Jennifer Lane Books Blog

Thanks to The Kids Did It and Mommy Island for hosting. Summer is around the corner, hooray! In Ohio, that means outdoor swimming in a pool, not a beach. But I love swimming outdoors in any body of water. Want a fun, summer beach read? My volleyball romance BLOCKED is free till 5/27. Get it HERE . I'm giving away a $10 gift card as well as an ebook of my swimming romance, Streamline . Enter on the Rafflecopter. a Rafflecopter giveaway Swim on over to these blogs to win stuff, and watch out for sharks on the way.

Welcome to the New Adult Christmas in July Promo! This week you'll find all these wonderful New Adult titles for $2.99 or less out on Amazon. (My book, BLOCKED, is only $.99!) Be sure to read up on each title and check them out.  Death Island Author: Kelsey Ketch Her family name tainted by her great-grandfather’s crimes of piracy, Meriden Cummings is far from the typical 18th century woman. A social outcast, she works in a carpentry shop in a small village, where the people barely tolerate unconventional behavior. However, her life takes a turn after a gang of pirates attack her village and her blood reveals an ancient map adorned with Mayan glyphs leading to Death Island. An island legends say is ruled by the Mayan god of the underworld, Ah Puch. Her great-grandfather had sought after the island before he vanished without a trace. Now, Meriden is about to journey across the sea to understand her family history. There are only a few problems: her growing feelings tow...

Many thanks to The Kids Did It and The Mommy Island for hosting this fun hop! The beach is my happy place. In addition to a $10 gift card, I'm giving away my college sports romance BLOCKED ebook trilogy. ACED (Blocked #2) is on sale for $.99 until May 20. ACED features an interracial romance between med student Alejandro and volleyball star Maddie. Enter on the Rafflectoper, and good luck! Hope you get to visit a beach soon. a Rafflecopter giveaway Hop over to these awesome blogs to win stuff!

Welcome to the New Adult Valentine's Promo! This week you'll find all these wonderful New Adult titles for 99 cents or less out on Amazon. Be sure to read up on each title and check them out. Book two of the Blocked series, ACED , is on sale for only $.99. Saying Goodbye, Part One Author: Abigail Drake Samantha Barnes always dreamed of seeing the world, and only has a few months left before she starts a semester abroad in Japan. Enough time to say goodbye to her friends, polish up her language skills, and maybe even squeeze in a quick fling with handsome fraternity boy Dylan Hunter. All she wants from Dylan is something casual, and perhaps some mind-blowing sex, but things don’t work out as planned. Dylan wants a lot more from her than a hook-up. Before Sam realizes what’s happening, their relationship has become serious, something she never intended. And then she discovers Dylan is hiding a dark secret that makes breaking up with him nearly impossible. Sam is runn...

Death Island by Kelsey Ketch Genre : New Adult Publication : December 31st, 2017 Cover Designer :  Desiree DeOrto Designs Her family name tainted by her great-grandfather’s crimes of piracy, Meriden Cummings is far from the typical 18th century woman. A social outcast, she works in a carpentry shop in a small village, where the people barely tolerate unconventional behavior. However, her life takes a turn after a gang of pirates attack her village and her blood reveals an ancient map adorned with Mayan glyphs leading to Death Island. An island legends say is ruled by the Mayan god of the underworld, Ah Puch. Her great-grandfather had sought after the island before he vanished without a trace. Now, Meriden is about to journey across the sea to understand her family history. There are only a few problems: her growing feelings toward a mysterious stranger linked to her great-grandfather’s past; a greedy band of pirates after her great-grandfather’s legendary tre...

