Sunday's Book New Release - Divided Dreams by Janet Lane Walters #MFRWauthor #medicalromance #doctor/writerhero

Divided Dreams (Moon Child Book 4)


Rob Grantlan has given up medicine to become an author. As a Gemini, having two careers seems just right. His quiet days are overturned by the death of his wayward sister and his taking guardianship of his two month old niece. When he learns the father of the infant is his old flame Andi Sherman’s brother a plan unfolds. Years ago, he hurt her. He still loves her and he wants to regenerate that love.

Andi Sherman is now a nurse practitioner in Pediatrics. She has vowed never to return to Fern Lake. The offer of a partnership in a friend’s practice is tempting. She refuses until she learns Rob has given up the practice of medicine. She believes he will leave town. On the day after her July birthday, she returns and comes upon the accident, finds the dying woman and the baby. When she learns the little girl is her niece and Rob hasn’t left town she is conflicted. She still loves him but she can’t trust him. News from her brother brings a threat.

Will Tammy’s presence in their lives find a way to allow them to love and trust again?

Saturday's Blurbs features books by Andrea Cooper #MFRWauthor #Paranormal #Romanticsuspense

Legends of Oblivion Series:

Genre: Fantasy/ Paranormal Romance

The Garnet Dagger

Book 1

 

Everyone knows what happens when a vampire bites a human…but what if the victim is Elvin?

Romance and breathtaking fantasy collide as cursed traveler Brock falls in love with imprisoned witch Celeste. She holds the key to his salvation—but it will come at a price….

 

 

Cursed

Book 1.5

Brock, the Elvin Vampyre, takes Celeste to Tamlon to search the prophecies of the four and the Son of Dragons. He thinks his witch will be safe in his Elvin city…he is wrong.

The Warloc’s protégé is bent on his physical return to the living. Her necromancy brings forth Brock’s first victim and more. 

Brock and Celeste must defeat prejudice and power to continue their journey and find Brock’s twin sister, Mirhana.

 

Son of Dragons

Book 2

In a time of false peace, the dead rise as soldiers for the Warloc’s scheme. For thousands of years he has stood ready for the final battle. Though the witch and her cursed Elvin have destroyed his physical body, now with his protégé, he has honed a new way to wage war.

Shunned by her own people and weary-hearted from centuries of lost loves, Elvin warrior Mirhana scours the land to silence the undead. Her heart has turned as cold as the sword she wields, until a prince seeks her aid.

Never has Prince Landon met a woman like Mirhana. Both beautiful and deadly, she haunts his dreams. The battle at hand becomes more enchanting than fighting to remain true to his unseen betrothed.

When a traitor emerges, new alliances are tested and the only remaining hope is to follow the prophecy and find the ... Son of Dragons.

 

Viking Fire series:

 

Viking Flame

Prequel to Viking Fire

Genre: Historical Romance

 

In Medieval times, Bram has agreed to a marriage of convenience with an Irish nobleman’s daughter. A marriage bargain is struck in exchange for land and his services fighting with the Laird Liannon’s clan against all rivals: Norsemen and Irish alike. However, Bram’s intended does not stir his heart. Not like the Laird’s daughter, Kaireen. Unknowingly, Kaireen has captured his Viking heart.

Somehow, he must not only convince the Laird to amend his marriage contract, but win the heart of the stubborn feisty Kaireen in this Viking historical romance.

 

Viking Fire

Ireland 856 CE is a land of myth, magic, and blood. Viking raiders have fought the Irish for over half a century. Rival Irish clans promise only betrayal and carnage.

Kaireen, daughter of Laird Liannon, is suddenly forced into an arranged marriage with her sworn enemy, a Viking. She refuses to submit. With no mention of love, only land and the protection of her clan, she endeavors to get her betrothed banished from her country. Will love find its way around her stubborn heart?

 

Bram, the Viking, finds himself without future or inheritance as a younger son in his family. A marriage to the Laird’s daughter would grant him land if he swears fidelity and if his men will fight along with the Liannons against any foe—Irish or Viking. However, the Laird’s feisty daughter only holds animosity for him and his kind. Is marriage worth the battle scars of such a relentless opponent?

