Marketing with Mandy~Linden Bay Romance Publisher Spotlight Part III

Q: Tell us a little about your experience with Linden Bay Romance.

A: Linden Bay has been just wonderful. I can’t think of a better word. Barb Perfetti, acquisitions editor, is tough, but she truly cares about the quality of the work, and any suggestions she makes is only going to make your book better. Lori James is so helpful with marketing. She was a huge help with my booksigning this month. Couldn’t have done it without her!

Q: What tips/tricks do you use for marketing or promoting your own titles?

A: Definitely my website, first and foremost. It’s your internet home, a place you can send everyone to give them information about your books and your characters and your author presence. A blog is also helpful. Personally speaking, I have a great many authors on my favorites shelf that I’ve found through blogs.

Q: What is one thing you’d want to tell a newer author, just coming into the game?

A: Never give up! I know that sounds clichéd, but it’s so true. And start an internet presence as soon as you can, even before you’re published. It’s never too early to start gaining a readership.

Q: Could you tell us a bit about your latest release?

A: GHOST OF A CHANCE is my latest release. Here’s a blurb: GHOST OF A CHANCE:

What happens when ghost and mortal fall in love? Nothing short of upsetting the balance between heaven and hell…

Nathan McGraw thought death was bad. It’s nothing to landing back on Earth or ticking off a demon. He intends to find out why Sarah Price is the only mortal who can see him, even if he has to break the laws of the hereafter.

Sarah Price isn’t going to take it anymore. Not from her ex who is trying to financially destroy her. Not from her family who is making her business a circus. And certainly not from a ghost who claims she is the key to sending him back to heaven.

Q: What’s your favorite genre to write in and why?

A: I love both historical and paranormal. GHOST OF A CHANCE gave me that opportunity to work with both since hero Nathan McGraw is a ghost from the year 1757. Oh, and I should probably mention that I just completed book two, the sequel to GHOST OF A CHANCE. Currently untitled, it is in consideration stage at Linden Bay Romance. (fingers crossed…)

Q: How do you come up with your ideas?

A: I’ve often heard this is the toughest question for a writer. I honestly have no idea. I can tell you, though, that I came up with the idea for GHOST OF A CHANCE while I was planting spring bulbs in a cemetery. Creepy, I know. LOL!

Q: How do balance family and writing?

A: Writing is a balancing act for me. I work full time so I don’t have a set amount of hours I can spend at a time. I write in little spurts throughout the week. I do get some writing done while driving. Not to fear, I dictate on a small tape recorder then type it up later. Hmmm…that would explain a lot about my driving, though… But seriously, I would be lost without my Alphasmart. If anyone has ever thought about buying one, they’re a huge timesaver.

LINKS:
Website
Blog
Newsletter

Q: Tell us a little about your experience with Linden Bay Romance

A: It has been excellent. Being this is my first published book, they were very helpful. Lori and Barb really know the market and were helpful in instructing me in what I can do to become successful. The editing staff was great too. It is a different experience after writing a novel to get it professionally edited.

Q: What tips/tricks do you use for marketing or promoting your own titles?

A: I wrote down all the things I wanted to do. It’s like a synopsis. Once I have it written down, then I can start acting on it. I have my book info on my email. That is just basis. I bought 100 books myself and began selling and using them to promote myself around Toronto.

Q: What is one thing you’d want to tell a newer author, just coming into the game?

A: Be very careful with your title. If there was anything I did that maybe I shouldn’t have would be to go with the title “The Secrets of Harden Long”. Not the kind of title that allows the book to be placed in a bookstore window.

Q: Could you tell us a bit about your latest release?

A: The Secrets of Harden Long is a story about stereotypes. A slobby bachelor writes a romance novel about an orphaned prince and it becomes so successful it is turned into a “Made for TV” movie. A tall, skinny hick living in a trailer park in Texas sees so many similarities in the movie to his own life that he is sure he is the Crown Prince of Canada and sets off to Canada to claim his birthright.

Q: What’s your favorite genre to write in and why?

A: Comedy. Yet, all of my writing has a romantic angle to them, so Romantic Comedy. I have a rather unique sense of humor. I see things in everyday life that are funny and I like to capitalize on that. Like, have you ever seen

Q: How did you get into writing?

