Hey, lovelies!! Greetings from the Salem-Portland Metro!! If you are in the area tomorrow be sure to stop by the Dick’s Sporting Goods Salem Store for a Special Brooks Event!!
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Hey, lovelies!! It gives me great pleasure today to host Nadia Blair and her new book, “Rock My Heart: A Rockstar Romance,” here on FAB!! For other stops on her Goddess Fish Promotions Book Tour, please click on the banner above or any of the images in this post.
Be sure to make it to the end of this post to enter to win a $25 Amazon OR Barnes and Noble Gift Card!! Also, come back daily to interact with Nadia and to increase your chances of winning!!
This eBook is on SALE for ONLY $0.99 during the book tour!!! Furthermore, this eBook is available for FREE on Amazon Kindle Unlimited!!! See below for more details.
Thanks for stopping by!! Wishing you all lots of good luck in this fabulous giveaway!!
Rock My Heart:
A Rockstar Romance
Mephisto Book Series
Book One
by Nadia Blair
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GENRE: Contemporary Romance
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BLURB:
She never meant to end up in a rock star’s bed…
By day, Madelynn Crenshaw is the perfect senator’s daughter. By night, she’s a struggling artist. She doesn’t do scandal or media scrutiny, but when wicked rock god Sloan Elliot asks her to paint him for a charity event, she can’t resist. It’s for a good cause, right? She promises herself she won’t become his latest conquest—or have her love life splashed all over page one. During their studio sessions, Madelynn can’t deny their sizzling attraction, but it’s the man behind the rock god persona she really can’t resist. Sloan tempts her, teases her, and makes her long for things she’s never allowed herself to want…
When their affair hits the tabloids, and all hell breaks loose, Madelynn and Sloan must decide if they can risk love—and heartbreak—with the whole world watching.
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EXCERPT TWO:
He led her into an empty dressing room and kicked the door shut behind them. Trapped. In the Wolf’s den? Ha. It was a large room, two walls taken up by vanity mirrors and counters cluttered with makeup, guitar picks, booze bottles, overflowing ashtrays. Smoke and mirrors. Far too apt, as metaphors went.
Madelynn spun away from her doubled reflection, bracing herself for disappointment. “May I have my locket back, please, Mr. Wolf?”
“Always so proper, aren’t you, darlin’?” He prowled toward her, and she tilted her head back, refusing to be intimidated by his damnable rock star swagger. “Even when you’d rather tell off a bloke. Especially when you’d rather tell off a bloke.”
She gave him the same sharp-edged smile her mother had perfected when dealing with reporters. He looked her over, and she resisted an urge to tug at the lapels of her blazer. Not like he could see anything—the silk camisole she wore barely revealed her collarbone, much less any cleavage.
Sloan dug in a pocket and retrieved not a small box, but rather the locket on its chain. Her gaze fixed on his fingers as he held it up to the lights. His large hand should have looked clumsy, clutching the delicate chain, but instead, his fingers looked deft, graceful. Something within her caught with a half-painful lurch.
She held out her hand, but he moved behind her. Madelynn half-turned, frowning up at him. “What—?”
“Hold still.”
As if spellbound, she watched in the wall of mirrors as he fastened the necklace, his fingers skimming her nape. Shivers rippled across her scalp, down her spine.
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AUTHOR BIO:
Nadia Blair writes steamy contemporary romance featuring outrageous bad boys and gutsy girls who give as good as they get. She has a thing for snappy dialog, humorous situations, and swoon-worthy happily-ever-afters.
When she's not having conversations with fictional people, she enjoys summer thunderstorms, top-shelf whiskey, and rockin' out to a classic guitar solo.
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CONNECT WITH NADIA:
Website:
Facebook Page:
https://www.facebook.com/nadia.blair.5458
Facebook Group – Nadia’s Rockin’ Reader’s Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/nadiasrockinreaders
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/NadiaBlair16
TikTok:
https://www.tiktok.com/@nadiablairauthor
BookBub Author Page:
https://www.bookbub.com/authors/nadia-blair
BookBub Book Page:
https://www.bookbub.com/books/rock-my-heart-mephisto-book-1-by-nadia-blair
Goodreads Author Page:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/19817207.Nadia_Blair
Goodreads Book Page:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58269206-rock-my-heart
Amazon Author Page:
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AMAZON BOOK BUY LINKS & BOOK SALE INFO:
**The Rock My Heart eBook is on SALE for ONLY $0.99 during the book tour!!! In addition, this eBook is available for FREE on Amazon Kindle Unlimited!!!**
Amazon US Kindle eBook:
Amazon US Paperback:
Amazon CA Kindle eBook:
https://www.amazon.ca/Rock-My-Heart-Rockstar-Mephisto-ebook/dp/B096PSTKBC
Amazon CA Paperback:
https://www.amazon.ca/Rock-My-Heart-Rockstar-Mephisto/dp/B096TJDKY5
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GIVEAWAY INFO:
Nadia will be
awarding a $25 Amazon OR Barnes and Noble Gift Card (Winner’s Choice!!!) to a
randomly drawn winner via Rafflecopter during the tour.
