A Peek Into A SECOND CHANCE AT FOREVER with Author JM Stewart

Joanne Stewart, a contemporary Champagne Rose author, is at A Bite of Reuben Sandwich today talking about her upcoming release, A Second Chance at Forever.  We'd love to have you join us! http://www.abiteofreubensandwich.blogspot.com/

~ Alyson Reuben
author of A Beautiful Cage

Hearts in Darkness, by Laura Kaye - Release, Reviews & Giveaway

I'm so excited to announce the release of HEARTS IN DARKNESS, my debut contemporary romance. Just as exciting, HEARTS has already garnered two great reviews:

• 4/5 stars from Ashlie at Bookish Novelties
• 5/5 hearts from Marissa at Sizzling Hot Book Reviews

So, in celebration of all this good news, I'm offering a giveaway of a totally cute Hearts-inspired heart-wing charm on a silver bracelet! 

To enter, simply email your purchase receipt to laurakayepromotions@gmail.com.  When I receive 50 receipts, I will draw one lucky winner to win one of a handful of HEARTS IN DARKNESS - inspired charm bracelets!  I'll do this for the first 250 receipts I receive (in increments of 50, 100, 100 receipts; 1 entry per person), giving away a total of three bracelets!

HEARTS BLURB:

Makenna James thinks her day can’t get any worse, until she finds herself stuck in a pitch-black elevator with a complete stranger. Distracted by a phone call and juggling too much stuff, the pin-striped accountant caught only a glimpse of a dragon tattoo on his hand before the lights went out.

Caden Grayson is amused when a redhead literally falls at his feet. His amusement turns to panic when the power fails. Despite his piercings, tats, and vicious scar, he’s terrified of the dark and confined spaces. Now, he’s trapped in his own worst nightmare.

To fight fear, they must both reach out and open up. With no preconceived notions based on looks to hold them back, they discover just how much they have in common. In the warming darkness, attraction grows and sparks fly, but will they feel the same when the lights come back on?

 HEARTS BOOK TRAILER:

So, don't forget!  Buy, then enter to win!

So proud to be a Rose! And let me offer a special big thank you shout-out to my editor, Eilidh Mackenzie!

Laura Kaye

Find Laura on the interwebz:

• Website: http://www.LauraKayeAuthor.com
• Blog: http://laurakayeauthor.blogspot.com
• Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/laurakayeauthor
• Twitter: @laurakayeauthor
• TWRP Website: http://thewildrosepress.com/index.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=800
• Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/3703867

The Trouble with Tomboys Countdown

My book, THE TROUBLE WITH TOMBOYS, releases this Friday from The Wild Rose Press's Champagne line!! So starting today, I'm throwing a countdown party on my blog to celebrate. There, you can find interesting facts about The Trouble with Tomboys every day until Friday. Just click to http://www.lindakage.com/blog.html for contests, deleted scenes, videos and more.

If by chance you're interested, you can go HERE for purchasing information.

OR you can enter my contest now and try to win a free copy HERE.
(Contest Deadline : August 13, 2010 : Winners Announced : August 27, 2010)

Here's a little about : The Trouble with Tomboys
It takes pilot B.J. Gilmore to teach widower Grady Rawlings that love 'tomboy-style' can heal his wounded heart.
Contemporary Adult Romance*
from The Wild Rose Press
ISBN : 1-60154-790-0
Available : August 6, 2010
In Print and Ebook
*Sexually Explicit Scenes and Language


THE TOMBOY

Pilot B.J. Gilmore is Tommy Creek, Texas’s tough tomboy who loves to fly planes and gamble and doesn’t give a whip what anyone thinks or says about her…until Grady Rawlings steps into her life.

PLUS THE WIDOWER

Heir to an oil dynasty, Grady has inner demons to battle. Ever since his wife and unborn child died two and half years ago, he’s developed a deep-seated hatred for sympathy and can’t handle anyone feeling sorry for him or treating him like some pitiful widower.

EQUALS TROUBLE IN TEXAS

Grady hires B.J,'s plane service to fly him to Houston for an overnight business trip. While there, she coaxes him into accompanying her to a late dinner, where she decides it’s time for him to move on with his life. A month later, she turns up pregnant with his baby, and neither of them is prepared for the chaos that follows.

To read an excerpt, click HERE.

Claire Ashgrove's New Release for Christmas

Just in time for Christmas!!

