Wednesday 25 September 2013

Tough LOVE

Janessa knows she should run in the other direction when Brendan enters her life. Her squeaky-clean upbringing is in direct opposition to his piercings, a myriad of tattoos and the rumors that surround him. But she doesn’t run. Love, betrayal and lies become the foundation of their lives, but one heartbreaking confession makes Janessa question everything. After a devastating diagnosis, Janessa’s world crumbles around her. When she can no longer ignore the reality of who Brendan really is, she must choose between those who love her and the only one she has ever loved.Marcie Bridges has always wanted to be a writer, from the time she started keeping a diary in seventh grade. Since then, she has earned a master’s degree in education from Cumberland University while teaching some wonderful children with special needs in Indiana, Tennessee and Kentucky.</p>
    While she will always bleed scarlet and gray (GO BUCKS!), she now lives south of Cincinnati with her husband and daughter. When Marcie isn’t writing, she can be found reading, watching her favorite TV shows, listening to music, or browsing her favorite websites.

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Friday 20 September 2013

ETERNAL BLADES, Book Three in the Sekhmet's Guardian's Series

ETERNAL BLADES, Book Three in the Sekhmet's Guardian's Series by V.S. Nelson, releasing November 2nd, 2013.


Tshering Snow never meant to fall hopelessly in love with her savior, the Ancient, known as Lance, but she did. He seems to care deeply for her, spending every available hour with her, but will he be able to give up his past and settle down with one woman? After all, he has the reputation of a playboy.

Lance hates the personification he has created around himself. Afraid the others might not understand why; he has held back the truth from Gabriel and the other Guardians, he has waited for the right woman, the one Sekhmet prophesized so long ago. And now he has found her. When he is accused of fathering a child by both Gabriel and Tshering, how can he make them believe the child is not his, even if the boy is a spitting imagine of him?

After the women are attacked by Set’s Legions while relaxing on Jennifer’s new yacht, they come to the unanimous decision; they will train and join the Guardian forces. But that’s not as easy as it was meant to be. Old fashioned and hard headed, Gabriel is determined he will not having women fighting in their war.

When Tshering, Jennifer and Jessica are taken hostage by Set’s Legions all hell breaks loose on the Guardian’s compound. Lost without their mates, brother fights brother while they try save their women and put an end to the Legion’s terror. Will Sekhmet, the goddess they serve, step in and reveal the truth or will she leave them to find their own solutions to a never ending war as she has in the past?

Thursday 19 September 2013

Interview with The authors of "Hero for hire"...

Well after along time ...I  dragged myself into an interview . This time I felt it cool because...
Today we have two authors for same book..Might not be surprising but interesting.....

I proudly announce the Author Merissa And Margaret 's New book Hero For Hire...


First I checked randomly...The blurb it was quite attracting...And I went in to read a bit of story...For my surprise it was a flattening story..and a good feed for readers.

I was unable to get to Margaret but i came up with Merissa

Here she welcomed me with a huge greets of morning......

Good morning!Yadav !  Thanks for having us here today—we’re so excited about our story, and are having so much fun chatting about it. 




You’ve got a cool cover that says “Attracting story” nicely. How much impact do you think covers and blurbs have in getting people to try a book by an unknown author?


Thanks! I think covers are huge. Margaret and I were nervous about how our cover would look—our publisher has cover artists and while we had input on what we’d like to see on the cover, we weren’t involved in the design. So when we got to see what was proposed, we were ecstatic. We both loved it, and sent immediate gushing praise to the cover artist Lyrical had assigned to us.

The blurb, we did come up with, and we’re proud of it. We wanted something that communicated the feel of the writing and the story, so that readers looking at the blurb would get what they expected in the book.

When deciding on a book to buy, the blurb is something I look at in figuring out if it’s a book I will enjoy, and I think that a lot of readers base their decision to buy in large part on the cover and blurb. If they are well done, chances are, the story is too.

How did you go about uploading the book into the Kindle, Apple, B&N stores, etc.? Do you just go through the regular selfpublishing dashboards, or do you need to make an account in the other country?