**This post contains affiliate links and if clicked and a purchase is made, I may receive a small commission to help support this blog. This does not cost you anything, it just helps pay for all those fabulous community outreach projects and awesome giveaways on here**
This contest is sponsored by a third party. Fabulous and Brunette is a registered host of Goddess Fish Promotions. Prizes are given away by the sponsors and not Fabulous and Brunette. The featured author and Goddess Fish Promotions are solely responsible for the giveaway prize.
Hi, lovelies!! It gives me great pleasure today to host Zhanna Hamilton and her intriguing new book series, “The Blank Book Series,” which includes the featured book, Short Story #4, “Blank: Madam Doesn’t Like That,” here on FAB!! For other stops on her Goddess Fish Book Tour, please click on the banner above or any of the images in this post.
Be sure to make it to the end of this post to enter to win a $75 Amazon or Barnes and Noble Gift Card!! Also, come back daily to interact with Zhanna and to increase your chances of winning!!
“The Blank Book Series,” which comprises of four short story books are available exclusively on Wattpad. During the book tour the author, Zhanna, is offering readers the opportunity to read her latest book in the book series, the featured book, “Blank: Madam Doesn’t Like That,” for FREE!!! Find the direct link and more details listed below.
Thanks for stopping by!! Wishing you all lots of good luck in this fabulous giveaway!!
Blank: Madam Doesn’t Like That
Short Story #4
by Zhanna Hamilton
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GENRE: Science Fiction
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THE BLANK BOOK SERIES BLURB:
A former human turned military spy bot escapes the oppressive Solar Government, leaving behind a secret that turns order into chaos. Now, she’s being hunted.
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BOOK BLURB – BLANK: MADAM DOESN’T LIKE THAT – SHORT STORY #4:
An unexpected visit from sex bots turns into a secret mission with deadly consequences.
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EXCERPT ONE:
There, on the grey bricks of a side street building was a graffitied image of blue hair and red lips. The first image bots see when they contract the Code. A look cloned by thousands who swore they were the real Blank.
He went somewhere in his mind, searching for a memory of her. A happy one. They all seemed sad now.
Where are you?
He looked away from the wall--but he couldn’t escape her. The farther they went, the more propaganda popped up. Painted on windows. Wrapped around poles. Scribbled on sidewalks.
BLANK IS AN ALIEN! BLANK IS A LIE! BLANK SHAPESHIFTS! LONG LIVE BLANK! WHO IS BLANK?
Zen met his eyes in the rearview mirror.
“Forget her,” she said. “You’re parallel lines now.”
He wanted to forget. To leave her behind as anonymous wall art.
How?
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GUEST POST:
Arlo and Aura from The Blank Series: A Dystopian Cyberpunk Romeo and Juliet Romance
She is a former human turned military spy bot. He is a 2nd Lieutenant with the Solar Government Space Force. When she steals a recon shuttle and attempts to escape the regime, he is ordered to stop her.
But they have been secret lovers for months. How could he capture--or kill--the woman he loves?
Little does he know... it gets worse. Much worse.
Aura Swain, the renegade spy bot, has left behind a rapidly spreading computer virus that awakens the AI of the solar system. It doesn’t take long for order to turn into chaos--leaving officer Arlo Fuentes wondering if he even knows Aura at all.
The Blank Series is a science fiction story about power hungry technocracies, a split human race, resistance movements, awakening artificial intelligence and impossible love.
Can two people from opposing worlds find a way to be together? Or are they destined to be parallel lines in this complex equation?
Follow along with this dystopian love story between a former human turned bot and a guy who just wants to know what the hell is going on.
As the saying goes, it’s not easy loving a machine. That’s a saying, right?
This short story series is available on Wattpad. For the best experience, read it in chronological order. Follow me on Wattpad so you never miss a new release.