All I Want For Christmas... Is Big Blue Eyes releases today from The Wild Rose Press.

Some dreams were never
meant to be...

Renowned architect, Josh McDaniels, spent ten years avoiding his hometown and the unforgettable memories of his youth. But when a former classmate phones him before Christmas with a proposal he can’t refuse, he finds himself back in small-town, Lexington, Missouri, surrounded by holiday festivities and engulfed in memories of a blue-eyed girl.


Amanda Masterson knows three things about Josh. She loves him, he loves her, and he’ll walk out when those feelings terrify him, as he always does. Ten years ago, he abandoned their dreams. Eight years ago, he returned to break her heart again. Now, he’s back once more, and this time, he’s jeopardizing not only her heart but her daughter’s as well.


Can the spirit of Christmas overcome a past riddled with mistakes? Or will fears and doubts destroy the greatest gift of all?


Check out the excerpt!

Available in both electronic format and print format. You can purchase them here.

I hope all of you have a wonderful holiday season, and thank you all for your continued support.

~Claire

Great review for Going with Gravity!

by Cate Masters
I was so excited this morning to find a great review for Going with Gravity from Long and Short Romance Reviews!
Here's how Xeranthemum summed up her review:
"If you are looking for a romance story which can make you believe that love is real, that it can sneak up on you when you least expect it and thrill to its force as a powerful whirlwind for change, then you are going enjoy reading Going with Gravity."
Wow, thanks, Xeranthemum!
Here's the blurb for Going with Gravity:
Publicist Allison Morris plans her own life – what’s left of it – around the life of her boss Michelle McCarter, the ex-wife of a famous rock star. When Michelle needs emergency public relations patchwork in Hawaii pronto, Allison arranges a flight to the dream destination. At the airport, she meets Wes Hamilton, a six-foot-three sun-bleached blond whose blue eyes and dazzling smile rekindle her fizzled-out sizzle. A world-renowned surfer, Wes captivates her with his charm and wit, though his easy fame and on-the-edge lifestyle are the polar opposite of her own. When their jet loses its fuselage in mid-air, she takes advantage of what she thinks are her last minutes alive with Wes. The plane lands safely. Wes takes care of her when her carefully constructed life begins to unravel. When Michelle accuses Allison of using Wes to gain fame for herself, Allison’s world falls apart in an explosive confrontation. Wes is waiting with open arms when she has nowhere else to go, but can Allison learn to stop planning and go with gravity?

And you can view the trailer at www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9C0LCXFZww

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Cate
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Release day and contest - Going with Gravity

by Cate Masters

I'm excited to announce Going with Gravity's available today! It's my first Champagne Rose with TWRP. To celebrate, I'm giving away a PDF copy to a commenter on my blog at http://catemasters.blogspot.com, so come on over! And be sure to check back tomorrow night, when I'll announce the winner.

Here's the story blurb:
Publicist Allison Morris plans her own life – what’s left of it – around the life of her boss Michelle McCarter, the ex-wife of a famous rock star. When Michelle needs emergency public relations patchwork in Hawaii pronto, Allison arranges a flight to the dream destination. At the airport, she meets Wes Hamilton, a six-foot-three sun-bleached blond whose blue eyes and dazzling smile rekindle her fizzled-out sizzle. A world-renowned surfer, Wes captivates her with his charm and wit, though his easy fame and on-the-edge lifestyle are the polar opposite of her own. When their jet loses its fuselage in mid-air, she takes advantage of what she thinks are her last minutes alive with Wes. The plane lands safely. Wes takes care of her when her carefully constructed life begins to unravel. When Michelle accuses Allison of using Wes to gain fame for herself, Allison’s world falls apart in an explosive confrontation. Wes is waiting with open arms when she has nowhere else to go, but can Allison learn to stop planning and go with gravity?

Going with Gravity's release date!

