The Jingle Bell Hop!
Welcome to Maddy Barone’s stop on the Jingle Bell Hop! If you’ve lost your place and want to hop back on the sleigh,Click Here!
I wasn’t sure what to do for my post. I’ve been really busy getting Wolf Tracker ready for publication, plus working on a free read that I want to put out in February, so my time has been really limited. So I decided that a romance author can’t go wrong by having a big bowl of eye candy sitting out for visitors to sample. Enjoy a few sweets while you’re here! Which of the hotties below makes you lick your lips to catch every drop of sweetness? Leave a comment for a chance to win a paperback copy of my first book.
Look at the eyes on this guy! If his hair was curlier he would be Quill, hero of Wolf’s Prize.
This one is how I see Eddie, hero of my current work, Eddie’s Prize. He’s a pretty boy. Everyone calls him a “golden god” and isn’t he?
This is my take of Taye, hero of Sleeping With the Wolf.
If this guy had really long hair he would be Wolf’s Shadow, hero of Wolf’s Glory.
And this is Sky, hero of Wolf’s Princess. As a teenaged secondary character in Sleeping With the Wolf and Wolf’s Glory his hair is waist length. After he leaves the Wolf Clan to go live in the big city he might cut his hair. I haven’t decided. What do you think? Leave a comment letting me know your preference for Sky’s hair, or just on any of the eye candy I’ve posted and you’ll be entered in a drawing for a paperback copy of Sleeping With the Wolf. I will post the winner (and contact them by email) sunday night before 9pm central time.
Win a Kindle Fire! Holiday Blog Hop Coming Up!
Yep, it’s just about time for the annual December blog hop from Just Romance Me. Individual Authors and Bloggers will be giving out prizes like free books, free downloads, maybe some gift cards, and the Grand Prize will be a Kindle Fire loaded with more free books! Click here to have an emailed reminder about the blog hop sent to you!
13 Nominees For Best Paranormal Shifter Book of 2011
I am thrilled that my book, Wolf’s Glory, has been nominated by the reviewers at The Romance Reviews for Best Erotic Paranormal Romance in the Shifters category. This may not ever happen to me again, but at least i can always say that one of my books was once nominated to be best book of 2011 in its category. I don’t even hope to win. Do you see those other books and authors? I’m honored to be included with such wonderful authors. Here are 13 of them:
1. Alpha Wolf by Rebecca Royce
2. Big Bad Beast by Shelly Laurentson
3. Changeling Moon by Dani Harper
4. Cougar by Skhye Moncrief
5. Defying Pack Law & Delicate Freakn’ Flower by Eve Langlais
6. Eagle River Alpha by Becky Wilde
7. Hour of the Lion by Cherise Sinclair
8. Lifestyles of the Fey and Dangerous by Danica Avet
9. Moonlight Rapture by Lee Pearce
10. Navarro’s Promise by Lora Leigh
11. Never Cry Wolf by Cynthia Eden
12. The Alpha’s Fall by Kiera West
13. Wolf’s Glory by Maddy Barone
Wolf Tracker Cover Art
Artist Lyn Taylor has done it again! Another beautiful image for the cover of Wolf Tracker (formerly titled Tracking Tami). This is my third book so you might think the thrill would wear off, but nope. I’m positively giddy over it. Thank you Lyn!
The Starlander Frontier by Melisse Aires
The Starlander Frontier: Starlander’s Myth by Melisse Aires
Being a gryphon shifter has put widow Mrs Sophie Farrel and her small daughter Flora in jeopardy. A corrupt mining officials knows she can detect valuable cryst and plans to sell her to the highest bidder.
Congrats to the Winners!
Thank you to everyone who joined in on the Hard at Work Blog Hop! The winner of a download of my backlist is Christine Hirth and the winner of the paperback copy of Sleeping With the Wolf is Cheryl Lynne.
Congrats to the winners!
I will have some news to share about Tracking Tami in the next few days, and the first chapter will be sent out in the Newsletter next weekend.
Labor Day BlogHop
Welcome to Maddy Barone’s stop on the Labor Day Blog Hop. If you fall off the bus, you canget back on here.
I’m pretty sure everyone else has treated you to some delicious eyecandy in the form of men hard at work. You might not be doing any physical work but if you’re like me you’re feeling a bit sweaty by this point! Grab a cold drink and enjoy! My eyecandy is a trio of guys that look sorta like three heroes in upcoming books in my post-apocalyptic series, After the Crash.
The first is the hero of Tracking Tami. Tracker is a loner in the post-apocalyptic world I’ve created, famous for his tracking skill. When a woman runs away from her husbands they hire the Tracker to find her and bring her back. Half Lakota and half Norwegian, Tracker is one of the men of his Clan that doesn’t have a wolf. He is tall and slender, with white blond hair in two braids past his waist and a cool expressionless face that shows no emotion. But behind his stone cold face is a man who yearns for a wife of his own to love and cherish. When he catches up with Tami and finds out that her husbands abused her, he knows he can’t take her back. Like most of his kin he reveres women, and Tami captures his heart. Instead he brings her to his cousin’s werewolf pack for safekeeping, where he hopes her fear will lessen enough for him to be able to court her. This fellow’s hair isn’t hip length, like Tracker’s is, but it’s the right color and texture and the face is right.
