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.

I'm so excited to release my first psychological thriller today. Early reviews have been wonderful and I hope you find this twin story to be a page turner. Twin Sacrifice by Jennifer Lane Genre : Psychological Thriller Release Date : February 28, 2018 My twin brother is determined to kill himself, but I won’t let him.  I just discovered the sacrifice he made for me when we were young. Now it’s time I return the favor. This time I’ll be the one with the secret. Psychologist Matthew Durante’s twin brother, Justin, has struggled with mental illness since their parents died in a house fire. After Justin is accused of setting off a bomb that killed an innocent woman, he lands in a maximum-security psychiatric hospital. In the face of Justin’s unrelenting suicide attempts, Matthew grows frantic to keep him alive. And as the pieces of their past fall into place, Matthew decides bold action is his only choice, no matter the cost. Set against the backdrop o...

To celebrate my sports romances BLOCKED , ACED (Blocked #2), SPIKED (Blocked #3), and STREAMLINE , I'm joining the March Madness Giveaway! Score Big during the $250 March Madness Cash giveaway where you have the option of choosing between $250 PayPal Cash OR an Amazon E-Gift Card!  This event was organized by The Kids Did It & The Mommy Island and sponsored by the awesome bloggers, authors, and Etsy shop owners listed below! Give some love to the March Madness sponsors and follow them on social media: March Madness Sponsors: The Kids Did It The Mommy Island Zombie Parenting Healthy Happy Thrifty Family Parenting Healthy Easy Enter Sweepstakes Savvy Sweeper's Tidbits Mom To Grandma Home Jobs By Mom Krazy Kat Freebies PaulaMS' Giveaways, Reviews, & Freebies bookroomreviews MajorLeagueMommy   Author Mary Ting Misadventures with Andi Nicki Elson's Not-so-deep Thoughts Miss Molly Says Confessions of a Frugal Mind Hip Mama's...

Welcome to the Midwinter's Eve Giveaway Hop! Thanks to Mary from Book Hounds for hosting. I for one am excited the days will get longer after Winter Solstice. The short daylight is my least favorite part of winter. But I love cozying up in fleece and sipping hot drinks. I'm giving away a $10 gift card and a Jennifer Lane ebook of the winner's choice. I write sports romance and romantic suspense with a psychological twist. Check out college volleyball romance BLOCKED for only $.99. Enter on the Rafflecopter. a Rafflecopter giveaway Hop over to these blogs to win stuff!

Spiked has been out in the world for a week, generating wonderful reviews! "Starting from the moving dedication to victims of trauma, to the very satisfying ending, this was not only a very engaging book, but also thought-provoking and inspirational." ~Teresa from Goodreads "I FLOVE MATEO AND JESSICA. FLOVE, FLOVE, FLOVE. I mean, come on, who wouldn't like this broken guy who ends up being perfectly imperfect with a girl he never thought he would chance to meet. She is beautiful, smart, and yet utterly broken as well. They build each other up as much as they break each other's walls down." ~Amy's Review Obsession (this one made me laugh!) The hero Mateo Ramirez is a singer/songwriter, so music is quite important to the story. Which songs inspired SPIKED? 1) Lay it All on Me by Rudimental featuring Ed Sheeran Let my love in, let my love in  Lay your heart on me  If you're hurting, if you're hurting  ...

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...

Happy May, writers. Time to discuss our hopes and fears. Join us at Alex Cavanaugh's blog . The amazing  co-hosts for the May 4 posting of the IWSG will be   Stephen Tremp,   Fundy Blue,   MJ Fifield,   Loni Townsend,   Bish Denham,   Susan Gourley,   and   Stephanie Faris! We writers find inspiration in the strangest places. For me, Pinterest is top on my list. I'm addicted to Pinterest, I must admit. I like to create a Pinterest board when writing to collect images and websites that relate to the story. For my work in progress SPIKED (Blocked #3), I've pinned these images: 1) Volleyball T-shirts (the heroine from Blocked has quite a collection) 2) Bad pickup lines (How Mateo gets Jessica to laugh) What inspires YOUR writing? What's the worst pickup line you've heard?

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