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From One Gemini to Another

Wednesday, March 30, 2022

Wednesday The Gemini Sagittarius Connection #MFRWHooks #BWLAuthor #Romance #Medical #Second Chance

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Gemini Liz seems to be following her sign. She's the mother of twin boys, she'd returned to Eastlake for the second time and she's taking her second position as a nurse manager. She feels moving from the city will be good for her sons who sometimes choose the wrong friends. What Liz doesn't want is a second husband. The death of her fireman husband made him a hero but devastated her life. She had to return to work and become a single mother. Fortunately her father-in-law has stepped in to care for the boys but he wants to retire to Florida. Though she's attracted to Jeff she wants to deny the attraction.

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Kindle Customer

Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2018

A small town hospital, a widow and a widower, add a pair of 9-year old twins, mix well and you have the basis for a fast-paced story. In The Gemini-Sagittarius Connection, Walters demonstrates her knowledge of hospitals to make the story real, but does so skillfully without slowing down the read. From the first page to the last, Walters pulls you into the lives of her characters and has you rooting for a happily-ever after ending.

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A Gemini Myself

Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2016

i found the book well written and the characters well developed. Finding love again are wonderfully romantic stories.I really enjoyed the Gemini- Sagittarius aspects of the story, too.

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Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Tuesday's Writer's Tip -more on Off Center Endings #BWLAuthor #MFRWAuthor #Writing #Revisions #Endings

Off Center Endings can mean the death of the story. Using the god in the machine to end a story while the story ends, the reader might not believe this could happen. Doing this can ruin the story for the reader. This may end the story with a bang but the reader will scratch their head. Suppose there's a story where rain comes to isolate the characters. To end with the dam bursting an all die, certainly ends the story but doesn't give the reader that feeling of satisfaction a good ending does.

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Monday, March 28, 2022

Meandering on Monday with Janet Lane Walters #BFWAuthor #MFRWAuthor #Reading #Writing #Thoughts

Meander 1 - Reading - Still reading Ellis Peters' Brother Cadfael series and enjoying the twists and turns of these mysteries as well as learning about medieval times and monestaries.

Meander 2 - Thoughts _Just managed a bit of promotion since I called to see if I managed to fill in a form correctly. Was a bit confusing but I really managed. Then talked th the person who called back to verify that I had done all I needed to do. Pitched my books to her after I learned she was a reader. We'll see if anything comesof that.

Meander 3 - Writing - Am in the process of typing in all the chapters of Committee. Have one more to either re-write or to make lots of changes. Will be happy to finish this book that became not a medical suspense but a romantic suspense in the middle. Took some re-writing on the first chapters but I think it's nowon target.

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Sunday, March 27, 2022

Sunday's Book Havens #BWLAuthor #MFRWAuthor #Fantasy #Swords #Magic

The four teens, led by the mysterious birds they believe are their parents seek a place of safety where they can learn to control their affinities.

They find a place of refuge with Doma Jandia, grandmother of their friend Zand. The doma plans to take them to the highlands but news of the capture of two of their friends by Dom Senet, sends them on a rescue mission. Their powers are not strong enough to defeat the evil dom. They must find a way to succeed or their friends will be corrupted forever.

Kat Taylor

Take me away...

Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2014

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Do not miss this exciting and dynamic series. An escape for young adults as well as adults with a passion for fantasy. Janet Lane Walters creates world like no other writer I know.

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Saturday, March 26, 2022

Saturday's Blurbs feature Books by Alana Lorens #MFRWAuthor #Pittsburgh #Suspense #Second chances

Romantic suspense novel CONVICTION OF THE HEART features attorney Suzanne Taylor, who raised her children as a single mother while building a successful legal practice. She’s managed to keep herself untangled from romance for many years, putting her kids and their financial security first.

But the case of a city councilman’s battered wife brings her complications in the form of police lieutenant Nick Sansone, whose interest in her comes right when she needs a little help from outside sources. The councilman strikes out at Suzanne, Nick, and eventually, anyone he can think of who might make Suzanne back off. Will they be able to stave off the danger long enough for their love to blossom?