A: I actually wrote my first book around the age of 10. The Myers Briggs test told me I should be a writer but I spent the next 40 years doing everything but. I decided to start writing again after meeting Lois Gresh, a very successful science fiction author who I used to work with. I began taking writing classes and in 2004 I entered the Muskoka Novel Marathon. I came in 6th, beating out some seasoned authors and the following year I came in 3rd. Shortly after that I sold The Secrets of Harden Long, which by the way was written at a writer’s marathon. Of course a lot of work was spent after massaging it into a professional manuscript, but most of it was written at the event.

A writer’s marathon is an event, usually to raise money for charity, where writers gather and spend 72 hours together in the same room writing a complete novel. The camaraderie is totally amazing. Writing is such a lonely job but sitting cheek to cheek with other writers is a ton of fun .

Q: How do you come up with your ideas?

A: Usually when I am alone in thought, out walking or driving home from work.
I wrote a novel called TN’T, about the CN tower crashing into Toronto’s downtown core and wiping out the banking district. The story is about a homeless man who has powers that prey on his negative thoughts. They are powers he can’t harness and doesn’t want. I came up with this idea one day when I was out for my daily lunchtime walk. I was working at the time at one of the large banks in Canada and I hated the job. I was out walking on Bay Street, the richest street in Canada, and there lay a homeless man sleeping on a subway grate across from the one of the wealthiest banks in the world. Talk about irony. My stories usually gel within an hour after they come to me. By the time I got back to the office my story was born.

Q: How do balance family and writing?

A: I schedule time to write. Being a recent newlywed (4 years), I have a tenancy to want to spend all of my spare time with my wife Carly. She makes sure that doesn’t happen. She believes in me and my writing, probably more than I do myself, and she pushes me to get writing and I listen. Any writing function I attend she comes with me. She is as involved outside of the writing as I am in it. I can say with all honesty, if your family is not behind you, it is very hard. I had no support from my first wife and I didn’t write.

LINKS:
Webpage

Blog

To be eligible to win one of the many prizes Linden Bay Romance Authors are offering, comment THIS WEEK on their Marketing with Mandy blog spots. Winners will be announced on Sunday!

Here are some of the prizes they’ll be giving away:

Samantha Sommersby will give away a signed print copy of Forbidden: The Awakening .

Nancy Henderson will give away a note/stationary set.

Shiela Stewart will give away a signed print of her book ‘Secrets of the Dead’

Cat Johnson will give away a signed print copy of Trilogy No. 102: Opposites Attract

Peter Brandt is giving away an ebook download of his romantic comedy novel “The Secret Life of Harden Long”

Jane Beckenham is giving away an Ebook download of her book “Hiring Cupid”

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Marketing with Mandy~Linden Bay Romance Publisher Spotlight Part II

A: I cannot say enough good things about my experience with Linden Bay, especially since I have had experience with other publishers.

Of paramount importance to authors is Linden Bay’s respect for the writer’s voice and story. Manuscripts go through a content edit where the editor points out issues and/or inconsistencies, many of which are not apparent to the person crafting the story. The content editor looks at the manuscript as a reader might, making suggestions. The difference I have found with Linden Bay is that the decision to publish, and/or what to publish, is mutually arrived at by the editors, publisher, and author.

Why is this important when what every writer wants to be is published? I had a young adult novel published (mercifully under another name) which was such a dreadful experience I have never been able to read the book through. Suffice to say, I was a novice and I should have known to pull the plug when they changed the book drastically, cut out what I considered the best parts, and, in the end, lopped it off and ended it in the middle. It was, however, well-marketed and has made money for me, which is something, but honestly not the most important thing.

Being published with a work you are proud of is far more important than just being published.
Trust me!

Q: What tips/tricks do you use for marketing or promoting your own titles?

A: I have to admit that promotion and marketing is not my strong suit. (Okay, we can all stop laughing now—I readily admit it remains to be determined if I even have a strong suit.)

One of my issues is living in a small community where I’m a little reluctant to show up at the local bookstore for a signing. Why?

People who know you just don’t seem to get that it’s a “story”—they think it’s really your story. (Which of course it is, in many ways, but not in the obvious ways everyone thinks. Because redheads are underrepresented as heroines, mine frequently are, but that doesn’t mean that the redhead in the book is me. No one, I fear, really believes that.)

