AWESOME AUTHOR DARIEL RAYE IS BACK

WELL, NOT ONLY AM I BACK AFTER A LONG AND DAUNTING MOVE, BUT MY FRIEND AND FELLOW AUTHOR DARIEL RAYE IS BACK ON AWESOME AUTHOR! SO PLEASE WELCOME HER. ........"Hi, I’m Dariel Raye. I write paranormal romance, and love dark paranormal romance and fantasy series so much I decided to dedicate MY BLOG to them. I’ll post my books, reviews, invite guests, and tell you about my WIPs and TBR list. So, enter a world where weres, shifters, vampires, and angels capture your heart…"



  
 

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Jordan Taylor is a feisty, take charge, Rubinesque beauty with a tough façade, but after a string of lackluster relationships, her dream of a man who truly loves and appreciates her strength seems impossible…Until she meets Canaan, the man her fiancé claims is his best friend! Instinctively, she knows her neat, if lackluster life is about to change.

Born more than 200 years ago, Canaan looks like an angel but he’s far from it. In his world, the ratio of men to women is 500 to 1, and although he’s a superior being, he’s willing to break the most sacred law of his brothers, even drink human blood, to have one meant for him alone.When he meets Jordan, he knows she’s the one he’s been searching for. To claim her, Canaan will have to betray his friend, humble himself enough to win her love, and risk his very life.

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Nominated for 2012 Blog of the Year

My blog has been nominated for 2012 Blog of the Year thanks to Mae Clair.

I want to thank awesome author, Mae Clair for nominating my blog for 2012 Blog of the Year! But before I tell you about the nomination, I want to tell you about my fellow author. First of all, Mae is a great lady, a talented writer, and a friend! Many of you may already know Mae and hopefully have read her fantastic paranormal book, Weathering Rock.  So check out Mae and her book and her BLOG. Mae always has great authors, interesting topics on her blog, and simply put: she's fun and entertaining!
Now, allow me to accept her kind nomination for 2012 Blog of the Year and tell you folks just how it works.....
So how does it work? The rules are pretty straightforward:

1 Select the blog(s) you think deserve the ‘Blog of the Year 2012’ Award

2 Write a blog post and tell us about the blog(s) you have chosen – there’s no minimum or maximum number of blogs required – and ‘present’ them with their award.

3 Please include a link back to this page ‘Blog of the Year 2012’ Award –http://thethoughtpalette.co.uk/our-awards/blog-of-the-year-2012-award/and include these ‘rules’ in your post (please don’t alter the rules or the badges!)

4 Let the blog(s) you have chosen know that you have given them this award and share the ‘rules’ with them

5 You can now also join our Facebook page – click the link here ‘Blog of the Year 2012’ Award Facebook page- https://www.facebook.com/groups/BlogoftheYear/and then you can share your blog with an even wider audience

6 As a winner of the award – please add a link back to the blog that presented you with the award – and then proudly display the award on your blog and sidebar … and start collecting stars…

Yes – that’s right – there are stars to collect!

Unlike other awards which you can only add to your blog once – this award is different!

When you begin, you receive the ‘1 star’ award. Every time you are given the award by another blog you can add another star! There are a total of 6 stars to collect.

Which means that you can check out your favorite blogs – and even if they have already been given the award by someone else – you can still bestow it on them again and help them to reach the maximum 6 stars!

NOW ONTO MY NOMINATIONS:
TOME TENDER by Beth N Dianne
Tome Tender is a great place to find interesting books and authors, book reviews, author interviews and anything book related. Their motto is, when it comes to books, who needs shelf control! So if you're looking for honest reviews, good books, interesting chit-chat from 2 really nice ladies, you gotta check out Tome Tender! It's a fabulous site!
 
TEAHONEY'S BOOK CAFE by Tara Caputo
Tara does an awesome job with her blog. She has an added element of SEXINESS with her Sexy Sundays. Basically she reads a book with some hunky guy in it, like my The Undeparted series with hunky vampire Quentin, and then she looks for secy pics of guys she thinks reminds her of the character in the book! It;s pretty cool. She comes up with some hot looking guys, ladies, so you have to check out her blog and Sexy Sundays! Aside from that she's got great suggestions for what to read, honest reviews and interesting author interviews!
 
 
Jodie writes in the following genres: vampire, vampire, and VAMPIRE!
She's got 8 novellas for sale and is the author of THE VAMPIRE QUEEN SERIES.
Besides being an awesome author, Jodie is a dear friend of mine and a terrific person. So check out her BLOG and find out more about Jodie Pierce and her books!
 
Karen has a great blog, filled with fun and entertainment as well as author interviews, recipes, wonderful books to read. Karen gets about 900 hits a day on her blog, so she's doing something right. And to top it off, Karen is a really sweet person; a friend of mine! She is the author of SATIN PLEASURES as well as other romance books. Hats off to Karen!
 
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AWESOME AUTHOR, David Leadbeter

WELCOME UK BESTSELLLER, DAVID LEADBETER TO AWESOME AUTHOR.
I MET DAVID ON TWITTER; WE'RE RT BUDS AND NOW IT IS MY PLEASURE TO HOST HIM TODAY ON MY BLOG. SO GIVE HIM A BIG HELLO AND WELCOME DAVID FROM ACROSS THE POND! HE'S A BESTSELLING NOVELIST, SOMETHING WE ALL HOPE AND STRIVE FOR, SO CHECK OUT HIS BLOG AND GET SOME GOOD POINTERS ON "HOW TO."
"My supernatural thriller, CHOSEN was a #1 UK book. I am currently hard at work on the fourth Matt Drake novel, due for publication January 2013.?

CHOSEN, a  supernatural thriller in which ordinary people become heroes by doing extraordinary things. Men and women unite with Vampires and other supernatural creatures to do battle against fearsome Gods as they attempt to avert the impending apocalypse.

Across the world the Chosen Few are sought by agents of the light and the dark. Amidst daring rescues, illicit passion, crazy car chases and war in the streets of Miami, these courageous men, women and supernatural beings come together against all odds to stand against the original Evil at the end of days

'Chosen' brings all the elements of both supernatural and thriller novels together to create something new!



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THE "REAL" STAR OF BETHLEHEM

When I read the following article a couple of years ago about the real star that led the magi to Jesus, I got the goose bumps, and I hope you do too!
MERRY CHRISTMAS, AND LIKE TINY TIM SAYS, GOD BLESS US, EVERYONE! BEST WISHES AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL, WHATEVER YOUR BELIEF MAY BE!
The Star of Bethlehem has fascinated writers from across the centuries.
Experts believe the Magi or Wise Men who saw the star that led them to Bethlehem were court astrologers and advisors to the ancient kingdom of Babylon.

Was it a star? Was it a comet or simply a miracle? Some astronomers and historians are teaming up to give a logical, yet miraculous explanation.

Scholars increasingly suggest that the Star of Bethlehem was the star we know as the planet Jupiter, the king of planets representing the infant King of Kings. To get the details, astronomers like John Mosley need historians.

"You give me a period of time and I can find something in the sky that would have been sufficiently interesting to alert the wise men to send them on their journey," says Mosley.

For the last one hundred years, most experts had said that Jesus was born about 7 B.C., contradicting what the early Church writers had said about 3 B.C.

Historian Ernest Martin contends those ancient authors had it right, enabling Mosley to reconstruct on his computer those skies of old.

"August 5, 3 B.C., August 9, and there on the morning of August 12, 3 B.C., Jupiter and Venus were in very close conjunction," he explains. "I can zoom into a part of the sky so that you can see Venus and Jupiter almost touching. They were separated by about a fourteenth of a degree."

The appearance of Jupiter and Venus cheek-to-cheek was likely enough to get the Magi on their camels headed to Jerusalem because the conjunctions all took place in the constellation of the Lion that represented Israel to the Babylonians.

"Astrology is nothing more than a corruption of primitive truth that we can find in the Scripture," says Martin. "But astronomy and signs in the heavens that God did give to introduce His Son into the world are valid."

Jupiter and Venus represented a father and mother, and from them you'd expect a royal baby to be born. That is apparently what the Magi thought.

"But by the time the Magi got there about 15 months later, he was now a 'padeion,'" notes Martin. "He was a toddler."

But the Magi had more to see before they got to Bethlehem. Jupiter came close to the star Regulus, yet another symbol of royalty, not once, but three times in a looping pattern reminiscent of a celestial crown.

"Venus comes in and is in conjunction with Jupiter," explains Mosley. "Beneath the Lion, to the left of Regulus, June 17, 2 B.C."

"And we find that Jupiter in its two very close conjunctions with Venus and then three close conjunctions with the star Regulus over a ten-month period of time satisfies our concept of what would have been very exciting to the Magi and that's why we pick Jupiter as the Star," says Mosley.

So, the Magi would have viewed these events like a billboard in the sky that says a mighty king has been born in Israel!

Once they'd made their long 'star trek' to Jerusalem, scribes there told them to make the brief journey to Bethlehem. After all, the Scriptures tell of a king rising from the city of David.

Next, the return of Jupiter, once again, this time in the womb of the constellation of the Virgin. Martin interprets this as a symbol of the Virgin Mary with child and a guide for the Magi.

"They just saw it come to a stop mid-body to Virgo in the direction of Bethlehem and they went by the direction of an angel and they gave their gifts to the Christ child," says Martin.

The date, about December 25, 2 B.C., New Testament scholar Peter Jones says God brought those astrologically wacky gurus to Jesus for a reason that's still valid for the unique people in our own lives.

"We need to try and make friends with them, we need to bring them to Christ, we might not have a star in the sky, but we are disciples and that's what the Lord left with us as His command to go and make disciples of gurus," says Jones.

As much as these new explanations about the Star of Bethlehem may enrich the meaning of Christmas, the story of the star represents only one chapter in the telling of the greatest story ever told.

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FLIP FLOP FRIDAY, Readers in Wonderland

Today I am spotlighting Readers In Wonderland, A YA Book Review Blog.

Who Are These People?

has been reading ever since she can remember and loves each new world a book creates. Although a bit cynical, she's genuine and honest. She reads in every spare moment, and even every no-so spare moment. She currently is (crazily) trying to finish more than thirty books in the two months before 2013. She loves Richelle Mead.
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and Alise have been friends and book confidantes for over three years now. Brooke has a tendency to use sarcasm like breathing but she is also kind. Brooke is not afraid to be honest and blunt in a review.


is the newest member to Readers in Wonderland and you might not see her around much, she's extremely busy with classes but reads as much as she can when she can! She wishes she could read faster so she could enjoy the huge amount of novels out there.   EMAIL




is 26 years old and I am a Canadian through and through. I tend to gush a lot in my reviews about my current book boyfriends, I also say awesome and amazing way too much!


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AWESOME AUTHOR, JJ collins

PLEASE WELCOME MY GOOD FRIEND, NON- FICTION AUTHOR JJ COLLINS, FROM ACROSS THE POND

J.J.Collins is an Indie Author, Blogger and Political Commentator based in the United Kingdom Collins has always been passionate about American History and politics; he enjoyed a long and successful business career before a serious illness forced a change in life and career direction. This unexpected turn of events allowed Collins to rediscover his passion & love for writing.

"I have been fortunate enough to have travelled extensively and I have to admit, I'm definitely a news junkie! but also a person who loves learning about new cultures, places and people. I believe by capturing and studying key events in our history, is a vitally important way in understanding the modern world we live in. The study of politics and history can often assist us in opening our minds and improving our language skills and can also be a lot of fun.

I believe the study of Politics and History helps us understand other people and other societies. Society is shaped by what came before Collins says. In order to understand how we have become what we are, and why we differ from others, it's important to look to history. Very few events are truly "global" - and understanding the "non-global" is a key to understanding why people living in one country can develop stereotypes of those living in another country. It has been said that History is written by the victors however; Collins loves exploring not only why those persons were victorious, but also what was the basis for the defeat and sometimes destruction of others.

History helps us understand current events much better and on a more personal level, it can also help us understand who we are and the "risk factors" we have to face on a daily basis in this ever changing world.

In terms of role models; Abraham Lincoln is definitely one of the most inspirational and influential people I have had the privilege of studying and learning about. I also hold great admiration for the Founding Fathers; Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. I'm a pretty outgoing person so I find many things to admire in people and have been lucky enough to have worked and studied with some truly talented people in my life and career." JJ Collins


Thank you so much JJ, for your wonderful contribution to the book world AND to my humble blog! I admire you greatly! Deborah

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My blog was nominated for the very inspiring blog award

Hey, my blog was nominated for the very inspiring blog award by OLGA and so I pass on the gift to others who have inspired me; it's the way it works; it's like playing tag. Well, here we go: The Vampire Queen, Jodie Pierce, Terrell Ash Talks!, Karen Docter, Tome Tender, TeaHoney's Book Cafe, JH Gaines

AWESOME AUTHOR, Elodie Parkes

PLEASE WELCOME ELODIE PARKES
Give a big cheer, a big hello!
Elodie lives in Canterbury, United Kingdom. It’s famous for the Cathedral, Chaucer, and there is a UNESCO world heritage site, which includes the ancient ruins of St Augustine's Abbey and St Martin's Church.
She works in an antiques shop and writes. Elodie has two dogs that keep her fit with their need for walks.
Elodie writes romance, contemporary, and always erotic with a twist of mystery, paranormal, and suspense now and then. She likes to make the story unusual in some way, by a quirk in the tale
 
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‘The Horoscope Writer’ is about a man, Dominic, who is a writer and has lots of different writing jobs for magazines amongst which is that of horoscope writing. Dominic Reed, the horoscope writer, is desperate for love. He doesn’t know he has never had the kind of love he suddenly finds with Cassie the female lead character. It ignites a sexual passion in him he didn’t know he could feel.
He is a lonely soul, living in the country on a funny country lane where a few artisan’s workshops are. Fortunately he has a friend there too, Jeremy, who has a workshop, design studio there on the lane.
Dominic is lonely. His last relationship broke up a couple of years prior to the opening of the story and he really wants love.
There is a workshop to let on the lane and Cassie comes along to rent it.
Dominic is instantly attracted to her when he sees her in Jeremy’s office and she finds Dominic irresistible.
There is a mild paranormal streak running through what is an erotic romance because Dominic has been strangely influenced by his great uncle who was also a horoscope writer.
This is a love story, erotic and enticing.
 
 
EXCERPT 18+ From The Horoscope Writer
 
“Can I get you anything Cassie? Coffee?”
She smiled at him thinking he had perhaps changed his mind about going to bed together.
“Okay coffee is good” she answered.
Dominic washed his hands and made coffee. Cassie watched him.
“If you’ve changed your mind Dominic it’s okay”, she told him. It was what Dominic needed.
He went to her and held her head to kiss her. The kiss was like nectar to Cassie and she began to put her hand up inside his sweater to reach his skin. Dominic held her head with one hand kissing her almost desperately as he used the other hand to unzip her jeans and push them down her thighs. Cassie unzipped his jeans. Dominic felt almost lightheaded, he couldn’t stop kissing her, and he put his hand down inside her underwear to press his palm against her lower stomach.
Cassie gasped and searched for a way to lower his jeans and feel his hard bottom. She felt his fingers reach her entrance and she parted her legs a little so that he could push them into her.
Dominic’s voice was a whisper.
“Cassie let’s go to bed. I want to feel you naked against me. I need you”.
She nodded slightly as his face was still against hers. She moaned involuntarily as he took his fingers from her.
Dominic took her jacket, and put it over the back of a kitchen chair.
Cassie pulled her jeans up leaving them unzipped.
Dominic held her hand to lead her up to his bedroom. The staircase was surprisingly wide, and they could walk up there side by side. Dominic’s room was at the end of the landing, and he pushed the door open with the side of his body as he turned to hold Cassie again and kiss her.
Somehow, though it wasn’t clear how to either of them when they thought about it later, they undressed, and lay clasped against each other on the bed breathing into each other’s mouths when the sensation of being skin to skin overwhelmed them for a few moments.
Dominic traced his fingers down her stomach reaching her entrance to find she was wet for him. His lips found hers and their tongues touched gently as his fingers began to work magic on Cassie. She moved against his palm and made little sounds into his kiss as she reached for him. He thrust into her hands and they both groaned with need.
“Cassie wait I’ll find a condom”, he said, as she began to whisper her need to him.
“Dominic I need you inside me now”, she whispered over, and over as she kissed him.
Her hands felt cool on him and he was still thrusting his hips as he moved his fingers in her. Cassie was close to coming and she kissed Dominic shaking a little against his lips.
“Dominic I’m going to---”. He knew, and he decided to give her that first.
He kissed her tenderly and moved his thumb over her bud, his fingers deep inside her. “Cassie I know, let go, do it”, he whispered, and left his lips soft against her mouth as she moaned and thrust on his fingers coming. It seemed to last a long time and Dominic liked that. He looked at her with love as she finally opened her eyes and smiled a little at him.
He wanted to be inside her and he reached over her to the drawer in the bedside table to find a condom. He couldn’t find one, and because he was kissing Cassie as she stroked his erection, he stopped kissing her to look into the drawer. Cassie took the opportunity to move down his body and take him into her mouth. She felt his intake of breath as she did it and held his hips still before moving a hand to hold him low on his shaft and suck him.
Dominic let the feeling of complete pleasure soothe his worry about not finding a condom. He held Cassie’s head gently with his hands in her hair. As he looked down at her, Cassie shifted her body and moved her leg over his so that he could feel her entrance wet against the top of his shin. Her hair fell over his lower stomach. She was doing amazing things with her tongue and his gaze fell on the lovely curve of her bottom and length of her satiny thighs. Dominic felt his orgasm rise up from his thighs as Cassie’s hair feathered across them. The sensation rippled up him all the way to his lips and he groaned. Cassie kept him in her mouth until she knew he had completely finished. She had never known quite what to do with the mouthful of seed and this seemed like such a lot. Without thinking too much about it she swallowed and then kissed up his stomach and chest until she nuzzled against his throat.
Dominic could feel her moving gently against his thigh and sighed at the pleasure it gave him to feel her damp entrance on his skin.
“Cassie”, he whispered, as she sucked a little at the base of his throat.
She waited.
“Cassie”, he whispered again, and he lifted her gently up so that her head was level with his. He kissed her tenderly and then kept her cuddled against him. They both closed their eyes and lay quietly together until they slept for a short time.
 Copyright Elodie Parkes 2012
 
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AWESOME AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT, MELISSA KEIR

WELCOME TO AWESOME AUTHOR MELISSA KEIR
 
Melissa Keir has always wanted to be an author when she wasn’t hoping for a career as a race car driver. Her love of books was instilled by her mother and grandparents who were avid readers. She’d often sneak books away from them so that she could fantasize about those strong alpha males and plucky heroines. In middle school and high school, Melissa wrote sappy love poems and shared them with her friends. She still has those poems today! In college, her writing changed to sarcastic musings on life as well as poems with a modern twist on fairy tales and won awards for her writing. You can find many of these musings along with her latest releases on her website and blog.



There is something enticing about a small town during the holidays. Maybe it is the festive decorations dotting the streetlights or the three-story plastic Santa Claus that stands sentinel over the lawn of my favorite restaurant. I love when the snow creates a winter wonderland as the aroma of baked goods filter out into the street from Keidrowski’s Bakery or watching the children with their faces pressed up against the old Ben Franklin’s window. The older homes become showcases once the lights go on and darkness settles about the town. It is so peaceful to drive through the town looking at all the lights while listening to Christmas music on the radio. The church bell still rings on the hour at the church on the corner of Church Street and people just seem friendlier.

I wanted to share my hometown with my readers. Amherst, Ohio has become a huge part of the Wilder Sisters series. Each book shares a little bit about the city and what it was like growing up in the town. Forever Love talks about the teen years at the local beach. Beach Desires shares some of the angst of high school, while A Christmas Accident shows how the community comes together for others. I encourage you to take a trip to Amherst in the latest Wilder Sisters series book.

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A CHRISTMAS ACCIDENT BLURB:
Sherri Wilder Davison wants nothing more than to spend time with her father and sister over the holidays, but fate has a way of changing her best-laid plans.
Adam Davison is willing to do anything to make his pregnant wife happy. He will face hell to take her home for the holidays.
When a holiday storm causes an automobile accident that puts the lives of those she loves on the line, can a Christmas miracle save them?
 
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THE UNDEPARTED


My paranormal mystery/romance series


Book one


Quentin turned his eyes on her to convince her that she was being too hasty in deciding their fate. She was suddenly struck by the darkness of his eyes. There was something about them that melted her like hot wax. She wanted to resist him, but it was as if she had no willpower of her own. This one, he was strong. So much stronger than Christian. He knelt down at her side on a Persian rug of red and gold. She could smell his cologne. She could feel his breath on her neck. He felt compelled to taste her essence and she wanted to surrender herself to him.....
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WHEN THE TEMPERATURE RISES

Well, before I take you for a spin in Detective Humphrey McAllister's 1941 black Ford Sedan right up to the crime scene of Sam Santino's murder, I want to explain some things to you about Humphrey.

Humphrey was constantly skirt chasing; blonde dames were like magnets and he had absolutely no self control. His other device was consuming too much of the funny water. Yeah, yeah he shook those nasty habits like dance hall girls doing the hoochie coochie, but it's hard to prove you've got your act together. Pot bellied Captain Milroy has lost all faith in his Detective and reluctantly turns over the Santino case to Humph. Humph has 48 hours to solve it or he's gonna be demoted from homicide to following bed jumpers at sleazy motels.

Let's fast forward just a bit shall we. Santino got himself whacked pretty good. He's shot up full of bullet holes so that he looks like a damn piece of swiss cheese. He's alive when Humphrey arrives, barely alive; Humphrey dials the emergency wagon for poor Sam, but Sam expires before the wagon arrives. Before his unfortunate demise though he tries to convey some kind of message to Humphrey, but he has too much lead in him to complete a sentence. There might be a clue though but Humphrey can't decipher it.

So, Humphrey sweeps the apartment for tangible clues and one clue leads to another and takes Humphrey on a journey to some pretty interesting people on his list; some are voluptuous blonde dames that attract the Detective like magnets, others are boxers who could lay Humphrey out with one right hook. But the most interesting suspect comes right out of left field like some fly ball: Roberta, Humphrey's ex wife.




Now what you have to understand about Humphrey is he's still carrying a torch for Roberta, so hauling her in is the last thing he wants to do. In fact, Humphrey's thinking he'll see ice skating in hell before he slaps handcuffs on her.



So anyway, he pulls up to Roberta's quaint rancher with the green shutters and wants to see if he can shake that feeling about her guilt, but when Ro's cat Tuna gets out of the house and dashes into the bushes, Humphrey does the gentlemanly thing and scoots down through the bushes to save Tuna. That's when Humphrey gets the shock of his life!
Now I can't tell you bupkis about what happens for obvious reasons. Whether or not he slaps a steel bracelet on his ex and hauls her off or not or let's her walk into the sunset....you'll have to read the novel WHEN THE TEMPERATURE RISES.  BUY NOW
If you do I sure hope you enjoy it!
Ciao!
Deborah Palumbo