Happily, Lyrical Press is in charge of getting our story into all the e-book retailers. My contribution has been to obsessively check each of the stores daily to see if Hero For Hire is listed yet.
Kobo, I-tunes, and a couple others allow for the smaller presses to have pre-order opportunities by uploading the book and going live before release date. Others (Amazon and Barnes and Noble—I’m looking at you guys) didn’t have the book go live until right before release date. I don’t know if that’s the case across the board, or just with Hero For Hire.


You told that Everything on your  behalf is done by Lyrical Press..About marketing then what were the process took by Lyrical Press. How did you go about uploading the book into the Kindle, Apple, B&N stores, etc.? Do you just go through the regular selfpublishing dashboards, or do you need to make an account in the other country?  [quite a big question ha !!!]


Happily, Lyrical Press is in charge of getting our story into all the e-book retailers. My contribution has been to obsessively check each of the stores daily to see if Hero For Hire is listed yet.
With  a smile....

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Kobo, I-tunes, and a couple others allow for the smaller presses to have pre-order opportunities by uploading the book and going live before release date. Others (Amazon and Barnes and Noble—I’m looking at you guys) didn’t have the book go live until right before release date. I don’t know if that’s the case across the board, or just with Hero For Hire.

I see you tweeting book quotations and other such teasers often on Twitter. Can you talk about how social media has played a role in your sales success?

Sure, I’d love to talk about this! This is a first book for both Margaret and I. We don’t already have a fan base, and so we are starting from the beginning with Hero For Hire. Lyrical Pres has given us our own line (Tales from Beyond the End) and we have more books in the works for that line of stories, set in the same world. The reason I’m going on about all that, is because we’re really invested in this line of stories, and Lyrical Press is invested with us. We all want the readers to love Hero For Hire as much as we do. Problem is, none of them have any idea who we are, or what Hero For Hire is.

Social Media to the rescue! You bloggers have been awesome in helping get the word out there about Hero For Hire, as have all our Face Book friends, and our Twitter followers. There’s an amazing community of readers out there, who, when they find a story they love, spread the word like rock stars.  To all of them, we say Thank you. You guys are amazing. Awesome. And we adore you all.

What are you planning next, and where can people {your readers of our blog} find out more?

As I already mentioned, Lyrical has given us our own category, Tales From Beyond the End. Those stories are all set in the same world you read about in Hero For Hire.

In addition, we are working on a line of Contemporary Romances, set in the MMA world, and while we can’t make an announcement on that yet, there will be an announcement soon. I love hearing from readers. So please know, you have an open invitation to email, comment, tweet and facebook me. If you decide to take me up on that, here’s where you guys can find me.

I have a website of my own: www.merissamccain.com, one I share with Margaret: www.bestbooksintheworld.com, and I’m all over social media at

http://www.facebook.com/MerissaMcCain and
http://twitter.com/

MerissaMcCain. My email is merissa.mccain@gmail.com.

If you are looking for Margaret, you can find her at www.bestbooksintheworld.com,

on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/mmadiganauthor,
on Twitter at @mmadiganauthor.

I’m always hoping to find new advertising venues that actually work out (i.e. authors make as much from sales as they paid for the ad). Did you do any advertising or has this all been word of mouth?

I did a bit of FaceBook advertising, and have a Goodreads campaign scheduled.  With each, I’m looking more for name recognition than actual sales, because if a reader has seen your name around multiple times, they’re more likely to pick up your book at some point. But I think most sales are generated by awesome reviews, and word of mouth—people telling their friends to pick something up because they’ll enjoy it. My hope is that readers will feel strongly enough about Hero For Hire that they will recommend it to their friends and followers.

You chose a price tag instead of   $0.99 that many indies start out with. Why the higher price and do you think it’s had an impact on sales?

  You asked about our price tag—

Lyrical Press is a smaller press and they are publishing this story under their Ever After line. They set the price tag, and they do it by word count, I believe.  All of their stories follow the same pricing by word count structure.

I love that indies are able to sell stories at the .99 cent price point, but we really felt this story could get the best coverage and editing for Hero For Hire if we went through a reliable small press. I suppose the cost to that is that the price point is higher, but I’d do it again because I think Lyrical has done well by Hero For Hire.