However, I have just drawn up a new organization schedule for myself with goals to be met weekly in marketing.

I think it probably helps to join a number of groups, something that I’ve done, but haven’t mustered up the organization to post on a periodic basis. I have also joined a local writers’ group, with the intent that group-marketing might work better for me.

Q: What is one thing you’d want to tell a newer author, just coming into the game?

A: Don’t give up. Persevere. Try different genres—all writing experience informs you. Enter contests where you receive feedback.

The best advice I might give is—always read your work aloud. If you have a critique group with whom you are comfortable, read aloud to them. But always remember it’s your voice! Even if you only read aloud to yourself, it works.

Q: Could you tell us a bit about your latest release?

A: The Not-So-Victorian Viscount is set in mid-19th Century Hong Kong, then a British colony.
Forever letting her curiosity get the better of her, our heroine, Angelica Aldrich, has refined her penchant for listening at doors to a high art.

Just out from Virginia, Angelica joins her brother, David, and his wife as the couple await the arrival of their first child.

When David’s business partner, the dashing Viscount St. Alban, returns from a sea voyage, Angelica is surprised to find that the shortage of appropriate housing for foreigners requires the Aldriches and St. Alban to share a house.

Despite Angelica’s shock at St. Alban’s rakish ways and unsuitable female companions, she is quickly charmed by a pup he took in as a foundling.

Angelica gradually develops a friendship with the enigmatic, mysterious St. Alban himself, a man whom so many women find attractive but who seems to have no close friends.

Exotic Hong Kong excites Angelica’s interest. Unlike most of the expatriates, she is fascinated by Chinese culture, considered by the others inappropriate and even dangerous. St. Alban alone encourages her, even persuading one of the mandarins to instruct her in painting.

The expatriate community is startled when the Black Dragon, a mysterious pirate, begins raiding ships in the vicinity.

Will Angelica’s curiosity put her in the path of danger?

Will St. Alban’s secret plot for revenge on an old rival succeed?

Q: Can you tell us a little about your current WIP’s?

A: The alpha males ride again! Hey, I love these guys and they work better in historicals. I’m taking a chain saw to a Victorian novel set in India, hoping to cut it in half. (Even Tolstoy was not as wordy as I can be.) My characters have enough adventures to stock a television series.

I’m also at work on a historical set in Central and South America.
My heroes tend to be Clark-Gable-as-Rhett-Butler playing a new role. That’s the kind of man I adore and my heroines do, too.

Q: How do you come up with your ideas?

A: I daydream. My mind wanders when I drive and I end up in all sorts of unexpected places. I keep a notebook beside me in the car and I have learned to make notes without looking. (I know, I know, this woman is even more dangerous than someone yakking on a cell phone while driving.)

Q: Why do you like writing romance/erotica?

A: Maybe it was growing up in the South, but I always knew my most important degree would be my MRS. Despite coming of age during the feminist revolution and becoming a charter subscriber to MS. magazine (that subscription caused the first fight between me and my husband-to-be), I was always looking for Rhett Butler.

My dolls and my paper dolls were romantics. I kept a diary which I hoped in later years would beguile me into thinking I had a hot romantic life, too. Unfortunately my mother read that and I was always getting lectured about something that (sadly) never happened. I wrote excruciatingly sweet romances in high school that all my friends read. (Surprisingly, they remain friends today.)

When I went off to college, I was more interested in romance than studying (rather the sort of thing my own Student Prince does today).

Gone with the Wind was my favorite book (yes, Rhett came back to Scarlet) and Anna Karenina and Dr. Zhivago were close seconds. (There are no happy endings in real literature.)
I like writing romance because I like reading it. I’m a romantic at heart. In my view, love is an extraordinary force.

I don’t consider my writing “erotica,” but it is indeed more sensual than books were fifty years ago. I sort of think a higher degree of the sensual is the norm for contemporary writing. To omit it in adult literature would almost render the writing archaic in sound. Sensuality is even pretty much a given in the mysteries and spy novels my husband reads.

Having said that, portraying hints of passion and sexuality (not to mention the book covers!) do inhibit some of my attempts at marketing. I grew up in a small town and shedding the notion of “what people think” is not easy. Sometimes I feel like a split personality. I’m very active in my church. Wow, would a “church lady” write stuff like this? Would a docent at a premier American art museum write romance? Would the lady who reviews art exhibitions for Philadelphia’s Main Line weeklies write romance?