 

With the blame for a rival laird’s death treacherously set against the Liannons, Kaireen and Bram must find a way to lay aside their differences as an unforeseen darkness sends death snapping at their heels.

 

Hearts series:

Genre: Romantic Suspense

Stolen Hearts

Book 1

 

Crystal has spent her entire life training to be a thief in order to find evidence against the man who had her parents murdered. In her pursuit of justice she's had to give up her identity, her name, and any chance at love. When Crystal is forced on a blind date with the cop who is investigating her, she plays a dangerous game of hearts that could land her in a prison cell. 

Kade is in search of a new life, after losing his partner. He's taken a new job, in a new city, and met a new girl. In order to keep his fresh start, he will have to catch an elusive thief targeting one of the largest corporations in the country. Desperate to forget the failures of his past, Kade has no intention of failing. 

But secrets can’t be hidden forever.

Friday - Andrea Cooper is Talking About Heroes, Heroines and Villains #MFRWauthor #fantasy #paranormal

1. Do you write a single genre or do your fingers flow over the keys creating tales in many forms?

 

I create stories in several genres: fantasy, paranormal romance, romantic suspense, and historical romance

 

Does your reading choices reflect your writing choices?

 

Yes. I prefer to read in the same genres I write in. However, I’m a member of several bookclubs and it stretches my reading list. Like Gone Girl, I never would have read that book—just watched the movie and if it was good, then read the book.

 

Are there genres you wouldn’t attempt?

 

Science Fiction and Mystery. I love watching shows/movies in those genres, but their Muse has never visited me.

 

1. Heroes, Heroines, Villains. Which are your favorite to write?

 

Heroines, with Heroes close behind. I like to write strong women and the men who love them.

 

1. Heroes. How do you find them? Do pictures, real life or plain imagination create the man you want every reader to love? Do they come before the plot or after you have the idea for the story?

 

Pictures help, though I’ll have a rough idea in my mind of the look and attitude of the hero—then search through photos until I find one that comes close. Then I create a character sheet with his photo attached (kind of like a Gamer’s character profile).

 

 

4. Heroines. How do you find them? Do pictures, real life or imagination create the woman you want the reader to root for? Do they appear before the plot or after you have the idea for the story?

 

            Ditto on the Heroines. I know the hair color, attitude, etc. and look for pictures to match or give me a visual trigger of what the heroine looks like. Since I’m a panster, the heroine gets more detailed in my mind as I write the story.

 

5. Villains or villainesses or an antagonist, since they don’t always have to be the bad guy or girl. They can be a person opposed to the hero’s or heroine’s obtaining their goal. How do you choose one? How do you make them human?

 

            I imagine them as being the hero of their own story. In their mind, they aren’t the villain/villainess/antagonist. If the hero didn’t stand in their way, they would triumph.

 

6. What is your latest release? Who is the hero, heroine and or the villain?

 

Crystal is the heroine, but she’s also a slight antagonist against the hero. She’s trained as a thief in order to prove her father’s innocence against the corporation who framed him. However, the hero is the undercover against on the case to catch the thief.

 

7. What are you working on now?

 

I’m currently working on a paranormal series about Succubae and Incubi. Claimed Book 1 is forthcoming in February 2016. I’m wrapping writing Fallen Book 2 in this series and plan to start Bewitched Book 3 later this year.

 

8. How can people find you?

 

 

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Thursday's Villains - The four from Havens #MFRWauthor #YAFantasy

 Havens (Affinities Book 2 - Young Adult fantasy, Books We Love)   

The door opened.  Dom Manton ushered the four older boys into the room.  The four young men swaggered.  Their lips curled into sneers.

The one with Fire sent flaming balls around the room.  Several passed so close Bran flinched.  The boy with Earth formed pieces of metal into links and formed a chain he said could be used to choke someone.  The young man with Water brewed a potion Bran knew was a poison.

The fourth boy spoke.  “I am Air and thus leader.  I read the winds and tell my circle where to strike.”  A sly glint appeared.  “Doma Jandia is angry with you.  She wants you to select Dom Manton as your teacher so she can be rid of you.”

