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15/2/2015

Outback in Stilettoes

Today I'd like to share with you the lovely author Ann B Harrison's new book: Outback in Stilettoes.

Blurb: The most popular soap on television hangs in the balance because Delilah Connors has lost her mojo. Her agent decides she needs a break.

Delilah disagrees but when her agent says jump, she jumps! She heads for the outback on a bus tour from hell. The coach smells, her seating partner is an octopus and the road leads nowhere she wants to go. It’s all too much.
She grabs her bags and hits the track. The trouble is the track leads to two small children and a widowed farmer. The kids are cute but not cute enough to compensate for an archaic kitchen and the filthy flies. Just when she’s getting the hang of the outback, the flies and that sexy farmer she’s summoned back to the big smoke.

Blake makes a last ditch attempt to plead his case but amongst the glitter and glamour of the Sydney film elite, he is way out of his depth.

Buy Link:
http://www.amazon.com/Outback-Stilettos-Ann-B-Harrison-ebook/dp/B00T4O39QK

To find out more about Ann B Harrison, you can visit her here:
website: http://annbharrisonromance.com

FB: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ann-B-Harrison-Author/311207972338638

Eve xx

"Made in Nashville" milestone

6/2/2015

Today it's a whole year since Mandy Baggot's contemporary romance, Made in Nashville came out! We still remember the cowboy themed launch party! Happy Book Birthday, Mandy!

Check out the reviewer comments and blurb below then listen to the gorgeous Luke Bryan who was topping the country charts when the book came out! Yeehaw!

***** Reviewed The Book - Top Five Reads of 2014 *****

***** Cosmochicklitan - Top Ten Reads of 2014 *****

'Sensual romance tied up in a lovely and engrossing story' - Jeannie Zelos Book Reviews

'Mandy never disappoints on the book boyfriend front but she's definitely outdone herself this time!' - BestChickLit

'Read it - you won't be disappointed.' - Siib90

'Action, drama, romance - what more could you want out of a fabulous read?' - Linn B Halton

'This is an emotional 5 star read. Highly recommended.' - Janice Horton

'A gritty, romantic journey, full of twists and turns, ensues and keeps you gripped.' -Kindle_Addict

An on-stage attack left Honor Blackwood with more scars than just the one on her face. It's been ten years since she left her spot as Nashville's brightest country music star. Is now the time to return? And is she brave enough to do it?

Country rebel and rock star, Jared 'Jed' Marshall is hot property on the Tennessee music scene in more ways than one. He's wild, he's sexy and everybody wants a piece of him. But when he sets his sights on Honor, is it pure attraction or just distraction on his mind?

Honor's record label sign the ex-boyfriend that dumped her and suddenly going back to her old life is harder than she thought. And when a secret from the past becomes public knowledge it's no longer just about the music. Are all the people in her life lying to her to get what they want?

Join the country scene to find out!

You Tube Link:
Luke Bryan - Drink a Beer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM5aW83L_DE

Mandy Baggot is an award-winning romantic fiction author, writing hot heroes and emotional reads. She is represented by Kate Nash of The Kate Nash Literary Agency.

In 2012 she won the Innovation in Romantic Fiction award at the UK's Festival of Romance and has since scooped Top Ten Reads/Book of the Year places from a number of UK book bloggers.

Traditionally published by US publisher Sapphire Star, Harper Collins' digital first romance imprint, Harper Impulse, and most recently, digital fiction specialists, Bookouture, a great story is never far from her fingertips!

A contributor to writing blogs and short story anthologies, Mandy is also a regular speaker at literary festivals, events and women’s networking groups.

Mandy loves mashed potato, white wine, country music, World's Strongest Man, travel and handbags. She has appeared on ITV1's Who Dares Sings and auditioned for The X-Factor.

Mandy is a member of the Romantic Novelists' Association and the Society of Authors and lives near Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK with her husband, two daughters and cats, Kravitz and Springsteen.

Visit her website at http://www.mandybaggot.com/

Latest release: Made in Nashville – http://smarturl.it/buymadeinnashville
Amazon UK: http://ow.ly/sjq4v
Amazon US: http://ow.ly/sjqbM
Twitter: http://twitter.com/mandybaggot
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/mandybaggotauthor
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2968625.Mandy_Baggot
Loveahappyending Bookshelf: http://loveahappyending.org/mandy-baggot/
Sapphire Star Publishing: http://www.sapphirestarpublishing.com/mandybaggot
Harper Impulse: http://ow.ly/mAQBP

Eve xx

Writing Goals: Published versus before!

2/2/2015

I’ve noticed that my year actually starts in February, not January. Sure, I try and hit the ground running on the 1st of the 1st, but the problem with January is its ability to whizz by at the speed of light. The speed of light may be how I wish I could accomplish stuff, but the reality is that I tend to spend the first month in the calendar working my way out of the massive food-and-drink stupor I fell into over Christmas.

I still write during January but I also crave To Do lists, admin, and housework. I can’t even begin to think about the whole flying without wings thing that is actually my new writing goals for the year, until I’ve cleared the decks a little.

So now it’s February and my writing goals, as always, falls into two camps: Goals I Can Achieve Easily and Goals That Scare the You-Know-What out of me.

Before I was published, “Get Published” sat squarely at the top of Goals That Scare the You-Know-What out of me—mostly on account of needing to come to terms with feeling the fear and doing it anyway. That whole “What if I fail” factor is pretty big for some of us.

To conquer the fear, and perhaps because “Getting Published” sounded a bit too amorphous, I broke it down into mini goals that felt much easier to achieve and might lead to publication. One thing I knew for certain was that getting published was made up of a shed-load of hard work and a healthy pinch of good luck. I knew I couldn’t control the luck, but I could control the hard work.

Of course what I immediately discovered after getting published was that a new set of goals suddenly appears. All authors are works in progress, and in order to keep progressing, the Goals That Scare the You-Know-What out of you are needed more than ever.

For a while this particular knowledge stank!

It would all be so much easier if the goals that helped me grow the most and helped me learn how to adapt at speed to an ever-changing industry were those easier ones. But nope—it’s the scary ones. The ones that push me out of my comfort zone, the ones where I can’t feel the ground beneath my feet, the ones that I might fail at, that are the most helpful to me in growing as an author.

This year I’m plumping for a mixture of both again; with the easier goals hopefully giving me the confidence to tackle the scarier ones. That, at least, feels familiar. And actually exciting. New-Year-new-possibilities exciting.

I might not reach all my goals. Life has a habit of going awry sometimes. That’s okay. I’ll let myself off of some of them if that happens. Not the scary ones though, because writing doesn’t stop when you’re published—like the industry, it’s ever-changing and ever-evolving. I’ll always write sexy heroes, sassy heroines and happy ever afters, but I plan to stretch myself too. And who knows what giving talks about writing might lead to? Other than panic attacks and a worse stutter, that is!

So now we’re one month into 2015. How are you getting on with your resolutions and goals? And are they ones you secretly know you’ll achieve, or are some of them awesomely terrifying but you’re not going to let that stop you?

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