LINKS:
Homepage
Blog
E-mail: MarieCarroll@mariecarroll.com
Publisher

Q: Tell us a little about your experience with Linden Bay Romance

A: Working with Linden Bay Romance has been one of the best experiences in my writing career. Barb Perfetti makes certain that each book LBR publishes is “worthy” of four and five star reviews.

I’ve written SF, fantasy, and horror for a number of years, but In Trysts was my first romance. Barb was really patient with her explanations regarding the distinctions between romance, which is character-driven, and my other novels, which tend to be more action-driven. I have to say that I had never been through so many edits as I was with In Trysts. By the time it was released, I could feel confident of its technical, and hopefully content, quality.

Q: What tips/tricks do you use for marketing or promoting your own titles?

A: Blogging, ads, interacting in chatrooms with readers, posting excerpts and book titles on sites which specialize in that genre.

Q: What is one thing you’d want to tell a newer author, just coming into the game?

A: Patience, perseverance, providence: if you’re patient enough, and work long and hard at perfecting your craft, some day you’ll find yourself in the right place at the right time, and you’ll be published.

Q: What types of research do you do for your books?

A: Scientific journals, archeology journals, history journals, and all the databases therein. I’m a student as well, and I’ve done postgrad mycology as well as archeology, with a little virology tossed in. My problem is frequently too much information! Once something interests me, it’s difficult for me to let go.

Q: How do balance family and writing?

A: I get up at 4 a.m., and 3.30 a.m. when the situation calls for it. I have 14-year-old at home, but not so very long ago all four of my kids were still at home. I’d steal time when I could between work and mothering, read parts of my fantasy novels aloud to my children to determine whether they flowed, and basically give myself impossible deadlines that I’d then somehow fulfill.
Since I’m solo parenting, I do the 4 a.m. rising, sandwich in class and projects around writing, and quit everything at 3.45, when my daughter gets home from school. That’s her time, and she needs to feel valued. A lot of the time we may just watch TV, yak, do the DVD thing, or I’ll read aloud to her. She still enjoys that. We may shop or sing, goof around. She understands if I have the occasional urgent project, but I try to manage my time around her. It’s a matter of priorities. Published books may feed my ego and my pocket, but my children fill my heart. They come first.

Q: Why do you like writing romance/erotica?

A: Actually, I don’t! Oh, horrors!

I find it much more fun to write SF or fantasy, with a bit of romance tossed in. I actually find it a bit boring to slant the entire book toward the interaction between two characters. It’s something I haven’t really been able to change about my writing, either. All my books tend to have multiple characters, undertones of horror, and threat coming at the characters every which way.

I think it gets to my romance editors every once in a while – the way my action jumps here and there to tear the characters apart, maybe with another character, a monster, a demon or a mutant. Sigh! These things happen. You never know when you’re about to kiss someone, and he suddenly begins to arc electricity. LOL

Q: What would you do if you weren’t a writer?

A: What I’m already doing, only more of it. I oil paint, plus I’m a full-time postgrad student in archeology. The goal remains the same: finish up and do two-week research stints throughout the Pacific Islands. I’d also paint a heck of a lot more, and maybe begin to market my work again. I have pieces in eight countries, but always worry that I may have lost my “edge”.

LINKS:

http://MelodyKnight.com
http://www.NDHansen-Hill.com
Books at fictionwise
Publisher Author Page
CP Publisher Author Page
MySpace

To be eligible to win one of the many prizes Linden Bay Romance Authors are offering, comment THIS WEEK on their Marketing with Mandy blog spots. Winners will be announced on Sunday!

Here are some of the prizes they’ll be giving away:

Samantha Sommersby will give away a signed print copy of Forbidden: The Awakening .

Nancy Henderson will give away a note/stationary set.