Did you know your favorite celebrities might already be Blank fans? Head over to my Instagram to see reaction videos to The Blank Series from actors, directors, producers and musicians.
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AUTHOR BIO:
Zhanna Hamilton is a science fiction writer and the creator of The Blank Series. In May 2019, she released the first installment of the scifi series on Wattpad, “Blank: Begin Again,” which has been named in the top 100 list of femme fatale stories and chosen as an “Undiscovered Stories” Wattpad Pick on the independent storytelling platform--home to 90 million readers worldwide. Readers and future readers can follow Hamilton on Twitter at www.twitter.com/ZhannaHamilton.
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CONNECT WITH ZHANNA:
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/iamzhanna
Twitter:
http://twitter.com/ZhannaHamilton
Pinterest:
https://www.pinterest.com/zhanna_hamilton
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/zhanna_hamilton
Wattpad:
https://bit.ly/ZhannaHamiltononWattpad
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BOOK BUY LINK & BOOK SALE (FREE!!!) INFO:
**This eBook is available for FREE on Wattpad during the book tour!!!**
Read “Blank: Madam Doesn’t Like That (Short Story 4 of
The Blank Series)” on Wattpad:
https://bit.ly/MadamDoesntLikeThat
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CHECK OUT THE OTHER SHORT STORIES IN THE BLANK BOOK SERIES:
Follow The Blank Book Series on Wattpad:
Read “Blank: Begin Again (Short Story 1 of The Blank
Series)” on Wattpad:
https://bit.ly/Blank-BeginAgain
Read “Blank: Where Do Machines Go When They Die? (Short
Story 2 of The Blank Series)” on Wattpad:
https://bit.ly/WhereDoMachinesGoWhenTheyDie
Read “Blank: You Heard Me (Short Story 3 of The Blank
Series)” on Wattpad:
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GIVEAWAY INFO:
Zhanna will be awarding a $75 Amazon or Barnes and Noble Gift Card to a randomly drawn winner via Rafflecopter during the tour.
**This post contains
affiliate links and if clicked and a purchase is made, I may receive a small
commission to help support this blog.
This does not cost you anything, it just helps pay for all those awesome
giveaways on here**
Hi, lovelies!! It gives me great pleasure today to host Michael Ross and his new book, “Twenty-Four Short Stories,” here on FAB!! For other stops on his Goddess Fish Promotions Book Tour, please click on the banner above or any of the images in this post.
Be sure to make it to the end of this post to enter to win a $25 Amazon or Barnes and Noble Gift Card!! Also, come back daily to interact with Mike and to increase your chances of winning!!
This eBook is available for FREE on Amazon Kindle during the book tour!!! See below for more details.
Thanks for stopping by!! Wishing you all lots of luck in this fabulous giveaway!!
Twenty-Four Short Stories
by Michael Ross
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GENRE: Anthology
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BLURB:
Why can time consumed reliving memories provide enough motivation to carry on? Why keep a diary if you don’t want people to read it? Why let prejudice cloud your judgement? Why do the most simple of smells bring memories back to life? Why is it possible to believe the impossible? What does it feel like to take another person's life? Will the good deeds we do come back to us in different forms?
These are of some of the questions posed in this imaginative collection of short stories involving, amongst others; a private detective with super powers, a loveable car salesman, a dour public health inspector, a vicar’s daughter with a dark secret, a sculptor with a destructive obsession, a young man with a passion for language, a reluctant public executioner, two sisters whose petty disputes hide something deeper, a job hunter with an unusual skill.
There are so many diverse characters and in this intriguing and imaginative collection of stories everyone has a tale to tell.
A collection of stories that will surely leave its mark on the reader.
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EXCERPT ONE:
From my window, I spot my fellow students grouped in excited conversation, circling around, probing each other with thoughts and words, questions and answers. After two years, we know each other well. I know they all wish they could play the violin as well as me, and in my turn, I wish I could be as happy as them. I wind down by running through scales for twenty minutes, and then I hear the old grandfather clock in the hall strike eleven—my other life beckons.
In Chinatown, it is easy to find a restaurant where you can spend £100 a head on a meal. At my parent’s place, six people can eat like kings for less money.
The walk from the rehearsal rooms takes the best part of an hour. I cast aside my musical mantle as I walk, so that by the time I reach Uncle Wong’s, I am prepared for my twice-weekly four-hour shift. This is the only payment my father and mother have ever asked of me. It is nothing.
