Release Day!

Today I'm so excited because it's the release of my new book, Teardrops Know My Name, and I’m touring and making stops at a couple of spots.  I’ll be giving away an Amazon Gift card to one lucky winner while stopping here: 

WNL Virtual Book Tours


I will also be featured and interviewed today on my friend and fellow author Michele Kimbrough’s blog today.  Come stop by and join us.  Check out some of her books while you’re there: 

https://kimbroughwriter.wordpress.com/2015/03/27/teardrops-know-my-name/

Writing Tips



I was tagged yesterday on Facebook to write seven secrets of writing.  I don't really have any writing secrets.  I'm a work in progress, but here's some of what I've learned from the best with a few of my own:

 

1.  Find a special place or time to write that’s good for you.

2.  Nothing is written in stone.  It will go through several drafts until the finished product.  The first draft doesn’t have to be perfect.  You can change as much as you would like.  Don’t be afraid to move things around, cut out whole scenes or chapters if they don’t fit.

3.  Don’t get stuck on word count.  Just write your story, no matter how long or how short.

4.  Read, read, read.  Read different genres. Read well written books.

5. Write, write, write.  Write as much and as often as you can.  Even if it’s a word, a sentence or a paragraph.  Writing is not a marathon, you can take your time.

6. When editing your manuscript, print it and read it out loud.

7.  Lastly, remember the reason you started writing in the first place.

Spotlight - Author LaQuette

Hanging with me again in the spotlight, Author La Quette.  She's back with her new release, Divided Heart.  I fell in love with book one, Heart of the Matter and can't wait to read Divided Heart. 

Title: Divided Heart: Queens of Kings Book 2

Publisher: Hot Ink Press

Release Date: February 22, 2015

Buy link: Amazon

 

Author contact info:

Amazon's Author Page

Facebook

Twitter @LaQuettelikes

 







 

Excerpt:

He was a tall man with alabaster skin and midnight locks that fell beyond his shoulders and down his back. He was dressed in a crisp grey business suit that made his crystal blue eyes sparkle. He wore a knowing smile that said, “I know you know that I’m the ish.” He was a cocky bastard, true, but she had firsthand knowledge of just how amazing he really was. She also had firsthand knowledge that everything that self-assured smile promised, he was more than capable of delivering. He sat on her desk with his long legs stretched out in front of him and crossed at the ankles. Easy, calm, confident, and sexy as all hell.

 

“You know you’re risking life and limb by sitting on my desk like you own it, right?” she asked as she closed the door behind her. She looked around to make certain the blinds on her office windows and doors were in a closed position, this was a moment that was meant solely for the two of them.

 

“I may not own the desk, but I own the woman that it belongs to…so I kinda do own it if you think about it,” he said as the silky sureness of his voice traveled across the room and pulled her to him.

Before she could say just how it happened, she was standing in front of him between spread legs, falling into the broad expanse of his chest. “You own me do you?” Her voice hitched as she felt his fingers skate from her fingers to her arms causing her skin to sizzle.

“I thought that’s what these rings we wear meant? I own you, you own me? Was I wrong?” He leaned in and placed a light kiss on her cheek, and just like any other time his skin met hers, a sensual burn began to singe the area where his lips had rested for only a brief second.

“Mmmm,” she moaned. “You bet your pretty ass we belong to each other.” She wrapped her hand in his long tresses and pulled him to her, letting her body sink into his and searching for the connection only his kiss could bring. She found his warm, soft lips and mewled into the decadence of the pleasure they ignited inside her.

“God I wish we were home instead of in my office.”



About Author:

 

A native of Brooklyn, New York, LaQuette spends her time catering to her three distinct personalities: Wife, Mother, and Educator. Writing--her escape from everyday madness--has always been a friend and comforter. She loves writing and devouring romance novels. Although she possesses a graduate degree in English Lit, she'd forego Shakespeare any day to read something hot, lusty, and romantic.

She loves hearing from readers and discussing the crazy characters that are running around in her head causing so much trouble. Contact her on Facebook, Twitter, her website, Amazon, and her Facebook group, LaQuette's Lounge.

Here are her other books:

Heart of the Matter



 

Heart “Mac” MacKenzie is a tough police lieutenant in the NYPD servicing the rough streets of Brooklyn, New York.  She’s a strong leader who doesn’t mind getting in the trenches with the men and women she leads at the seventy-fourth precinct. Her house, her people, and her family—both blue and blood—are the only things that matter.  She would live and die for the blue wall that shields her from a traumatic past.

When her captain assigns her a high-profile kidnapping case that she doesn’t want, and insists she allows the missing girl’s irritatingly sexy uncle to tag along during the investigation, her blood boils.  Mac has no choice but to do what she always does when things get out of control, lay down the law—her law.

Kenneth Searlington is a rich playboy from the Upper East Side of Manhattan.  With stunning looks and an unlimited source of wealth, he’s used to being the center of everyone’s attention, especially the women that he comes in contact with in high society. His life is fun and carefree until his niece, Merridith is kidnapped, and he’s forced to seek out the help of his godfather an NYPD police captain, David Porter.

Afraid and frustrated, Kenneth defers to his uncle’s expertise and his promise that he’s putting his best cop on the case, Lieutenant MacKenzie.  When Kenneth discovers “Mac” is actually a sexy as sin lady cop with a fiery temper to match, he decides mixing a little business with pleasure might be just the thing he needs to distract him from long-standing family issues that are trying to crawl their way back into the forefront of his life.

Each used to having their own way, can these two work together long enough to bring an innocent child home?  Or will they settle their differences and unyielding attraction in a more carnal way and get right down to the heart of the matter?

Available on Amazon

My Beginning

Genesis Lawrence left her home and family in Brooklyn, New York ten years ago and never looked back. When you've spent your entire life protecting yourself from the ones that are supposed to love you, running to the other side of the country seems like the best idea ever. Emotionally bankrupt, she begins rebuilding her life after failed familial connections and a broken marriage leave her too raw to ever believe happiness exists for her. Work as a Physical Therapist in her rehab clinic is all she knows and all she wants.

Drew Marrack has spent the last year of his life trying to end the soul-searing pain of losing his mother by any means necessary, even if that means ending him—literally. After a tragic accident and a resulting disability that devastates the tattered remnants of his world, only one name can give him a brand-new start: Genesis.

Pain, heartache, secrets, and tragedy from the past bring them together, and then fight to tear them apart. Is new love strong enough to give them the fresh beginning they both need, or is this simply the beginning of their end?

Available on Amazon