Shiela Stewart will give away a signed print of her book ‘Secrets of the Dead’

Cat Johnson will give away a signed print copy of Trilogy No. 102: Opposites Attract

Peter Brandt is giving away an ebook download of his romantic comedy novel “The Secret Life of Harden Long”

Jane Beckenham is giving away an Ebook download of her book “Hiring Cupid”

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Marketing with Mandy~Linden Bay Romance Publisher Spotlight Part I

Q: Tell us a little about your experience with Linden Bay Romance

A: I can honestly say that LBR ‘discovered’ me. They plucked a short story I sent them out of the submissions box and turned it into the first of my 6 trilogies. That piece was “Taking a Leap” and it is the first story in Trilogy No. 102: Opposites Attract. It’s a romantic comedy about a sexy computer geek who finds himself in an interesting position when he and a coworker have to rewrite the missing sex scenes of an erotic romance novel in a client’s damaged computer.

Q: What tips/tricks do you use for marketing or promoting your own titles?

A: I do the usual stuff—I write a regular column for Wicked Escapes Ezine, participate in chats, maintain a website and a MySpace, design promo items, etc., but it is coming up with unique and creative ideas that really gets me excited. I go all out, head to toe. I really enjoy a theme! At booksignings for my military romances, I dress in camouflage (right down to my camo high-heels), have camouflage-wrapped Hershey kisses and give out book cover postcards with attached sample packs of Gun Oil personal lubricant—a product formulated by actual Marines during Operation Desert Storm. For the release of my first book, which has a high heel shoe on the cover, I found a stiletto cookie cutter and handed out cellophane bags of shoe cookies and bookmarks at the opening day of our town pool.

Recently, my publisher suggested I commission a cat logo to brand myself as an author. I did, from a very talented artist who also happens to be my aunt, and I am thrilled with my new logo. It is a very cute but sexy kitty cat (with green eyes like me) and the tagline I came up with is ‘Cattitude’. I love it and have just spent a ton of time and money on new promo gear with her on it. Check it out at www.cafepress.com/catjohnson. The doggy shirt that says ‘Cattitude’ on it is hysterical! If only my dog would wear it!

Q: What is one thing you’d want to tell a newer author, just coming into the game?

A: Learn as much as you can from other authors early on. Everyone in this business is very willing to share his or her knowledge. We were all beginners once and we are all still learning.

Q: Could you tell us a bit about your latest release?

A: I am very excited about my newest full-length novel with Linden Bay Romance, A Few Good Men. It is the next in my military romance series and revisits some old favorite characters but focuses mainly on an Army Staff Sergeant deployed in Iraq who finds himself unexpectedly and unwillingly falling for his pen pal back in the states.

Q: What types of research do you do for your books?

A: The Internet is an unbelievable resource for multiple reasons. First, and most obvious, research. I can Google anything and find what I need to know. But the World Wide Web also connects me to millions of people around the globe. I research my military books by emailing and instant messaging actual deployed troops on the front lines. There is nothing more amazing than knowing you are communicating in real time with someone seven thousand miles away. It can be frightening when they type in ‘Gotta Go! Getting shelled’ and then sign off. But even with the gray hair worrying about these brave men gives me, I wouldn’t give up that contact for anything and the information, the feeling of really being there right down to the sights, sounds, smells and even tastes they provide, is invaluable in my writing. I wouldn’t have wanted to write A Few Good Men without the input from my military guys.

Q: How do you come up with your ideas?

A: I’ve seen a t-shirt that says ‘Careful or you’ll end up in my novel’. It is so true. I find myself seeing potential for a story everywhere and my friends know their lives are fair game for book fodder. I guess that is the beauty of writing contemporary romance. It is real life but a whole lot more fun.

Q: What would you do if you weren’t a writer?

A: I would be a librarian. I really love books. There is nothing more beautiful than a room full, floor to ceiling, of books.

LINKS:
http:// www.catjohnson.net
http:// www.myspace.com/authorcatjohnson
http://www.lindenbayromance.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LindenBayRomance/

Q: Tell us a little about your experience with Linden Bay Romance.

A: We’ll I’m the newbie on the block. I was introduced to LB via my great friend writer, Melody Knight. I submitted my sensual novel Hiring Cupid. They’re a great company and I found their feedback so positive and inspiring. Certainly great editorship.

Q: What tips/tricks do you use for marketing or promoting your own titles?

A: I’ve just begun doing lots of chats, interviews, writing articles etc. I’ll be doing a live radio promo in late June which is exciting. It’s with a station in the United States and considering I’m way down in New Zealand, it’s a biggie for me.

Q: What is one thing you’d want to tell a newer author, just coming into the game?