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SECOND CHANCES begins the day attorney Inessa Regan receives a pink slip after ten years of faithful service. She’s been a mid-level associate her whole career, partners telling her what to do, providing her with an office and everything she needs. Thrown out into the legal world on her own, she doesn’t know how she’ll survive. Her neighbor brings her first client, Kurt Lowdon, a young Iraq veteran with cancer, who’s looking just to have a will made. Inessa struggles to give Kurt what he needs, and he helps make it easy for her.

Once his immediate needs are met, he takes her under his wing and brings her more clients as well as a place to open an office to see them. Things begin to fall together for her, including a very special friendship with Kurt that becomes something more. But his past military service, and the friends he’s made there, begin to cause problems for them both, as well as issues his drug-addicted sister delivers to his doorstep. He still hasn’t kicked his cancer, either, and Inessa wonders if falling in love with him is a blessing or a curse.

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Book three of the series is from The Wild Rose Press, about a Pittsburgh Lady Lawyer who is trapped in a voodoo mess in New Orleans at Mardi Gras!

When her big trial goes bad, corporate attorney Brianna Ward can’t wait to get out of Pittsburgh. The Big Easy seems like the perfect place to rest, relax, and forget about the legal business. Too bad an obnoxious—but handsome—lawyer from a rival firm is checking into the same bed and breakfast.

Attorney Evan Farrell has Mardi Gras vacation plans too. When he encounters fiery and attractive Brianna, however, he puts the Bourbon Street party on hold. He’d much rather devote himself to her—especially when a mysterious riddle appears in her bag, seeming to threaten danger.

Strangely compelled to follow the riddle’s clues, Brianna is pulled deeper into the twisted schemes of a voodoo priest bent on revenge. To escape his poisonous web, she must work with Evan to solve the curse. But is the growing love they feel for each other real? Or just a voodoo dream?

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Friday, March 25, 2022

Friday - Alana Lorens is Visiting and Talking About being a Panster or Plotter #MFRWAuthor #Panster #Plotter #Suspense #Thriller

Pantser or Plotter

Day 1

1. Are you a pantser or a plotter or perhaps a bit of both?

Both, actually. I begin as a pantser—starting with whatever “what if” has caught my attention. For this book, SECOND CHANCES, it was “what if an associate in a law office gets kicked out at 42 with no prospects?” I knew she’d meet her future office mate—and more—but not the details, after that. About halfway through, when I see the character arc coming together, then I put together a chapter by chapter map of what has to happen as we’re moving forward.

2. Which comes first - characters or plot for you?

Definitely characters. In my opinion, people and their wants and choices and emotions drive any story forward, real or fictional, for better or worse.

3. What are you working on now? Is this a book in a current series or something totally new?

I’m editing a manuscript that’s totally different for me. It’s a straight thriller, not a romance, and it jumps around in time (the way THIS IS US has been) building in the backstory in alternating chapters. Of course, in beginning the story with Bet, our protagonist, stumbling out of a burnt out car in the Everglades, with no recollection of how she got there, there’s a lot of mystery about to be revealed!

4. Do you have some kind of object or place that figures in most of your books? I use gems a lot, hospitals and caves.

I don’t, actually. 😊

5. Do you write everyday or just when the spirit hits?\

I do SOMETHING every day. Many days, it’s working on the current new work in progress. Otherwise, it’s editing manuscripts that have yet to be submitted, or doing press for the book about to be released, or writing blog posts for myself or someone else, or hanging with my critique groups, or updating social media or… seems like the writer’s life is never a dull moment!

6. Where can we find you?

Author Bio

Alana Lorens has been a published writer for more than forty years, after working as a pizza maker, a floral designer, a journalist and a family law attorney. Currently a resident of Asheville, North Carolina, the aging hippie loves her time in the smoky blue mountains. She writes romance and suspense as Alana Lorens, and sci-fi, fantasy and paranormal mystery as Lyndi Alexander. She is the author of the Pittsburgh Lady Lawyers series, which draws on her years as a family law attorney in the state of Pennsylvania. One of the causes close to her heart came from those years as well–the fight against domestic violence. She volunteered for many years at women’s shelters and provided free legal services to women and children in need. She lives with her daughter, who is the youngest of her seven children, three crotchety old cats and six others who are in various degrees of insanity.