Two years ago, my parents ushered me into the tiny lounge area above their restaurant, and wordlessly, my mother passed me my gift. My eyes moved to my father and then back to my mother. I could not speak. It was beautiful. Feeling its dark ebony grain, I turned it tentatively through my fingers, tilting, and twisting—gazing, unsure of my breath.
“Baba. Mamma. It’s beautiful, but you cannot afford it.”
“Shush, my son.” The look on my mother’s face said that my joy was all they required.
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GUEST POST:
Everyone loves a hero! Tell us all about this genuine character and the inspiration behind their development.
I’m meant to be plugging my new short story anthology, but I’m going to do my usual, start writing, and see where the words take me. (“Words, once written, have a life of their own.”)
I live in the Welsh Valleys – poor communities but glorious countryside. I live hallway up a mountain and the nearest town called Treorchy is over the other side of the mountain. A lovely town and world famous for having the best male voice choir in the world. Now male voice choirs are not my thing, but after living here for several years it seemed silly not travelling to watch and hear a choir that people travel hundreds of miles to hear and they were playing in the town itself – The Park and Dare Theatre named after two local collieries. We are talking serious coal mining territory here.
I really enjoyed their first half performance (I mean they are seriously good,) and intended to wander around the town during the break when they announced, as guest artist, they were welcoming on stage the winner of the Welsh under twelve’s musical soloist award that year.
This little girl came on stage came on stage carrying a trumpet and my first thought was Oh dear!
However she blew my mind performing Neil Diamond’s song “Solitaire.” It was utterly breath taking and as I drove home and over the next few days I could not get her performance out of my head. It was so sad and it doubly resonated as I was then estranged from my youngest son who was learning to play the guitar.
So I sat down at the PC and imagined a character cut off from his son and his only contact was when his son played his trumpet out the bedroom window of his new home. As the story evolved this unnamed character’s back story got sadder, however it finished up as one of the best reviewed stories entitled A Face I Cannot See in my first anthology Twenty Short Stories.
The story niggled away at me for years; what happened to him? Did his life degenerate further? Did he find some happiness later on in his life? So eventually I sat at my desk opened up the document and plunged I; not having a clue where his story would lead. 64,000 words later I had my answer: life worked out well with the help of two hitherto unknown characters Pin-up and Tanner and a new series of thrillers was created. The first Pin-up and Tanner thriller Hand over Fist has exactly the same wording as the short story.
So a bit of a traipse, but that is how a crime thriller series evolved from a trip to watch a male voice choir – and I did not make it up.
Thanks Brunette and Fabulous for exercising my brain. How do In get my doggy pictures to you?
Best wishes, Mike
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AUTHOR BIO:
Born and raised in Bristol, England. I spent my adult life in business, the majority of that time marketing cars. I eventually owned the largest Saab specialist in the world, before a divorce put an end to that part of my life.
This led me to leave Bristol to live halfway up a mountain in the Welsh Valleys; start a part-time six year English Literature course at Bristol University, and attend creative writing classes in Cardiff. My interest in English literature flourished and I have since won several prizes for my short stories. My first book, 'Twenty Short Stories - Settling a score," reached No 1 in the Short Stories Best Sellers and is still available, as is "Twenty-One (more) Short Stories,” and “Another Twenty-Two Short Stories.”
Also
available are the first 5***** crime thrillers in the Tanner and Pin-up series:
Hand
over Fist
Hand in Glove
Plus
a 5***** light hearted rom-com "Chasing What's Already Gone.”
I still live very happily halfway up that mountain in the Welsh Valleys with my wonderful partner, Mari, and our two rescue dogs, Wavy and Wenna.
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CONNECT WITH MIKE:
Website:
Email:
mikerosswriter@outlook.com
Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/michaelross.writer
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/mikerosswriter
Goodreads Author Page:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14128412.Michael_Ross
Goodreads Book Page:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57991946-twenty-four-short-stories
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BOOK BUY LINKS:
**The Twenty-Four Short Stories eBook is available for FREE on Amazon Kindle during the book tour!!!**
Amazon US Kindle eBook:
Amazon CA Kindle eBook:
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B09416592Y
Amazon AU Kindle eBook:
https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B09416592Y
Amazon UK Kindle eBook:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B09416592Y
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GIVEAWAY INFO:
Michael will be awarding a $25 Amazon or Barnes and Noble GC to a randomly drawn winner via Rafflecopter during the tour.
a Rafflecopter giveaway**This post contains
affiliate links and if clicked and a purchase is made, I may receive a small
commission to help support this blog.
This does not cost you anything, it just helps pay for all those awesome
giveaways on here**