Bran tightened his barriers.  Zand broadcast his fear of betrayal.  Bran wished he could tell his friend the older boy lied about the doma.  Had Doma Jandia sent a false message on the wind?  To help Zand regain his calm, the one who had Air had to be shown to be foolish.  “If you can read the winds so well, can you tell me where the boy who ran away can be found?”

“Why should I?  He was a weakling who listened to a girl.  Can you believe she insisted she had a Earth affinity?  Girls can’t have an affinity.  They don’t have the stomach to fight.  If she were still here, she would have been taken away by the Master on his next visit.  He would have sold her as a slave.”

Dom Manton snapped his fingers.  “Enough.”  He waved the older quartet from the room.  When the door closed behind them he smiled.  “Don’t listen to their tales about the girl.  She would have been sent to where a circle of girls train.”

“Why would they say that?”  Bran asked.

“To prove they’re the best.”  Dom Manton smiled.  “They are but I believe with the right training you could surpass them.”

“Really?”  Bran said.

Dom Manton stepped forward.  “Are you ready to choose me as your first teacher?  As you heard, Jandia will be pleased.”

Bran caught overtones in the man’s voice that made him realize what had been said was a lie.  He shook his head.

“No.”  Jay and Zand spoke in unison.

The dom’s smile faded.  “By tomorrow you will agree.”  He stalked from the room.

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Wednesday's Writer's Tip - More ways to use Description #MFRWauthor #amwriting

Description is necessary to make the story pop.

 Look at each scene and try to find a way to incorporate description. I once used the aroma of baking chocolate cookies to bring the heroine's memories to a happier time and to lead her to a new time in her life. During the scene, the character or characters can come to a realization about her life and how things have changed and need to change. Scents are particularly evocation of memories.

Having one of the characters have to use a sense during a scene can make the scene come alive. Imagine the character trapped in a dark cave or a dungeon with no lights. Try the sense of touch to bring the scene to vivid like. What is the slimy thing she or he feels on the wall. What does the feel of water mean? Can she or he find the exit jsut by touch?

One thing to remember when using descriptive passages, less is more. Finding just the right word to evoke an image of what the reader should experience is great. One word can create a picture that's clear where long strings of words may muddy the scene or lose the reader on the way to the meaning of the passage. Precision counts when choosing the right word. Think of someone's face when they're angry. Beet red, may do the trick. Face flamed. Things like this make the picture clear.

Tuesday's Inspiration - Taking a Giant Step #MFRWauthor #amwriting

When we write, we're taking giant steps or at least we should be. There's the idea and it's a giant step toward the book at the end of the road. Ideas come into play in other parts of what we're writing. Let's look at a few.

The character - Now you could say he's tall with red hair, green eyes and a buff body. Now that's an idea but it takes another step to make this character come alive. He towered over her. She backed away from the flare of anger in his green eyes. Now this gives a better picture of the character. Now you could get carried away and continue to build a word picture of this man. But after awhile the reader will be bored. Another giant step to take is to make his picture as vivid as you can without spewing for pages.

The same goes for setting. You've set a scene at a picnic. There's a lot that happens at a picnic. You could write pages and still never give the picture. What you need to do is find the bits and pieces that weave the scene without spending pages. Here's where one word or two can show more than a million pictures.

So let's hear it for taking those giant steps ang going from the idea to the finished book/

Meandering On Monday with Janet Lane Walters #MFRWauthor #amediting

Meander 1 - I do not drink green juice. This seems to be the new fad but to me it looks sickening. I've been known to drink green tea. The beverage is refreshing and perhaps good for your health. I've eaten green ice cream. Lime sherbet is great. Green key lime pie is one of my favorites. I've even eaten green potatoes on St. Patrick's day. Green vegetables are among my favorites. Broccoli, and asparagus are eaten with relish, just not pureed into some kind of juice. I've even enjoyed fried green tomatoes. I might be tempted to eat green eggs and ham. I read that story often enough to children and grandchildren to be tempted. But drinking green juice isn't my glass of anything I would enjoy.


Meander 2 - The tale of two books. I'm a reader and enjoy almost everything but horror. I've been reading two books by one author. The first book had me closing shop on it after reading the first five chapters. The reason there seemed to be nothing happening and I was bored. I opened the second book figuring I would read not much more. What I found was a different story, one that kept me turning the pages wanting to read until the book was finished. What made the difference. The first was a character I could identify with and the second an intriguing plot. The characters from the first book didn't interest me. And after five chapters I had no idea what the plot was going to be. That was an interesting idea and made me thing it probably applies to my own writing. Some of my books pull the reader along while others leave them sleeping. Something needs to improve.