With regard to sales—we’re just starting out, so it’s hard to say. But  I really hope readers will take a chance and pick Hero For Hire up. I think the price tag is not as much a chilling factor to buying the book (after all, it’s priced at less than the cost of a single cup of coffee most places). I think the cost people worry most about is time. No one wants to put time into a story they won’t enjoy. My hope is that reviews and word of mouth will help readers decide that Hero for Hire is a book they’d like to read.
blurb. If they are well done, chances are, the story is too.
 
Hoping that your Book takes a flight.....Feel free .It will be great book of this year for you...Hoping many books from your side.....Anything remained to tell our readres about us..?


Thanks so much for having us. These were awesome questions, and got me thinking about things I hadn’t really considered in depth before.  I love talking about Hero For Hire, and I really appreciate you
Yadav Prashanth giving me the chance to indulge in that.


Hero for Hire Tales from Beyond the End #1

Hero for Hire
Tales from Beyond the End #1


Merissa McCain & Margaret Madigan

Releasing October 1st, 2013


Blurb






One day her prince would come…disguised as a zombie-killer.
Having been disgraced and tossed out by her own scientific community, Gwyn is convinced she can develop a cure for a SuperVirus that has turned the Infected into zombies. By pure luck and determination, she has survived on her own for years, but while out scavenging, a clash with the local zombies leaves her potentially infected. Now, running out of time, she needs help and takes a chance on a hero for hire.
Rafe loves the apocalypse. Since the world went to hell, everything’s come up roses for him. Having procured a mansion in the Hollywood hills, adopted a slew of homeless boys and one cantankerous but useful Doc, Mr. Charming is benefiting from the nasty zombie infestation. His job? Killing the bastards, which he considers fun anyway.
Gwyn Snow needs Rafe Charming to help retrieve her research from the Paragon Pharmaceuticals lab, also known as Zombie Central. Believing she can yet save the world, Gwyn makes Rafe question what’s right and what’s worth the fight.
CONTENT WARNING: Prince Charming, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves as you’ve never seen them before.


Buy Links:
iTunes:  https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/hero-for-hire/id677147662?mt=11


http://tastybooktours.blogspot.com/2013/07/now-booking-tasty-virtual-book-tour-for_24.html

Author Info
Merissa McCain


My name is Merissa McCain. I grew up in the African bush, without T.V, and often without electricity. I now live in the deep South, with my very own superhero, and my three minons. Together, we attempt to take over the world.
When not otherwise occupied with planning world domination, I love to read, write, drink strong coffee and eat dark chocolate--not necessarily in that order and sometimes all at once.  I'm a voracious reader, and will devour any type of good fiction I can get my hands on, but I'm particularly partial to happy endings.
I write with a partner (Margaret Madigan) and on my own. We love to hear from our readers, so please shoot us an email at Merissa.mccain@gmail.com or mmadiganauthor@gmail.com.


Margaret Madigan

Hi. I'm Margaret Madigan. Or M.K.D. Bail, depending on what literary genre we're talking about.
I live in the vast Northern Plains where it’s quiet and mostly empty, and very conducive to letting my imagination run wild. As a result, I have difficulty focusing on just one genre of storytelling. Of course, I love romance, so I write a lot of that, but I also write science fiction, a bit of horror, and dabble in other genres just for the fun of it.

When I’m not writing you’ll find me in a college classroom teaching English, or working as a literary agent for an amazing agency…and of course enjoying time with my family.

Sunday 15 September 2013

Midshipman Henry Gallant In Space by H. Peter Alesso

Midshipman Henry Gallant In Space by H. Peter Alesso





As the last star fighter in squadron 111, Midshipman Henry Gallant is on his way from Jupiter to Mars. With the United Planets’ fleet on the verge of annihilation, he can expect no help as he passes through the asteroid belt and threatening aliens. With so much uncertainty about the aliens’ capabilities and intentions, analyzing the captured computer equipment in Gallant’s possession could prove crucial.
The fate of Earth could rest on the abilities of Midshipman Henry Gallant. Unfortunately, it is his abilities that have been much in doubt during his tour of duty. In an era of genetic engineering, he is the only Natural (non-genetically enhanced) officer left in the fleet. His classmates and superior officers have all expressed their concern that he will not be up to the demands of the space service. Only bright and attractive junior officer Kelsey Mitchel has shown any sympathy for him. Now as his navigator on the last fighter in squadron 111, her life as well as a good many others, depends of Henry Gallant.