A: Don’t give up. Work hard. Grit your teeth when you get rejections, and eat chocolate! But also learn that writing the book is the easy part. Selling, promoting and then turning around and doing it all over again, that’s the hard part. But that is were your determination comes in.

Q: Could you tell us a bit about your latest release?

A: Hiring Cupid is being released 1 July from Linden Bay Romance. It’s a fun, sexy book, where a desperate and dateless Carly Mason must front up with the man she’s being bragging about. A man who adores her and is as sexy as sin. About to admit he doesn’t exist, fate delivers her Marco Valente, a knight in shining armor. The charismatic Italian fits the description of Carly’s fictional Mr. Perfect. A man totally averse to marriage. So who needs cupid? Before she can stop herself, she makes a daring proposal and hires Marco to spend for four long days…and nights with her. Alone on an island, with no way off, Carly finds herself unable to resist Marco’s charms, and gives in to passion—a passion that seems every bit as perfect as the fantasy. But then reality comes knocking. Will their newly discovered feelings survive? Or will Cupid’s arrow miss its mark?

Q: How do you come up with your ideas?

A: My poor brain won’t leave me alone! Very annoying at times, when I’m trying to sleep, which has become a tad elusive since I began writing. But often I find my ideas come as dreams, or when you’re at that half sleep stage, as I drift off, or just before I waken fully. Sometimes they’re full blown stories, dialogue, plot, and definitely my hero too! I remember one weekend, I was in a trance, all weekend, as a whole story, the characters talking to each other etc, full scenes just hit me hour after hour – and no, I don’t wear a straightjacket, though if this keeps up, you never know!

I don’t normally get ideas from reading articles, or the newspaper, it’s more like settings. I.e. My book Always a Bridesmaid came to me as I was in a hotel staying for the RWNZ conference. I imagined a fire and this hunk in boxer shorts which cupids firing arrows on them, knocking on my heroine’s door, telling her to get out. Of course that only ended up about 2 paragraphs in the book, but hey it was the birth of Always A Bridesmaid.

Normally, I will write my ideas down, even if it’s just a back cover blurb. Those often come while I’m driving and at once stage I always carried one of those Dictaphones with me to babble away to, in case I lost the thought – which is always a possibility when there’s too much crowded in on the grey matter!

Q: How do balance family and writing?

A: I write at 5 a.m. and then when the kids are at school, then I write after dinner and usually late into the evening. I’m doing this at 11 pm, and I was up at 5 a.m. – see I said sleep isn’t a requirement!
But I do try and not write during the day in the weekends and keep that for the family, though if there’s a deadline, my family are very understanding. It is easy however, to let it rule your life!

Q: Why do you like writing romance/erotica?

A: I like writing romance because I like a happy ending. I like it be a bit of a tough journey, but ultimately everyone wants to be happy. Don’t we all want the magic of true, everlasting love, a love so deep and real, that really counts? In books that is magic. And attainable. Although you gotta make the hero and heroine suffer a bit. I love the possibility in romance of finding out what makes my characters tick, what is it in their background that makes them act a particular way, or say something.

For example, in my current WIP – A Traitor at Heart – a regency for which M&B have asked for the full manuscript, my heroine is from the slums of London’s East End. She’s never had enough to eat as a child, and there she is in the midst of the high society’s over indulgence. How does it make her feel seeing all that food?

I write romance because it can cover so many genres. My first two books are time travel romances, the next two contemporary, so love covers every style of book and gives authors a great choice.

LINKS:
Website
Newsletter
Blog

Publishers www.lindenbayromance.com
www.trebleheartbooks.com

To be eligible to win one of the many prizes Linden Bay Romance Authors are offering, comment THIS WEEK on their Marketing with Mandy blog spots. Winners will be announced on Sunday!

Here are some of the prizes they’ll be giving away:

Samantha Sommersby will give away a signed print copy of Forbidden: The Awakening .

Nancy Henderson will give away a note/stationary set.

Shiela Stewart will give away a signed print of her book ‘Secrets of the Dead’

Cat Johnson will give away a signed print copy of Trilogy No. 102: Opposites Attract

Peter Brandt is giving away an ebook download of his romantic comedy novel “The Secret Life of Harden Long”

Jane Beckenham is giving away an Ebook download of her book “Hiring Cupid”

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Linden Bay Romance Publisher Spotlight

Next week, Linden Bay Romance authors and publisher will be joining us on Marketing with Mandy!

