Category Archives: Endorsements

PROMO ~ Daron’s Guitar Chronicles #7 by Cecilia Tan

Daron's Guitar Chronicles: Volume Seven (Daron's Guitar Chronicles, #7)
DARON’S GUITAR CHRONICLES #7
Cecilia Tan

Release Date: August 4, 2015

Sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Coming out and coming of age in the days of AIDS, MTV, Reaganomics, and Just Say No.
Daron Marks is a young guitar player with a dream, make it big like the guys he grew up idolizing in New Jersey–or at least escape his dysfunctional family. He makes it as far as music school in Rhode Island, and the rock clubs of Boston beckon him. But it’s hard to succeed from the closet.
A story of how finding one’s self is key to finding love, and loving one’s self is key to loving another.

BLURB ~ #7

When last we saw guitar prodigy Daron Marks, he was on a beach in Australia on the very last day of 1989. A new decade has dawned and Daron has little choice but to embrace change in the face of Ziggy going AWOL and poor record sales. Daron embarks on a journey of artistic growth, studying more styles of guitar and music, a journey that takes him from Virginia to Spain to New York City.

But while he prepares for whatever may come next in his career, is Daron prepared for his inevitable reunion with Ziggy? Ziggy is back and he’s got a plan.

Volume 7 of Daron’s Guitar Chronicles collects chapters 505 through 584 from the popular web serial by Cecilia Tan. Daron’s Guitar Chronicles won the Rose & Bay Award for Best Crowdfunded Fiction in 2010

“For me, Daron is one of those rare fictional characters that I have a hard time believing does not actually exist on the physical plane. He is just too real. Part of it is that Daron is only a couple of years older than me and the way the 80s are brought to life here reminds me very much of my own coming of age: the musical references, the language, the AIDS scare, the technology, the hair… Most of all, though, it is the fact that Daron is an extremely well written character. He grows and changes and engages.” —Reviews by Jessewave

Buy links:

About Author

Cecilia Tan is a writer, editor, and sexuality activist. She is the author of Slow Surrender, The Prince’s Boy, Mind Games, The Hot Streak, White Flames, Edge Plays, Black Feathers, The Velderet, and Telepaths Don’t Need Safewords, as well as the Magic University series of paranormal erotic romances. She has the distinction of being perhaps the only writer to have erotic fiction published in both Penthouse and Ms. magazines, as well as in scores of other magazines and anthologies including Asimov’s, Best American Erotica, and Nerve. She is the founder and editor of Circlet Press, publishers of erotic science fiction and fantasy, the founder and creator of the Fetish Fair Fleamarket ™, and was inducted into the Saints & Sinners Hall of Fame for GLBT writers in 2010.

Website:
Facebook:
Twitter:
Goodreads:

Daron’s Series

Daron’s Guitar Chronicles #1:

Buy Links:

(Free!)

Daron #2:

Daron's Guitar Chronicles: Volume Two (Daron's Guitar Chronicles, #2)

Buy Links:

Posted in Authors & Books, Blurb, Endorsements, Promo

Leave a comment

Tags: @ceciliatan

PROMO TOUR ~ The Cougarette Series by Eliza David

Aug 26

Posted by Book Loving Pixies

Welcome to the world of the cougar, where women over forty are the new twenty!
Eliza David has coined her books as being “Cougar Lit,” chick lit for the maturing female crowd. But anyone can enjoy these fun, sexy, entertaining reads and aspire to being a cougar when they get older, or at least feeling as hot as one, am I right?! Let’s hear what some readers have to say about this series.

The first pages start your addiction to our next female superstar, Ms. Cee Cee Banks.
~A. Lambertz, Amazon Reviewer

Fantastic. Energetic. Entertaining. Keeps you wanting more. ~TJ, Amazon Reviewer

The Cougarette is a very upbeat, charming, witty, cleverly written book jam packed with unexpected twists and turns.
~Author Kaden Matthews

The story gives women over 40 the hope that they can attract younger men!
~Amazon Reviewer

The Cougarette
Released January 2015
Free on Amazon & Smashwords!

Synopsis:

After her husband of twenty years falls in love with someone else, PR exec Cecelia ‘CeeCee’ Banks is forced to reinvent her life post-divorce. Between career shakeups, raising a teenage son and the news that her ex plans to remarry soon, CeeCee is juggling her new reality with grace, laughter and a little more alcohol than usual.

CeeCee catches one of her life’s sexiest curveballs in the form of Jay Weston. A promising artist, Jay brings out a passion in CeeCee that she hasn’t felt in years. He is everything her ex wasn’t: ambitious, sensual, exciting….and twenty-five.

CeeCee is tested the day a click of a paparazzo’s camera brings her professional and personal lives into a tabloid tailspin. After ZMT officially coins her as ‘The Cougarette’, CeeCee becomes a media sensation overnight. Her reputation is in shambles, her career is thrown into limbo and her own hip-hop star client betrays her in a hit song!