Meander 3 - Have the edits back for Divided Dreams but I'm holding off for a day or two since my publisher says there's no hurry. So I'm pushing to get ahead with the typing of Wizards rough draft so I won't get too far ahead on the second draft. Love the way the story is going. Lots of action and adventure, at least I hope so. Am thinking about the fourth Opposites In Love and may have a good idea of the opening scene. Love giving heroines problems right on the opening and this one is going to be a real one. Back to doctors and nurses for this one and friends thrown in, too.

Sunday's Book is Searches - Book 3 of Affinities #MFRWauthor #fantasy #YA

Having found a safe place in a tower fortress, the four and their companions set out to find what they need to defeat Dom Senet and He Who Walks With Evil. They divide into three groups. The first group seeks the focus stones that enhance their affinities. The second group looks for the remaining artifacts, the swords, the staffs, the flutes and the scrying bowls. The third group sets out to find those with their affinities to round the groups to four of earth, four water, four air and four fire. Their strength will be needed in the final battle.

Searches is the third book of the series. Here for the first time the young people learn about He Who Walks With Evil and how he came to their land. There is also some appearance of the villains from the first two books.

Searches (Affinities Book 3 - Young Adult Fantasy, Books We Love

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Saturday's Blurbs featuring books by Guy Ogan #MFRWauthor #vampires

Immortal Relations Blurb:

When Gary Logan discovers an old black-and-white photograph of his father in Prague with a woman’s handwriting on the back, he flies there to investigate where his father worked while in Europe, only to meet and fall in love with a beautiful lady who he believes to be a vampire. In love with her, Gary is initiated into her coven of guardian vampires, beginning a journey of epic proportions.

Exciting, erotic, and full of heart-stopping action, this debut novel turns human vampire lore on its head, with a symbiotic relationship between the species that deepens emotional connections to astonishing effect. But a coven of evil vampires bent on destroying the guardian vampires and feeding on the humans at will have other plans. Gary’s full vampire son helps humans to almost wipe out the evil coven, beginning the ever-increasing relationship between vampires and humans. Probing the gray areas inherent in sexuality, family and legend, the tale examines the very nature of existence.

Immortal Relations, Love and War Blurb:

Immortal Relations, Love and War amps up the action to a fever pitch. While Maggie and Evy hope things have settled down, events have a way of foiling the best of intentions. Death stalks a close friend, but our vampires can help him cheat death if he will accept the offer. His expertise is vital as dangerous international events are about to occur that only this old friend can solve! Greed is at the bottom of so many of histories problems, and this book shows just how greedy some governments, rogue OPEC Ministers and terrorists can be and the troubles they can cause. Who is available to thwart their greed and what about the ecological disasters of the impending failure of the containment cap at Chernobyl and possible reactor collapse at Fukushima, Japan. When the reactor building at Fukushima falls, a possible ''Extinction Level Event" has been predicted! Our heroes will help, if their help will be accepted!

Immortal Relations Coming Out Blurb:

The third in the series continues to rock the foundation upon which typical vampire novels are based. Such stories, where vampires safeguard humans are rare indeed. These vampires do their utmost to save humans and animals from not only evil vampires but evil humans.

Ogan’s insights into the powers of the immortal vampires, along with fresh takes on the complex inner workings of their existence provide an intriguing experience for readers. In this story a novice shape-shifter wolf meets a beautiful hybrid vampire.  Good vampires set up a new coven in Southern Canada to monitor a regime intent on changing American into a dictatorship. Marxist thugs, not realizing who they are dealing with, still believe the group was partly responsible for the defeat of Communists intent on stealing oil, gold and mineral reserves from Siberia, so Washington retaliates with violence. A great deal of effort is required by the vampires to keep Canadian citizens safe. There is a vampire wedding with a handsome human; then dangers from outer-space suddenly appear to threaten the entire earth – can such threats be stopped?