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Amazon Author Page https://www.amazon.com/Alana-Lorens/e/B005GE0WBC/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1

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Twitter: @AlexanderLyndi

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7. Who are your favorite authors? What about a book you’ve enjoyed?

I grew up on the gothic romance circuit, so Victoria Holt, Dorothy Eden, Barbara Michaels, Mary Stewart, et al. But the other half of me is sci-fi oriented, so I also love Anne McCaffery’s books as well as Stephen King. The Stand is probably one of my all time faves—love the characters in that one.

Thursday, March 24, 2022

Thursday Meet the Characters from Escape Affinities Book1 #BWLAuthor #MFRWAuthor #fantasy #Fire #Air #Water #Earth

Ashlea has the air affinity

Brandien her twin has the water affinity

Jaydren has the earth affinity

Kylandra, Jaydren's twin has the fire talent.

Dom Senet is a villain. He has all four affinities and is counsellor to a Prince

Alizand - has the fire affinity. He is the heir in question because of his affinity

Dragen - Alizand's great-uncle and bodyguard.

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Wednesday, March 23, 2022

The Taurus Scorpio Connection #MFRWHooks BELAuthor #Romance #Medical #Astrology

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BLURB: Her mother was a hired nanny and her father the Mellwood Bank. This is the way Taurus Laurel Richmond describes her family. After burning out as a nurse with an international health agency, she returns to Eastlake, the one place she where she felt connected. She studied nursing here and made a number of friends. Her one problem is her wealth. Soon she will receive a fortune. But money hasn’t given her the things she wants, a home, a family and love. Since a chance visit after summer camp with a friend made there, her idea of a man to love has been Alex Carter.

Alex Carter is a Scorpio, a single dad with a five year old son. He’s a general practitioner at Eastlake Community Hospital. While attracted to Laurel, he has one problem. His ex and now dead wife had a lot of money and little sense. Drugs and her fast friends were her life. She abandoned their son who cried for hours until his father returned. Alex has no love for women with money. Attraction or not he refuses to admit he’s falling for Laurel. With the help of Alex’s son,

Laurel sets out to prove to Alex she’s in town for the long haul and she will make the perfect wife and mother. Review: Janet Lane Walters has written a charming tale. As a child, Laurel Richmond was trapped in a car with her dead parents for hours. After losing them, Laurel's next of kin was a bank. Laurel hides her immense wealth, traveling internationally as a nurse, helping the sick. She decides to settle in Eastlake, a small community. She once summered with her friend Megan, developing a huge crush on Megan's brother, Alex, who is now a divorced doctor raising his young son Johnny. Alex is leary of wealth because his rich ex-wife had no time for him or Johnny, but Johnny takes to Laurel right away. The glimpses of a family life that Laurel experiences with Johnny and Alex leave her longing for her dreams to become reality. Can she get Alex to realize that money may bring power, but love offers peace?

Rosemary Morris

A Wealthy Orphans Need for a Home and Family

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 28, 2018

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Ms Lane-Walters is conversant with hospitals and hospital procedures. In this interesting medical romance, she returns to Eastlake Community Hospital in which the first of the series was set. Exhausted, Laurel,whose star sign is Taurus, is an heiress orphaned in tragic circumstances when she was three-years-old. She leaves India, where she has been working for International Health Rescue Mission as part of a team following disasters, dispensing care and training health workers. She has fled from Neil Browne who asked her to marry him, but she did not want all he has to offer her, a roving life. When she arrives in America with the hope of finding a permanent home, Alex Carter, her friend Megan’s brother collects her from the airport. Within next to no time she collapses and is admitted to hospital suffering from pneumonia. Alex, a doctor, father of five-year-old Johnny, is still angry after his divorce and his former wife’s death. There is no room in his life for another spoiled, selfish rich woman so it’s useless for Megan to match make. This is an intriguing novel about two characters with problems which need to be resolved, and Alex’s delightful, but insecure young son, who adores his father and is traumatised by the loss of his mother. The Taurus Scorpio Connection is a story to relax with and enjoy it.

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The plane touched down and rolled to a halt. The mass of passengers pushed to the exit like angry ants from a shattered hill. Lauren remained seated. The aisled cleared. A flight attendant paused beside Lauren’s seat. “Are you okay? Would you like assistance, maybe a wheelchair?”