Worst of all is the damage it has done to her relationship with Jay, whose mysterious backstory finds itself entangled in CeeCee’s drama in a way neither of them ever could have imagined.

With the help of her no-nonsense BFF/manager/unpaid life coach Laney, CeeCee attempts to dig herself out of this self-created chaos and maintain at least a shred of dignity. Will she be able to keep her life running smoothly, career and love life intact?

Maybe – if she could just stop waking up in random hotel rooms.

Cougarette in the Country
Released February 2015
Purchase on Amazon & Smashwords!

Synopsis:

CeeCee Banks is going down – South, that is.
While her budding career at Platinum Noize is booming, CeeCee’s relationship with the gorgeous Jay Weston is bombing. When Jay asks her to relocate to New York with him, CeeCee uses her time in Atlanta managing Billy BadAss’s latest event to get a fresh perspective before she makes a decision. However, with trying to tame the re-emergence of Billy’s reckless behavior, being offered a top-brass promotion from the Atlanta office and reuniting with her first love in the nearby country town of Pigcreek, CeeCee and her future with Jay become shaky.
With glimpses of a teenage CeeCee, we’ll find out if grownup CeeCee decides to come back to the country for an old love and a new opportunity…or move to New York City for a future with Jay.

Cougarette Takes Manhattan
Release Date
Purchase on Amazon & Smashwords!

Synopsis:

CeeCee Banks arrives in Manhattan with a brand new job and a brand new engagement ring…but old habits die hard.

As she and her fiancé Jay Weston become busy with their careers, they are finding less and less time with each other. Their once-hot and heavy love life comes down to scheduled sex days. In addition to planning a New York-style wedding and learning to work with her abrasive boss Bryce Costas, CeeCee has to also contend with Felicity Hunter as her client again and tolerate Billy BadAss’s new toxic girlfriend, Deja Renee Ramirez.

When Bryce assigns Felicity to a modeling project at Graphix NYC, it puts her in direct contact with Jay. Between Jay’s sudden disinterest in the wedding and the challenge of regaining intimacy with him, CeeCee is green with envy. Will the dwindling passion between CeeCee and Jay reignite a spark between him and Felicity?

Cougarette On Top
Released June 2015
Purchase on Amazon & Smashwords!

Synopsis:

Cecelia Nicole Banks is finally on top….which no doubt means she’s about to hit rock bottom.

A year has passed since CeeCee’s emotional breakup from Jay Weston. Still going strong with her billionaire boss/boyfriend Bryce Costas, CeeCee spends all of her time with him – making love in the air and making money in the boardroom. After taking on some of Bryce’s traits, CeeCee has become a literal lean, mean, money-making machine…but is she happy?

CeeCee soon finds that million-dollar deals aren’t enough to protect her when tragedy strikes and what she needs most is love – not lucrative ventures. Instead of more joy, CeeCee is getting more pain: a meddling father with unwarranted advice, a magazine editor determined to paint CeeCee as someone who slept her way to the top and a new project that forces her to work one-on-one with Jay (much to Bryce’s calm and cool chagrin!).

When an unexpected life change threatens her relationship with Bryce, will CeeCee choose a luxurious jet-set life with the man she loves or a do-over life with someone that needs her love?

Girls Night In: A Collection of Short Stories based on the Cougarette
Releases August 28th!
Preorder on Amazon!

Synopsis:

Ladies don’t kiss and tell…but who’s talking about kissing?

When CeeCee gathers Laney, Trina, and Sheila in her living room on a cold Valentine’s Day evening, things heat up quickly. With the help of unlimited wine and plenty of laughs, the ladies of The Cougarette Series reveal all about their love lives in titillating first-person accounts. Secrets will be revealed and sexy tales will be told about:

• An affair with a neighbor,
• The seduction of a barely legal production assistant,
• A visit to a private club for exclusive clientele,
• A vacation that pits faith against lust,
• And a late-night visitor cloaked in lies

BONUS: At the end of these five sensual stories will be the first chapter of the fifth book in The Cougarette Series, The Cougarette’s Secret. So, grab a glass of wine and join CeeCee and Company for a wild ride on a hot night in!

Posted in Authors & Books, Blitz, Blurb, Endorsements, Promo, Teaser

Leave a comment

Tags: @elizadwrites

BLOG TOUR ~ Beautiful Imperfection by Hayley Oakes

Aug 25

Posted by Book Loving Pixies

Book: Beautiful Imperfection
Author: Hayley Oakes

Genre: Contemporary Romance
Hosted By:Francessca’s Romance Reviews

photo Beautiful Imperfection ebook cover_zpstxa2tjiw.jpg

Synopsis

Failure wasn’t what Cassidy Sinclair expected when she got married … but that’s exactly what she got.