Mon
Cat Johnson
Jane Beckenham

Tues
Marie Carroll
Melody Knight

Wed
Nancy Henderson
Peter A. Brandt

Thurs
Samantha Sommersby
Shiela Stewart

Fri
Publisher Lori James answers questions on Linden Bay Romance’s marketing tips and tricks.

To be eligible to win one of the many prizes Linden Bay Romance Authors are offering, comment THIS WEEK (Mon-Fri) on their Marketing with Mandy blog spots. Winners will be announced on Sunday!

Here are some of the prizes they’ll be giving away:

Samantha Sommersby will give away a signed print copy of Forbidden: The Awakening .

Nancy Henderson will give away a note/stationary set.

Shiela Stewart will give away a signed print of her book ‘Secrets of the Dead’

Cat Johnson will give away a signed print copy of Trilogy No. 102: Opposites Attract

Peter Brandt is giving away an ebook download of his romantic comedy novel “The Secret Life of Harden Long”

Jane Beckenham is giving away an Ebook download of her book “Hiring Cupid”

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Interview at Lust Bites

Hi everyone… Deanna Ashford (Black Lace Author who can pen the hell out of a sex scene) has interviewed me for the Lust Bites Blog. If you get a sec, stop by and say hi! I’d love to have ya!

LUST BITES BLOG

I’ll be selecting a winner from the people who comment there today. Winner will get a PDF download of Red Light Specialists!

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Thanks Kally Jo Surbeck

Kally Jo Surbeck is one of the sweetest authors out there! She really is. She knew that Michelle Pillow and myself were quoted/mentioned in an article in Writer’s Digest so she offered to send me her issue of the magazine.

Isn’t that the sweetest thing!!!

Thank you, Kally Jo!

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Guest Blogging

At Jacquelyn Frank’s (author of Nightwalker series) blog today

If you get a chance, stop by and chat with me.

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Nekkie Man Ass Cover

View to a Kill by Mandy M. Roth

A trained assassin…a man even the deadliest of warriors fear. To cross him is foolish. To steal his heart is pure madness.

OMG… like how I covered nekkie man ass to be able to put it up in other places on the web?

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Warning: This book contains hot, explicit sex and violence explained with contemporary, graphic language.

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View to a Kill

Just Released!

View to a Kill by Mandy M. Roth

A trained assassin…a man even the deadliest of warriors fear. To cross him is foolish. To steal his heart is pure madness.

Book two in King of Prey series.

Sachin, head advisor to the king of the Accipitridae realm, has been forced to put his trips to Earth on hold. He’s not been honest with himself or King Kabril about his need to visit the primitive planet. The king thinks him to be a womanizer, out to bed as many human females as possible.

In truth, a woman he should have been able to woo with little to no effort-his mate-has found someone else to fill that void in her life. She wasn’t supposed to be on Earth. She wasn’t supposed to be human. And she sure the hell wasn’t supposed to agree to marry another man while Sachin was away.

Sachin must make a choice, give up the one woman he knows to be his true mate and let her live in ignorant bliss of what walks among her people, or fight for what’s his, taking it at all costs. A trained assassin…a man even the deadliest of warriors fear. To cross him is foolish. To steal his heart is pure madness.

Warning: This book contains hot, explicit sex and violence explained with contemporary, graphic language.

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Erotic Romance Article

I googled myself. There. I admit it. I did it. Damn happy I did too because I came across this article that was a fabulous write up about how erotic romance is here to stay.

Link to article

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When?
TODAY (July 25)—ALL DAY!

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What authors will be there?

Amber Dayne
Ann Cory
Ashleigh Raine
Buffi BeCraft-Woodall
Cassandra Curtis
Catherine Stang
Dahlia Rose
Dani Harper
Destiny Blaine
Edita A. Petrick
Eliza Gayle
Erin Gordon
Julia Templeton
Kate Hill
Lauren Dane
Liadan Brodie
Mandy M. Roth
Marcia James
Marie Harte
Maya Banks
Megan Rose
Melani Blazer
Michelle M Pillow
Michelle M Pillow
Morgan Ashbury
Portia Da Costa
Rose Marie Wolf
Sabrina Luna
Sapphire Phelan
Skylar Sinclair
Tilly Greene

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