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Thanks to Kathy from I Am a Reader for once again hosting this spooky hop! I'm a big fan of Halloween. To prove it, check out the carrot costume on my avatar. ;-) I have some treats for you this holiday. In preparation for December's New Adult Sleepover Weekend , where I'll sign copies of my NA swimming romance Streamline , I ordered bookish swim caps: I can't wait to give away this swim cap. But wait, there's more! I'm also giving away: * A $10 iTunes gift card * A Jennifer Lane ebook of your choice ( With Good Behavior, Bad Behavior, On Best Behavior , or Streamline ) To enter, simply complete the Rafflecopter form: a Rafflecopter giveaway Now hop on over to these spooktacular blogs--each one is offering at least $10!

With the release of On Best Behavior , the Con duct Series is complete! Thank you to Julie at AToMR  and Traci from Omnific Publishing for blasting together a book blast for On Best Behavior (The Con duct Series #3). Their con duct is exemplary. Win two signed print copies of On Best Behavior and TEN ebooks from the entire series! Here's the tour schedule. Please visit these GOOD bloggers to read excerpts and enter the giveaway. They're the best. September 23 Swept Away by Romance BLOG (Review) September 24 (Release Day) A Diary of a Book Addict BLOG Wild Wordy Women BLOG The Hedonistic Minimalist BLOG Martini Times Romance BLOG Deea's Book BLOG Anny's Book BLOG Book Drunk BLOG Rose & Beps Book BLOG September 25 A Trail of Books Left Behind BLOG September 26 Sweet Spot Book BLOG September 27 RoloPolo Book BLOG In Between the Pages BLOG Bookshelf Confessions BLOG September 28 Funinmental BLOG September...

The release of On Best Behavior (The Con duct Series #3) is HERE ! Julie from AToMR Tours hosts the book blast, and today's stop is at Swept Away by Romance. Karla writes an awesome review , and there's a giveaway of the entire series. Here's the video trailer of On Best Behavior : Planning a wedding is never easy—especially when the Russian Mafia wants you dead. On Best Behavior—the third and final book in The Conduct Series—finds our favorite couple moving forward, despite the odds. Following a pardon by the Governor of Illinois, ex-cons Sophie Taylor and Grant Madsen are finally free to pursue their love and the life that lies ahead for them. Grant now fights the forces that have hurt his loved ones by working undercover for the FBI, and he has infiltrated the Russian Mafia in Chicago. Sophie dives into swimming with Grant’s nephew, Ben, and into her career as a psychology professor. Thankfully, now it’s Ben’s turn to heal through therapy session...

Only four more days until release day of On Best Behavior ! It's exciting to finish my first series. Earlier I posted the first part of a scene that we cut in the editing process. Here's part two of Sophie and Grant in the church, planning their wedding: “You know what I was thinking about during our little moment of silence?” Grant asked. Sophie shook her head. “Well, I imagined you in your wedding dress, at the end of the aisle.” He gestured toward the altar. “I’m standing right there waiting for you, fidgeting with the flower on my lapel, and when I see you, you look so stunning. Radiant and exquisite.” She glanced at the entrance of the sanctuary and then back at him. “Mmm, I can see it too. You’re standing by Pastor Tom, looking so McSailoricious in a tux. I want to tear down the aisle, run into your arms.” He continued the little fantasy. “You try to run, but…your father, he slows you down. He walks you to me—” he flinched as if watching a horror flick “—but then ...

On Best Behavior releases in one week: September 24, 2013! Make sure you enter the Goodreads giveaway *points to the right* My awesome editor Jessica Royer Ocken always helps me tighten the story, which included deleting this scene from the first chapter. Sophie and Grant have stopped by the church to plan their nuptials. I'll be back with part two of the scene on Friday. Enjoy! Tom smiled. “You two already act like a married couple, so I’m sure you’ll be just fine. Stop by and talk to Betty on the way out. You can check the calendar for this summer, and schedule our next meeting.” “Thank you, Pastor Tom.” Sophie stood. Grant followed suit. “Thank you, sir.” Ten minutes later they headed out of the church. When they passed by the sanctuary, Sophie halted. “Let’s take a peek.” Grant followed her into the spacious rectangular hall with vaulted ceilings. Morning light streamed in through the long windows lining the walls, illuminating the beige paint and pine woo...

Who's ready for some smack down? We are! We naughty ladies of Omnific Publishing toss our men into the ring to duke it out, mano a mano, muscle to muscle . . . and may the best book hero win. Each author submits a photo representing her book hero, and readers vote for their favorites. There will be giveaways of ebooks, swag, and an Amazon gift card! Love Between the  Sheets  will host the brackets for ultimate book boyfriend starting September 30. So who are my contenders?  My shy book heroes have hung back, scoping the competition, but now they're ready to reveal themselves. No, my book boyfriend is not Long Duck Dong. (Though he IS quite charming) Allow me to introduce LEO SCOTT from Streamline : Leo sends my mind straight to the gutter (the swimming pool gutter). He'll conquer all book boyfriends in a pushup contest, and his sincere striving will break your heart. And now the hero of The Con duct Series, GRANT MADSEN : In ...

Congratulations, Alex Cavanaugh ! Your brainchild Insecure Writers Support Group celebrates its two year anniversary today, and I'm happy to be part of the group. Today I want to discuss critique partners , and I have many questions for you. Do you have a critique partner? Several? How does it work for you? (What's the structure? Has it helped you? What do you wish you'd known when you started?) A good friend and I agreed to be critique partners, and I want to learn from the collective wisdom of this group about how to make this relationship work best. When I started writing, I posted stories online, and the feedback made me eager to get the next chapter out there. Now that I'm writing novels, my motivation has waned. I'm hoping that having an encouraging friend waiting for the next chapter will help inspire me to write more frequently. ~*~ In other news, my next novel On Best Behavior (The Con duct Series #3) launches 9-24-13. In celebration, my pub...

Thanks to Lisa Loves Literature and Kathy I Am A Reader for hosting this hop celebrating SEQUELS. Are you a huge series fan like me? I love when subsequent books are even better than the first book in the series. Here are some of my favorite sequels: Unlawful Contact (the I-Team #3) by Pamela Clare. An escaped convict who kidnaps his high school girlfriend to save his sister's life? Awesome plot and swoon-worthy hero. Lover Awakened (Black Dagger Brotherhood #3) by J.R. Ward. I'm not a vampire fangurl but I do love a wounded hero like Zsadist. And the sequel I can't WAIT to read is Losing Hop e by Colleen Hoover. Hopeless was brilliant and I want to read Holder's POV. I have a sequel of my own launching 9-24-13: On Best Behavior (The Con duct Series #3). I want YOU to win the Advanced Reader Copy! With Good Behavior (The Con duct Series #1) starts the mayhem of a convict love story, and I'm also giving away its sequel Bad Behavior (The Con du...

The release of On Best Behavior is less than one month away! *jumps up and down* Here's a glimpse of what's inside--an excerpt from Chapter 5: "Con Tequila". Lurching awake on the sofa, Sophie scanned the darkened apartment. All was quiet except for the rasp of her breaths as she tried to orient herself. Then there was the noise that must have stirred her from sleep—a scratching at the door. She heard a slight clink of metal, the crunch of a key jamming into the lock, and harsh cursing from the hallway. Was a Barberi thug trying to break into the apartment? She was fully awake now. Soundlessly she crept toward the front door, halting at the clang of keys dropping on the hallway carpet. More swearing ensued, and her heart leaped to her throat. She was almost to the peephole when a soft chuckle floated through the door. Relief flooded her. She’d recognize that sound anywhere. Yanking open the door, she had to look down to find Grant crouching at h...

It's here! The cover for my fourth novel On Best Behavior has arrived: The Con duct Series, #3   Publisher: Omnific Publishing   Expected release: September 24, 2013   Genre: Romantic Suspense Planning a wedding is never easy—especially when the Russian Mafia wants you dead.  On Best Behavior —the third and final book in The Con duct Series—finds our favorite couple moving forward, despite the odds. Following a pardon by the Governor of Illinois, ex-cons Sophie Taylor and Grant Madsen are finally free to pursue their love and the life that lies ahead for them. Grant now fights the forces that have hurt his loved ones by working undercover for the FBI, and he has infiltrated the Russian Mafia in Chicago. Sophie dives into swimming with Grant’s nephew, Ben, and into her career as a psychology professor. Thankfully, now it’s Ben’s turn to heal through therapy sessions with Dr. Hunter Hayes.  With so many things going right fo...

Time for our monthly support group! *pulls up a chair and nods to group leader Alex * What's on tap for today's group? I want to discuss book VISUALS. Have you made a book trailer for your novel? Looked for images of models representing your characters? I've spent hours on both tasks this week. My aunt Nancy, who works as a video producer, is helping my publisher and me with a book trailer for On Best Behavior (The Con duct Series #3), before its release in September. My task is to write a script and find images. Nancy and I agreed on the opening line for the trailer: Planning a wedding is never easy... Especially when mobsters want you dead. But the rest takes diligent work to make it shiny and fresh! Then, I needed to find images to represent my hawt romantic heroes for my publisher's "Men of Omnific Smackdown" at the end of September. It was HARD WORK perusing thousands of images of scrumptious gents to find just the right ones, I ...

Congratulations to Nicole and Kerrin, the big winners of Kindle Fires on the Sizzling Summer Giveaway! If you missed the giveaway, more opportunities to win abound. Bookish Treasures hosts a New Adult giveaway HERE , where you can win Streamline . Hop over to Martini Times to win: Streamline HERE With Good Behavior (The Con duct Series #1) HERE . I'm thrilled the third and final book of The Con duct Series ( On Best Behavior ) will launch 9-24-13. We've been editing like madwomen (not much of a stretch for me) and I'm pleased with the result. One scene that got the axe was this flashback from Grant's sixteen-year-old nephew Ben. If you've read my books, you know I love to write therapy scenes and flashbacks. In this part of Ben's therapy session with Dr. Hunter Hayes, he remembers when he was five years old and spent the night at his father Logan's apartment: His tummy hurt. He’d woken up on the sofa an hour ago, and he’d trie...