Instead of getting her happy ever after she is struggling to adjust to living back with her unconventional parents and the chatter of small town gossip.

Desi Cardwell was never known for his interpersonal skills and being back in small town Tolvey, sending the rumour mill into overdrive, was not what he wanted for himself.

Both forced home after a decade away, Cassidy and Desi begin an unlikely alliance when she agrees to train with him at his newly opened gym.

Desi is mysterious, guarded and borderline rude but what he lacks in charm he more than makes up for with his hard body and devilish good looks.

Desi does not need anything to keep him in Tolvey longer than necessary.

Cassidy needs something mind-numbing to help her forget her ex.

Both beautifully broken can they find in each other a light in the dark?

Add To Goodreads

Purchase Links

Amazon UK
Amazon USA

What others are saying

Hayley Oakes again writes a beautiful story with characters that you’ll find are easily loved even with all of their dark spots. I highly recommend this to everyone! ~ Amazon USA review

The twists and turns along the way made sure this wasn’t your run of the mill romance novel. Highly recommended. ~ Amazon UK Review

You put these two together and they fit perfectly – they’re two beautiful persons just a little broke. Add in an average new age family including a wacky sibling, some fun friends and your set for a great story and I have to say loved callain!
Beautiful writing and a story that will keep you turning pages ❤ ~ Goodreads Review

It tugged at my heartstrings, made me smile, made angry and made me cry. A enjoyable roller coaster read – just simply amazing! Highly recommended.~ Amazon UK Review

About The Author

Hayley Oakes is a wife to a Manchester United fan and a mother to a young daughter both require patience and a sense of humour. She enjoys reading angst ridden romance and writing stories that she would love to read. She loves post-apocalyptic movies, TV and anything 80’s.

Stalkers Links

Facebook
Twitter
Goodreads

Posted in Authors & Books, Blitz, Blurb, Endorsements, New Releases, Spotlight / Blog Tour, Teaser

Leave a comment

Tags: @Francesscas_rr, @hoakesauthor

COVER REVEAL ~ Fading Memories by A.M. Willard

Aug 23

Posted by Book Loving Pixies

Fading Memories

by A.M. Willard

Cover Reveal

Contemporary Inspirational Romance

Goodreads | Amazon

Synopsis

Isabel Nichols’s life changed in more ways than one through the years.
As a young child, she experienced a loss that devastated her. It wasn’t until she was an adult that the universe around her shattered. In a twenty-four-hour time frame, she lost what she’d thought was her world. What followed was a year of mourning, a year of grieving, a year of darkness. Now, there’s one man who can show her the light.

Dakota Jackson left his life behind on a whim, moving to a beach cottage away from the big city where he grew up. He sees through Izzie’s clouds as he gets to know her, with the drive to be everything that she’s ever needed. The only problem is, Dakota holds the key to a secret that could ruin both of their hopes and dreams.

Passion isn’t always enough to heal a broken heart; love isn’t always enough to guide you through the darkness.

This is about two souls that were meant to be together from the day they were born. Two people who have to figure out a way to look past the memories. It’s the now; it’s living your life as you’re meant to, loving the one your heart craves. It’s about letting go of the grieving, learning to be who you are, and accepting life for what it is.

Can love cure all things despite its hardships?

Endorsements

“A.M. Willard writes a sweet, yet gripping romance, full of angst, promise, and hope.
Fading Memories will restore your faith in love.” Author Silla Webb.

“A.M. Willard has the combination to unlock your heart. This is a elegantly written
book and an emotional journey that I highly recommend reading.” Author Addison Kline.

“Lives entwined as intricately as a lovers’ knot, Dakota balances his need to get closer to Izzie with her need for distance in a battle of wills where love and acceptance is the ultimate prize.” Author Libby Austin.

Teasers

Author Bio

A.M. Willard is a true believer of soul mates, and happy ever afters. She enjoys reading, sailing, and of course writing contemporary romance with some saucy scenes. Releasing her first novella of the One Night Series on April 12, 2014 has sent her on a new journey in life. A.M.’s passion for writing started at a young age, but with the love and support from her husband of eighteen years pushed her to follow her dreams. Once she hit that first publish button, she hasn’t looked back.

Publications available from A.M. Willard include the Chances Series, Love on the Screen, and everyone’s favorite, the One Night Series. She’s also had an article published in the Writer’s Monthly Review Magazine and was just accepted into the Romance Writers of America organization in May of 2015.

A.M. Willard was born and raised in the Panhandle of Florida, but resides in Savannah GA with her husband, son, two cats, one rotten dog, and her six chickens. Yes, we said chickens…

You can connect with A.M. Willard on her website at http://www.amwillard.com or subscribe to her newsletter for the latest releases, teasers, and sale alerts: