The Geekish Reader

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Shirley Jump spends her days writing romance and women’s fiction to feed her shoe addiction and avoid cleaning the toilets. She cleverly finds writing time by feeding her kids junk food, allowing them to dress in the clothes they find on the floor and encouraging the dogs to double as vacuum cleaners. Look for her new and improved re-released Sweet and Savory Romance series, including the USA Today bestselling book, THE BRIDE WORE CHOCOLATE, on Amazon, and her Sweetheart Sisters series for Berkley, starting with THE SWEETHEART BARGAIN and continuing in April 2014 with THE SWEETHEART RULES. Visit her website at www.shirleyjump.com or read recipes and life adventures at www.eating-my-words.com . Twitter | Facebook | Pinterest | Goodreads | Eating My Words Website | Shirley Jump Welcome Shirley to Stitch Read Cook! 1 - What inspired you to write this story? I love food, family and romance—and often food is at the top of tha...

My income tax return says that I am a teacher. I had originally intended it to say “lawyer,” but romance, marriage, and motherhood set my life on a different course. I’ve been married to Jeff James since 1983. Even after all these years, he is still the love of my life. Jeff and I have two grown children who make us proud every day. My husband and I share another strong and wonderful interest that is not only a great part of our day-to-day lives but has also become a running theme throughout some of my books. We own a small racing stable of Standard-bred Harness horses, pacers to be exact. We have always loved the sport and as our children grew up enough to have their own interests, Jeff looked into what it would be like to own a racehorse. We jumped into the sport with both feet and are loving every minute of it. I’ve added a link to Jeff’s website if you’d like to follow the progress of our horses. As another bit of personal information, I’d like to share that several years ago I...

Adrianne Lee lives with her husband of many, many years on the beautiful Olympic Peninsula in Washington State in a pole barn building her husband transformed into an upstairs apartment with a shop below for his hot rods. Adrianne creates her stories on her laptop, in her recliner with her adopted cat, Spooky, curled between her calves, snoozing.  Over thirty years of summer vacationing in the Flat Head Lake area near Kalispell and Glacier Park has given her a love for all things Montana. Social Media Links: Website ~ Facebook ~ Twitter ~ Goodreads   Welcome Adrienne and Anna! Let’s start with Adrienne…. What sets your book apart from all the others?  What makes it unique? The setting. Kalispell is scenic eye-candy with air so fresh it will make you high, and good-looking hunky cowboys at every turn. And Molly McCoy’s Big Sky Pie shop is a place I wish existed. I want to go there, walk in the door, and immediately smell the DELICIOUS aromas. I want to sit i...

Rebecca Zanetti wrote her first story when she was six – a romance between a princess and neighboring prince.  The princess fell out of her castle and the prince rescued her. A happily ever after was had by all. This theme of romance has been carried through Rebecca’s works until present time.  While today’s heroine may have a medical degree, black belt in Karate and her own 401K, she’s still after that happy ending.  And today’s prince may have fangs and wear a black hat, but hey, a modern princess likes a guy who bites. Rebecca attended Pepperdine University, earning a bachelor’s degree in Journalism with a Political Science emphasis.  While there she worked as the Editor-in-Chief of The Graphic newspaper, a member of the Pi Phi Sorority and an intern for President Reagan, who still gave 3-5 speeches a week, even though he was no longer president. After college, Rebecca worked as an art curator and a Senate aide before heading to law school, where she recei...

From October 17th until October 31st author Jessie Lane and Brandy of Romancebookworms have got 50+ Paranormal Indie Authors that will blow your socks off! Some of them will ensnare you with their love stories involving vampires, and some of them might scare the bejesus out of you. Either way, we have something for everybody. Whether you like werewolves, vampires, demons, shifters or the fae, this tour will bring you authors you’ve read a million times already and love, as well as new authors to pick up! Make sure you check the All Hallows Eve Indies Authors Facebook Page often to see what fabulous author is being featured at which awesome blog! Today I’m one of those lucky bloggers! My name is T.L.Manning, I was born in a small town (you have never heard of) in Midcoast Maine in 1977. I began to write and read at a very young age as a way to crawl into another world that called to me. I also use painting and singing to tell these tales that live inside of me. With so many stor...

Macy Beckett writes hot and humorous romances, including the Sultry Springs Series—where first loves find second chances: Sultry with a Twist, A Shot of Sultry and Surrender to Sultry. Additionally, Macy writes young adult science fiction under the name Melissa Landers. Look for Alienated in February 2014! You can learn more about her books—for adults and teens—on her website. http://macybeckett.com/ , on Facebook, http://www.facebook.com/AuthorMacyBeckett , and on Twitter, @MacyBeckett . To Purchase Surrender to Sultry : Amazon   Barnes and Noble   Books-a-Million   Indigo/Chapters   IndieBound   Discover a New Love   Sourcebooks Feeling the Heat… How do you stay under the sheriff's radar in a town that prides itself on knowing everyone's business? Leah's not sure it's possible, but she's determined to avoid Colton Bea for as long as she can. Seeing him again would be too heartbreaking—and she knows from experience his bone-melting kisses are way...

A native of New York City, Lauren Willig has been writing romances ever since she got her hands on her first romance novel at the age of six. Three years later, she sent her first novel off to a publishing house—all three hundred hand-written pages. They sent it back. Undaunted, Lauren has continued to generate large piles of paper and walk in front of taxis while thinking about plot ideas. After thirteen years at an all girls school (explains the romance novels, doesn’t it?), Lauren set off for Yale and co-education, where she read lots of Shakespeare, wrote sonnet sequences when she was supposed to be doing her science requirement, and lived in a Gothic fortress complete with leaded windows and gargoyles. After college, she decided she really hadn’t had enough school yet, and headed off to that crimson place in Cambridge, Massachusetts for a degree in English history. Like her modern heroine, she spent a year doing dissertation research in London, tramping back and forth between t...

Jess Michaels began writing full-time in 1999 after being encouraged by her husband to follow her dream. In 2003, she sold her first novella to Red Sage Press, an erotic historical romance about an Egyptian tomb and a very sexy curse. Since then she has published (or has contracted to publish by the end of 2013) 37 novels and novellas under three different pen names with several major publishers, small presses and via self-publishing. Her erotic historical romances have been national bestsellers and won awards from booksellers and readers. In 2011, she and her husband moved to Tucson, AZ. There she enjoys hiking in the beautiful desert, spending time with her nephews, designing jewellery (which you can buy here ), reading and spending time with her awesome husband and cats. To find out more about Jess Michaels writing historical romance as Jenna Petersen go here . To find out more about Jess Michaels writing snarky urban fantasy as Jesse Petersen go here . Welcome Jess to Stitch...

Elizabeth Hoyt is the New York Times , USA Today , and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of historical romance, including reader favorite, The Raven Prince . Elizabeth was born in New Orleans but grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota. She was fortunate to be able to travel extensively as a child, visiting St. Andrews, Scotland; Germany; France; and Belgium. She spent a year in Oxford, England and was a summer exchange student to Kawasaki, Japan. Elizabeth has a BA in anthropology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and, as a result of having no clue what to do with her life thereafter, a career history as a barista, a (terrible) sales clerk, a Wisconsin Revenue Service data entry slave, and an archeological field work grunt. Fortunately, Elizabeth married relatively young and produced two children who kept her busy until her mid-thirties. At about this time, when her youngest was entering Kindergarten, Elizabeth’s mother hinted that perhaps Elizabeth should get a Real Job...