Welcome to the February FREE for All Event February 5-9, 2017! BLOCKED is FREE for a limited time. Click to download these romance reads. And, enter to win a Kindle and $25 gift cards! Thank you for being loyal readers! To show their appreciation, your favorite authors have come together to offer a book for FREE. Download one or all. Maybe you'll find your next favorite author. Please note: all sales are limited time offers. Don't have a Kindle? Don't worry. Read with the FREE Kindle App. **Please note: these books may not be free on other Amazon sites and many of these books are free for a limited time only.** I'm offering a $10 gift card and ebooks of ACED (Blocked #2) and SPIKED (Blocked #3) to those who help me spread the word about Blocked! a Rafflecopter giveaway

New Sports Romance Release ✯✯SPIKED by Jennifer Lane✯✯ Book 3 in Jennifer Lane´s Blocked Series! They say University is the time To find yourself But I don’t need to find myself Just want to find you After watching his older siblings find their love matches at Highbanks University, Mateo Ramirez feels unlikely to follow in their footsteps. What girl would want him? Unlike his brother and sister, he battles diabetes and chooses music over sports. But at least he can write songs about his life—and the girl who caught his eye when their parents ran against each other for US President. Hey, chica! Come conmigo And baby, why don’t we go Down under the bridge to the water With you it can only get hotter Jessica Monroe is a talented swimmer who dreams of representing Team USA at the Olympics. When she earns an athletic scholarship to Highbanks, she’s excited to attend the same school as the cute boy she met two years ago: Mateo. Too bad he’s not around w...

Welcome to the Insecure Writers Support Group, August edition. Alex Cavanaugh leads the band of fledgling, fun writers. Join us HERE . And now for the two-part IWSG question of the month! What was your very first piece of writing as an aspiring writer? I never anticipated becoming a writer. But when my psychologist career took a downturn in 2007, I got hooked on the TV show Prison Break . The dark themes and conspiracy theories of the show echoed my own gloom at the time, I guess. I stumbled across a section on the Fox discussion board: Fan Fiction . "What's this?" I thought. I read some stories and shook my head. "What LOSERS are writing stories about TV characters?" Fast forward a couple of months and I started writing my own fan fiction! The first piece was laughable in its inept writing. I was lucky for kind TV fans who encouraged me. I decided to write a Prison Break story about what I knew: swimming. My writing style was bloated, but some read...

✯✯SPIKED by Jennifer Lane✯✯ Cover Reveal The cover for book 3 in Jennifer Lane´s Blocked Series! Spiked Blurb They say University is the time To find yourself But I don’t need to find myself Just want to find you After watching his older siblings find their love matches at Highbanks University, Mateo Ramirez feels unlikely to follow in their footsteps. What girl would want him? Unlike his brother and sister, he battles diabetes and chooses music over sports. But at least he can write songs about his life—and the girl who caught his eye when their parents ran against each other for US President. Hey, chica! Come conmigo And baby, why don’t we go Down under the bridge to the water With you it can only get hotter Jessica Monroe is a talented swimmer who dreams of representing Team USA at the Olympics. When she earns an athletic scholarship to Highbanks, she’s excited to attend the same school as the cute boy she met two years ago: Mateo. Too bad ...

Welcome to July's Insecure Writers Support Group, started by Alex J Cavanaugh. Join us HERE . Happy summer in the northern hemisphere! How's your summer going? I love swimming laps in my outdoor pool... ...and I can't wait to watch swimming and other sports in the Olympics. I don't love a day job extra project that involves writing long papers with an August deadline. Fiction writing is WAY more fun! I'm ramping up to release my next novel on 10/1/16: New Adult Sports Romance SPIKED (Blocked #3). Spiked features the awesome sport of swimming. We plan a cover reveal and review tour as well as a Facebook party . I hope to put the first two novels on sale, too. Any other marketing strategies you recommend? If you'd like to help host the cover reveal for Spiked  on 8/1/16, sign ups are HERE .  (Warning: this cover contains another shirtless man. But my character's personality is much more important than his abs, I swear!)

If you want authors to shudder with fear and revulsion, ask them to write a BLURB. What's a blurb? It's a brief summary of a story. The best blurbs hook the reader without giving away too much. We writers are a verbose bunch and it's tough for us to pack our narrative into a pithy punch. This is where critique partners and editors come in handy! What characterizes your favorite blurbs? I've been drawn to starting with a sentence or two from the first person point of view. However, I wrote the blurbs for my first two books in the Blocked series in the third person, and wanted to stay consistent for book three. I found a compromise for SPIKED (Blocked #3) by adding song lyrics to the blurb to capture the first person perspective of the hero Mateo, who's a singer / songwriter. SPIKED (Blocked #3) They say University is the time To find yourself But I don’t need to find myself Just want to find you   After watching his older siblings fi...