“No chair, but thanks.” Lauren rose and walked to the exit. Using the railing on the right side of the covered tunnel she soon reached the end. The long hours of travel, the fever and the cough plaguing her since the flight from India had drained most of her reserve strength

At the end of the ramp she scanned the milling crowd and looked toward the barrier where people waited. Where was Megan? Without warning a memory of being sixteen and in love rocked Lauren

A tall, blonde, athletic man studied the people emerging from the flight. His glance slid past her. She walked toward him. “Alex Carter, what are you doing here?”

“Lauren Richmond, I’m here to take you to Eastlake.” He clasped her hand.

“I thought Megan was meeting me.”

“She had to work.” His gaze swept over her. “Rough trip? You look exhausted.”

“I’ve been living a hectic life. How did Megan trick you into meeting me? I could have rented a car.”

A lock of sun-brightened hair fell across his forehead. “That’s a long story. I didn’t know you were coming until six a.m. when my scatterbrain sister called. ‘Alex, I have to work and Lauren’s arriving at ten and could you meet her and I know you’re off so say yes.’”

Lauren laughed. “All without a breath and you agreed.”

He took her arm. His touch, the overheated building, the noisy crowd combined to make her feel faint. She inhaled. A trickle of perfume triggered a cough. She fought to catch her breath. “Let’s get my bag.”

“Are you home for good?”

How could she tell him she didn’t have a home, just two residences the bank had retained? Would he understand why she had returned to Eastlake? “I don’t know.”

“Why don’t you consider staying in Eastlake? The hospital needs nurses. Have you kept your license?”

“Yes.” She noted the overhead signs pointing to the baggage area and turned to the right. “Lately I haven’t been thinking beyond each day.”

His fingers lightly stroked her jacket sleeve. She wondered if he was aware of the action. The rush of heat she felt in response to his gentleness dissolved the wall holding her pain. In silence she walked beside her.

Once they reached the revolving baggage carrousel for her flight she pointed to the khaki duffel circling with the suitcases. “The duffel’s mine.”

Alex snagged the strap. “Just one.”

She nodded. “I’ve learned to travel light. Not much room in a tent or a hut.”

“What were you doing in a tent?”

“Working for International Health Rescue Missions. Didn’t Megan tell you?”

“Probably. It’s hard finding facts in her chatter.”

They entered the bullet train and exited minutes later at the door leading to the parking lot. The air redolent with exhaust fumes made her choke and cough. Alex opened the car door and slid the duffel in the back.

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Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Tuesday's Writer's Tip Off Center Edings #BWLAuthor #MFRWAuthor #wriring #Endings

When the ending in ineffective, the reader will cast the book aside and thing hoohum. They may or may not read that writer again. How do you know if your ending is off center.

Since the last scene brings the reader to a satisfactory ending this is an important as the beginning. The writer may have changed the focus. The characters that should be there for the ending are present. But the writer has picked the final confrontation between the wrong two characters. The writer forgot which of the characters had the most to gain or lose in that final scene. One of the characters who has the most to win or lose is off being an observer. Not a good idea.

So what to do. Give that person a way to help win or lost the confrontation. That means changing the focus of the scene.

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Monday, March 21, 2022

Meandering on Monday with Janet Lane Walters #BWLAuthor #MFRWAuthor #Reading #Writing #Thoughts

Meander 1 - Reading - Have been spending many days with Brother Cadfael mysteries by Ellis Peters. I read these many years ago during the days when I had four small children to raise and writing was only a dream. I'm learning a lotof interesting things about monasteries and herbs. Hopefully I'll finish the series before long.

Meander 2 _ Thoughts - Had to have my car battery charged again. The young man from AAA was thourough looking at all the things in the strange engine of my 2001 Prius. The car is a gem and keeps running, I hope forever. Then had to spend a half hour letting the car run in the driveway and another half hour riding around. Kept me from writing but that's for another Meander.

Meander 3 -Writing - Working diligently on Committee in the final revision and the typing. I believe there will be some rewriting of scenes when I reach the later chapters. Am making sure the first ones fit the change from amedical suspense to a romantic suspense. I don't think I could write a staight suspense. I thought to try but the plot shouted no so now I plunge forward.

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