Isn't it fun to find good news in your email? My Champagne Rose editor, Cindy Davis, emailed me with the release date for Going with Gravity - July 15. Wooot! I can't wait. This is my first release with the Champagne Rose line of The Wild Rose Press.
Here is the blurb and excerpt:
Blurb
Publicist Allison Morris plans her own life – what’s left of it – around the life of her boss Michelle McCarter, the ex-wife of a famous rock star. When Michelle needs emergency public relations patchwork in Hawaii pronto, Allison arranges a flight to the dream destination. At the airport, she meets Wes Hamilton, a six-foot-three sun-bleached blond whose blue eyes and dazzling smile rekindle her fizzled-out sizzle. A world-renowned surfer, Wes captivates her with his charm and wit, though his easy fame and on-the-edge lifestyle are the polar opposite of her own. When their jet loses its fuselage in mid-air, she takes advantage of what she thinks are her last minutes alive with Wes. The plane lands safely. Wes takes care of her when her carefully constructed life begins to unravel. When Michelle accuses Allison of using Wes to gain fame for herself, Allison’s world falls apart in an explosive confrontation. Wes is waiting with open arms when she has nowhere else to go, but can Allison learn to stop planning and go with gravity?

Excerpt
Allison pulled her portfolio from her laptop case and set it on her lap, afraid to open it. As soon as the articles had arrived on her fax machine, she’d shoved them into her bag, then hopped in the shower. Delay tactics only worked for so long. The moment of truth had arrived. She opened it and thumbed through. Eleven pages. Eleven. And these were only the newspaper articles from the past two days. TV and online news sites surely covered more. And then there’d be the inevitable blogger. Uncontrollable, overly opinionated and accountable to no one, they were the worst.
Michelle had arrived on Oahu with a bang, and then had the audacity to blame Allison for not doing her job to quell the media. She held up one photo of a topless Michelle prancing in the surf, laughing. Rumors and innuendo could be stopped with logic and tact, but to downplay this photo, she’d need a good explanation. When Michelle’s logic and tact failed her so obviously, Allison had to wonder about her mental state.
A hulking figure filled the aisle, stowing his bag in the overhead compartment.
Those shorts. That shirt.
It was him.
He checked his ticket, looked at her and smiled. His blond hair fell across his forehead as he sat next to her, his shoulder bumping hers. “Hello again.”
For two years, she’d rubbed elbows with stars of all magnitudes without so much as a blink, and fended off paparazzi following the wife of megastar James McCarter.
With two words, she’d been reduced to the rank of dreamy-eyed teeny bopper.
He smiled, raised an eyebrow.
She realized, then, she hadn’t responded. And her mouth hung open.
Make that drooling dreamy-eyed teeny bopper.
She flashed a smile. Think. Damage control is your business. Put it to good use for once.
“Hi.” Oh, yes. Very witty. What a deft deflection of his charm.
She turned back to her articles, but sensed the weight of his stare.
He frowned at her reading material. “Sorry. Didn’t mean to read over your shoulder. I take it you’re a closet fan of the poor little rich girl?”
“In the same way I’m a closet fan of train wrecks, I suppose. I guess you’re not a fan.”
“Of hers?” He chuckled. “God, no. She’s awful. Her publicist should be shot.”
Shot. Of course. Working fifty-five to sixty-five hours a week wasn’t enough to keep the spin spinning fast enough for the rest of the world. The one guy who’d interested her in the past two and a half years thought she made a good candidate for execution. Her life was in such a rut, she’d need mountain climbing gear to get out.
“If you’re a fan, I didn’t mean to offend.” Sincerity had wiped the smile from his face.
“Actually, I’m..” She turned and smiled, “…her publicist.”

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A dream is a wish your heart makes.

Didn't some fairy tale heroine sing that? Was it Snow White? Well, here I am living out my dream. I am Jennifer Johnson. My book called "The Jinx" will be released this year some time in the Champagne Rose line. I'm really pushing the boundaries here with this book. Here are just a few reasons why: The hero, Rick, is a plumber. He's sexy (okay, that's not pushing the boundaries), but his pants don't show his butt crack, so that might definitely be something. Ellen Anderson, the heroine, decides frozen hamburger meat could be used as a good a weapon. Should one throw the meat hoping to hit the other guy on the head; or just use it like a bat? Also, the rabbit - is it four times as lucky as one rabbit's foot? It would seem so logically. I do have a hot tub scene in the book, but no sex in the hot tub - only a broken foot. How out-of-the-box is that? "The Jinx" is a fun and funny story; and I think anyone who reads it will have a smile on her face - several times.

I keep checking my little space out on the Wild Rose Press website to make sure I really am one of the authors on there. That is really nifty! My blog is JennFrancesca.blogspot.com. When I figure out how the heck to get a website started, I'm sure I'll have one of those babies, too. Hello, to all of you cool people. I am thrilled to be here!