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From Laurie Schnebly Campbell ([email protected]):
YOUR PLOT / CHARACTER / STORY BRAID
Sept. 5-30
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Weaving the different strands and levels of your story is trickier than making a simple braid, but the idea is the same: you need to give equal attention to every separate element that’s part of the finished creation. Whether you’re braiding the conflict and resolution of a thriller, romance, fantasy, mystery or any other journey of discovery, learn how to deliver the balance your readers expect.
Voyage of Life by Richard McMaster
Forty-eight years is a long time and even a longer time to miss the only woman you ever loved. The Voyage of Life, a coming of age in the sixties story, is told as the Robert Cole Voyage of Life paintings are described by the woman Sean loves. The painting’s descriptions of Childhood, Youth, Manhood and Old Age become a
metaphor for his life-the verdant landscape and calm waters of childhood become turbulent in youth and then early in manhood the shores turn rocky when he believes his one true love left him for another man.
Now available on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Voyage-Life-story-Love/ife
The Bull Rider’s Son is a finalist in the contemporary series category of the Book Buyers Best contest. Yay Cathy!
Cassidy Beckett has a secret she’s kept for six years: the identity of her son’s father. She can’t hide the truth much longer. The Easy Money Arena’s new bull manager, Shane Westcott, also happens to be the boy’s handsome uncle. But Cassidy will do anything to protect her young son, even if it means steeling her heart against Shane’s nearly irresistible charm. It doesn’t take Shane long to figure out two things— Cassidy’s son is his nephew, and his feelings for the boy’s beautiful mother go way beyond friendship. As a single dad, Shane knows how important a father is to a child. He also knows the men in Cassidy’s life have let her down before. Can Shane convince Cassidy to face the truth without losing her trust…or his heart?
Available at these booksellers:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-bull-riders-son-cathy-mcdavid/1121000581#productInfoTabs https://www.amazon.com/Bull-Riders-Son-Reckless-Arizona/dp/0373755759
Get ready for the September 14th re-release on Amazon!
Passion of Sleepy Hollow by Lexie Post
Recluse Braeden Van Brunt is not happy to be the Headless
Horseman…until he meets Katrina Van Tassel, owner of the Sleepy Hollow Inn, whose allure bewitches him from the front desk into the bedroom. When he discovers Kat and the village of Sleepy Hollow are cursed to exist only in the present day for one weekend a year, he realizes the sacrifice he must make if he wants to keep her.
Katrina Van Tassel lives between slivers of time. She thought she was through grieving her betrothed’s death, but her dreams flare to life when his mirror-image arrives requesting a room. Drawn to Braeden, she is taken to greater heights of intimacy than she ever imagined, but she can’t be sure if her heart is with him or with the love from her past.
Knowing he must conquer both time and ghosts to keep the only woman he’s ever loved, Braeden must put the past to rest. But the dead won’t rest in Sleepy Hollow.
https://www.amazon.com/Passion-Sleepy-Hollow-Lexi-Post-ebook/dp/B01KL6KANY/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1473219927&sr=1-1&keywords=passion+of+sleepy+hollow
K.T. Roberts has two books coming out in 2016!
Blind Retribution - Nov. 29, 2016 Strangers in the Night - Oct. 2016
It should have been an open-and-shut case. When a car bomb explodes, taking with it the wife of a prominent heart surgeon, NYPD Detective Maxine Turner is sure she has arrested the right suspect—until Cory Rossini, a private investigator, begins muddying the waters. Max already has enough to deal with: her longtime partner is retiring, her latest case is suddenly anything but simple, and she now has a troubling attraction to a man who is proving to be annoyingly persistent.
Having taken on the task of proving his friend’s innocence, Cory isn’t about to drop the ball—no matter how distractingly beautiful he finds the detective assigned to the investigation. When his sleuthing turns up other homicides connected to the cardiology department, including a young woman whose throat has been slit, he convinces Max that they should work together. And as they delve further into the vicious murders, they search for the one lead that will steer them straight to a killer . . .
For More information go to K.T.’s website at: https://authorktroberts.wordpress.com/
Strangers in the Night is a Christmas story that will go live October 15th in a box set titled Romancing Christmas II.
During one magical Christmas Eve, Frank and Ericka meet unexpectedly in a wine shop. They spend the afternoon together only to realize they’d be perfect for one another, but Ericka believes so strongly in fate she’s convinced if they’re meant to be, they will see one another again. A year later Ericka inadvertently learns about a secret Frank is hiding. Will fate override his secret and bring them back together, or will it ruin everything they’ve dreamt about?
For More information go to K.T.’s website at: https://authorktroberts.wordpress.com/