An “Immortal Relations” reader said: “Being a bit of a vampire-phile, I find myself consistently searching for the next vampire series to reach out and grab, or, more appropriately, bite me. I believe I have found my holy grail of vampire novels…”

Friday - Guy Ogan Talking About Heroes, Heroines and Villains #MFRWauthor #vampires

1. Do you write a single genre or do your fingers flow over the keys creating tales in many forms? Does your reading choices reflect your writing choices? Are there genres you wouldn’t attempt? 

Answer: All three of my currently available series are of what I call the Paranormal-Action genre'. I will turn the second part of the question around in that my favorite genre' for reading is also in the paranormal (specifically about vampires who have redeeming social value vs. the wanton killer types - paranormal doesn't mean the same as horror...I don't like horror!) 

 

2. Heroes, Heroines, Villains. Which are your favorite to write? Does one of these come easy and why?

Answer: He roes and Heroines are the main characters in my books...it is their job to defeat the evil in this world (of which there is far too much). My military background makes writing about heroes and heroines more worthwhile than writing about the evil characters. Having worked as an Associate Clinical Psychologist in the prison system I prefer describing good rather than evil.

 

3. Heroes. How do you find them? Do pictures, real life or plain imagination create the man you want every reader to love? Do they come before the plot or after you have the idea for the story? 

Answer: My characters as well as their stories come to me in various ways, in my dreams, day-dreams, or while I am writing. Regardless of how my characters come to me I feel that I serve a a scribe to record their stories. And yes, I get a visual image of who they are, what they look like as well a the actions they are describing to me. My initial male hero, if that is what you wish to call him, Gary has my own military training and knowledge so he is my alter-ego and performs they way I would hope I would if circumstances worked out as in the stories.

 

4. Heroines. How do you find them? Do pictures, real life or imagination create the woman you want the reader to root for? Do they appear before the plot or after you have the idea for the story?

Answer: As previously stated for heroes my characters come to me in vivid dreams, daydreams and as they recount their stories, call it imagination if you wish. Magdalena and Eviana came to me as part of Gary's story and what happened to Gary's family is actually what happened in the case of my own father (see page one and two  of the first book, "Immortal Relations" the picture is on page two, http://amzn.com/B006ZCBT6G and can be seen by all in those first pages when visiting the book's amazon address.  

 

5. Villains or villainesses or an antagonist, since they don’t always have to be the bad guy or girl. They can be a person opposed to the hero’s or heroine’s obtaining their goal. How do you 

choose one? How do you make them human? 

Answer: All of my heroes and heroines as well as the villains either are or were at one time, human. Some of the most interesting parts of their stories (in my opinion) is when we find out what caused them to become vampires. Those who become evil vampires had a predisposition toward aggression, if not outright evil. Their lack of morality when it comes to caring for others seems to be their hallmark. Others, specifically Vlad Dracula, had no one to train him on proper vampire behavior. Locked away in prison, he had no way of dealing with the "thirst" other than the way he did. It took the guidance of his second wife to turn him away from evil (as discussed in the third book). The greatest evil in the books is not found in vampires but in human governments that have no regard for those whose freedom they seek to trample on!

 

6. What is your latest release? Who is the hero, heroine and or the villain?

Answer: My third book in the series, "Immortal Relations Coming Out" http://amzn.com/B00G5BQS18 is my latest release. In my latest release, the heroes are not only my good vampires but the good citizens of a small town in Southern Canada who lovingly accept and support them. Conversely, the villains are found in totalitarian world governments. Some of them are members of the current regime in Washington D.C. who prove to neither respect their Constitution or the lives of others (some who wear rose-colored-glasses won't appreciate this story). 

7. What are you working on now? 

Answer: A switch from the paranormal, but still in the fiction category. I'm writing a story about an eight-year-old, her grandfather and a friend who travel back through time to see the dinosaurs. It's not a "See Spot run, see Dick chase Spot, see Jane chase after both" type children's story. There is scientific theory, action (running from dinosaurs) and shooting, it's for more mature children.    

 

8. How can people find you?

            Website: http://immortalrelations.blogspot.com/

           

            Blog: same as above website

            Twitter: Guy Ogan on Twitter

            Facebook: Guy Ogan on Facebook