marred the skin from the top of his skull, down over his right eye, an eye that had been dug out of his face with a serrated blade. The scars continued across his cheek, over his lips and down his neck, ending at the top of

  Welcome to Stitch Read Cook's weekly feature!! A Day in the Life of..... This is where us bloggers & fans get a glimpse inside the days of our favorite authors!   Gilly Fraser is - in no particular order - a Writer, Reader, Horse-Rider, Animal-Lover, Columnist, PR person, DVD maker, Media Studies Tutor - oh yes, and a totally abysmal housekeeper.  She learned her craft as a Journalist on newspapers and radio before moving on to Border Television in Cumbria (in the north of England) where she spent most of her career. When she decided to go Freelance, she hit the ground running and hasn’t really stopped since.  Gilly had nine books published by Harlequin Mills and Boon under the pen-name of Rachel Elliot , but is now self-publishing under her own name. Her first self-published book ‘Forbidden Love and other stories’ is available for download from Amazon and Smashwords - and she has a second book ‘The Best Afternoon Ever!’ just waiting in the wings. Forbidden Love is

Title:   Kate Jones 1 – 4 Author:   D V Berkom Genre:   Thriller, Suspense Pages:   250 Published:   July 2012 Source:   FMB Author Promotions Buy Links:   Amazon , Smashwords Synopsis: A boxed set of four novellas in the best-selling Kate Jones Thriller Series. Kate Jones Thriller Series Vol. 1 includes the complete text for the following four novellas: BAD SPIRITS (Books 1-5): Kate Jones is on the run with a backpack full of money, intent on finding her way back to the United States from Mexico. Unfortunately, a ruthless drug lord named Salazar is just as intent on finding her, retrieving his stolen money, and making her pay for ever having left him. Is there anyone she can trust? DEAD OF WINTER : Kate Jones is hiding out in small town Alaska when she witnesses an execution-style murder. Convinced the killers are Salazar's men and desperate to stop them from finding her, she reports the crime to local law enforcement, hoping to put them off her trail so she can escape. DEATH

"...Great story, fast-paced, quick read and all around fun!" "...it's a non-stop thrill ride..." "...It's fast-paced from the get go and the action continues through to the end. This is how I like my books!" Kate Jones Thriller Series Vol. 1 includes the complete text for the following four novellas: BAD SPIRITS (Books 1-5): Kate Jones is on the run with a backpack full of money, intent on finding her way back to the United States from Mexico. Unfortunately, a ruthless drug lord named Salazar is just as intent on finding her, retrieving his stolen money, and making her pay for ever having left him. Is there anyone she can trust? DEAD OF WINTER: Kate Jones is hiding out in small town Alaska when she witnesses an execution-style murder. Convinced the killers are Salazar's men and desperate to stop them from finding her, she reports the crime to local law enforcement, hoping to put them off her trail so she can escape. DEATH RIT

  Two fantastic authors – Laurel McKee and Isobel Carr are stopping by today to share their newest releases on the “Sinful Seduction” tour! Laurel is the pen name for regency romance writer Amanda McCabe. Amanda wrote her first romance at the age of sixteen--a vast historical epic starring all her friends as the characters, written secretly during algebra class (and her parents wondered why math was not her strongest subject...) She's never since used algebra, but her books have been nominated for many awards, including the RITA Award, the Romantic Times BOOK Reviews Reviewers' Choice Award, the Booksellers Best, the National Readers Choice Award, and the Holt Medallion. She lives in Oklahoma with a menagerie of two cats, a Pug, and a very bossy miniature Poodle, along with far too many books. When not writing or reading, she loves taking dance classes, collecting cheesy travel souvenirs, and watching the Food Network--even though she doesn't cook. Email her at

Gabriele loves to recreate an era in which she can immerse herself (and readers), by weaving compelling stories around meticulously researched facts. Her characters are best friends, whom others are now calling "cherished friends". If you want a glimpse of her world, visit her book trailers on YouTube - for the first 2 Muskoka Novels and for the third . Not being able to leave all her extensive research on the Great War behind, Gabriele has created a website of quirky facts - Odd, Intriguing, Surprising Facts About WW1 - which is being used by international researchers and educators. Gabriele was born in Germany and emigrated to Canada as a young child. With degrees in the social sciences and education from the University of Toronto, she has had a varied career as an educator, literacy coordinator, and website designer, and has been an active community volunteer, particularly in heritage preservation. But writing fiction has always been her passion. Her first short s

Title:   The Summer Before the Storm Author:   Gabriele Wills Genre:   Historical Fiction Pages:   551 Published:   2006 Publisher:   MindShadows Source:   via Premier Virtual Authors Book Tours Buy Link:   Amazon Synopsis: Muskoka, 1914. It's the Age of Elegance in the summer playground of the affluent and powerful. Amid the pristine, island-dotted lakes, the granite cliffs, and pine-scented forests of the Canadian wilderness, the young and carefree amuse themselves with glittering balls, lavish picnics, and friendly competitions. But this summer promises to be different when the charming, ambitious, and destitute son of a disowned heir joins his wealthy family at their cottage on Wyndwood Island. Through Jack's introduction into the privileged life of the aristocratic Wyndhams and their social circle - including captains of industry and financial titans - he seeks opportunities and alliances to better himself, including in his schemes, his beautiful, headstrong, and auda