The second is Blue Sky at Midday, the hero of Wolf’s Princess. When Sky was just barely seventeen, his wolf chose sixteen year old Rose Turner to be his mate. He courted her with all the fierce ardor of a teenaged Alpha werewolf. His cousin Taye and Taye’s mate Carla insisted he give Rose time to get settled in her new life. When his clumsy wooing failed to charm his reluctant new mate, Sky left the den to take a job in distant Omaha. After several years with no word from Sky, Rose decides she won’t wait for him. She wants a husband and children, so she goes husband shopping. But Sky hasn’t forgotten her and when he learns his neglected mate wants a husband he returns and carries her back to Omaha with him in triumph. But Sky isn’t the innocent naive teenager he was when he first came to Omaha, and Rose isn’t the unsettled and grieving plane crash survivor he left behind. Their story begins in Wolf’s Glory. This fellow’s hair is about right, but Sky has startlingly blue eyes and a dimple beside his mouth.
The third is the hero of Eddie’s Prize. Eddie Madison is, in the words of the heroine, a golden god. With his model-handsome face and physique, and as the son of the mayor and probable heir to his powerful position, Eddie is widely considered the biggest marital catch in the area. The few females in his town fall all over themselves to catch his attention. But his attention is focussed only on the new wife he won in a Bride Fight. Lisa is already half in love with him and his gentle eagerness to please her on their wedding night makes her believe they will have a happy marriage. But that changes when Eddie learns of her promiscuous past. His naive love turns to bitter rage. Lisa tries to convince him that her previous life is behind her now and she loves only him. Eddie draws away from his bride emotionally while struggling to believe her, but he can’t hide the accusation in his eyes or the mistrust he feels. Lisa puts up with his attitude for only so long.
For the blog hop, the prize I’m offering is a free download of either the first book in the series, Sleeping With the Wolf, or the second book, Wolf’s Glory. But I’m also offering a prize to one person who leaves a comment on this blog post. One commenter will win a paperback copy of Sleeping With the Wolf. Remember that anyone who has signed up for my newsletter will automatically be entered twice in the paperback giveaway. Good luck!
13 Items that COULD Show Up in a Swag Bag
I am preparing the Swag Bags for my street team. Sadly, I somehow deleted all their mailing addies so I had to send a quick email to them requesting that they re-send their mailing info. If you haven’t updated your newsletter profile, you can do so now. I plan to mail tomorrow night and perhaps send a few stragglers on Tuesday, after the American Labor Day weekend holiday.
And, hey, I’m participating in a Blog Hop this weekend. It goes from Saturday through Monday. A free download of either Sleeping With the Wolf or Wolf’s Glory will be the prize offered for the hop, plus I will be offering a paperback copy of Sleeping With the Wolf to one commenter here on my blog. So feel free to stop back this weekend!
Now for the 13 things that may be included in a Swag Bag.
1 & 2. A 5.5 x 8.25 inch postcard of the cover art for Sleeping With the Wolf and Wolf’s Glory.
3 & 4. A compact mirror and small tub of lip glass. These represent Lisa Anton, heroine of Eddie’s Prize. She readily admits she’s vain.
5 & 6. A magnet of the cover art for Sleeping With the Wolf and Wolf’s Glory.
7. A set of thin bangle bracelets. These represent Ellie, the heroine of Saving Ellie. Quill buys them for her, saying they are almost as delicate and beautiful as she is.
8 & 9. A set of Romance Trading Cards for each Sleeping With the Wolf and Wolf’s Glory.
10. A ring with a butterfly on it. Stag gives Sherry a ring like this. To him she’s as elusive as a butterfly he tries to catch, flitting away from him every time he gets close.
11. A charm bracelet. When Sky goes to Omaha, he sends Rose a charm for her bracelet every year on her birthday. At least he does for the first several years. Then the presents stop with no word from Sky.
12 & 13. One lucky person will receive a paperback copy of Sleeping With the Wolf and Wolf’s’ Glory! This person will be notified by email on Thursday night, so if you are not the winner, you can certainly leave a comment on the Blog Hop blog post to have a chance to win.
Which of these things do you like best? Do you have suggestions for what should go into the April 2012 Swag Bags?
Paperback Copy of Sleeping With the Wolf
I have had my first book, Sleeping With the Wolf, put into print through CreateSpace. It is available through Amazon, or I believe you could ask your local bookstore to order it for you. Book 2, Wolf’s Glory, should be available by August 29. You know, I really love the ease of digital books. But as an author I have to admit that it is fun to hold my book in my hands. Here is a picture of me, Tina Holland and Laura Ficek (two lovely ladies from my critique group) and I’m the short dark haired one holding the book 🙂
I’m also offering two copies in a giveaway on GoodReads, so if you’re a member there, go enter the giveaway. If you’re not a member you might like to look into it. It’s a fun placefor book lovers.
Goodreads Book Giveaway
by Maddy Barone
Giveaway ends August 31, 2011.
See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.