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Win a Free Download of Wolf’s Glory!

Enter to win a free download of Wolf’s Glory, book 2 in the After the Crash series. Or if you haven’t read book 1 yet, you can enter to win a free download of Sleeping with the Wolf!

 

After the Crash Book 2: Wolf’s Glory will be released on Monday, May 30 fromLiquid Silver Books! In honor of my new release I’m holding a contest. One winner will receive a free download of Wolf’s Glory and another will receive a download of Sleeping with the Wolf.

The Beta by Annie Nicholas

I’ve the read the first two of this series and am thrilled the next is out! Take a look.
The Beta book 3 of The Vanguards is released!

Three days of hell, in charge, and running out of antacids.
 

 

As the pack’s Beta, Robert needs to watch over the Vasi werewolf pack for a few days. He hates the responsibility, but his job is to dissolve any problems while his alpha honeymoons. Nevertheless, trouble comes to town and her name is Esther. She’s beguiling, beautiful and picks his pocket. Although Robert doesn’t trust her, he still wants to possess her.
 
Esther arrived in Chicago with the intention of slaying a vampire named Daedalus. While trailing her quarry, she encounters Robert who unhinges her world. He doesn’t know her trade, and she doesn’t know his connection to the vampire. Disturbed by her attraction to this unusual werewolf, she can’t decide which prey to hunt. The one who’s stolen her heart or the one who’ll fill her bank account.
 
Hot graphic werewolf sex, growing body parts, and one pissed off Nosferatu.
Want a chance to win a copy? I holding a week long contest at this link.
Annie Nicholas

May Updates

I am really looking forward to going to Lori Foster’s Reader & Author Get Together  in Cincinnati the first weekend in June. I’ve been collecting goodies to put into little gift bags to be handed out at the conference. So far I have my Romance Trading Cards, some magnets, some chocolates, and I’m trying my hand at making some rings. We’ll see how many turn out!

 What else has been going on in my life these days? A lot. Everything except writing, it seems.

My mom had to have another surgery on her elbow. It was supposed to be sometime in May, but they moved it to the Thursday before Easter. I spent a good deal of that week with her at the hospital and  at home. Then, the following Saturday was Silks & Needles, the SCA event I was autocrating and teaching two classes at. Plus I had two lovely ladies from Winnepeg staying with me, so I had to clean, right? In between all that, I was working on the edits for Wolf’s Glory. I was already delayed in that because of the pneumonia that struck me down at the end of March. I’m still not entirely recovered from that.  Next weekend is Crown. Thankfully, I am not in charge of anything for that. I am having a crasher stay, but she’s an old friend, so I think she can suck it up and ignore the dust and c at hair. I am also helping Isabella sew garb for Quest For Camelot. She has such an elegant figure that it is fun to sew for her. But what this all amounts to is poor Tami is still languishing away at the den with Carla and Taye instead of getting it on with her hero.

Actually, I’ve completely neglected doing any housework so I could write. I wrote quite a bit this weekend. Tami has proposed to her strong, silent-type shy hero and he is currently riding through a snow storm to fetch a priest, keeping himself warm by daydreaming about their upcoming wedding night. Tracker is full of contrasts. He’s tough and merciless to those he considers enemies (which would be anyone who hurts Tami in any way), but he’s careful and gentle with Tami. There is one scene where he kills some men who are trying to capture Tami, and callously leaves them where they fell. But in a later scene, she cries and he is absolutely wretched, because he wants to comfort her, but is too shy to do more than hover anxiously and offer her a scrap of fabric to wipe her nose. I love Tracker.

I won’t have much chance to write this week either. I’m taking mom shopping tomorrow, sewing with Isabella on Tuesday, I have church Wednesday, my local Writers’ Guild meeting on Thursday, Friday Sete comes and I should do at least some cleaning, and Sat and Sun are Northshield Crown Tourney. If only I didn’t have to work a day job! 🙂 I’m expecting the final line edits for Wolf’s Glory around the end of the week, so the following week will be filled by the last edits. After I turn those in the book should be out in a few weeks later. Maybe mid-June? Or earlier? Fingers crosssed!

Viking Wire Weaving Jewelry

A lovely handmade necklace and matching bracelet made of sterling silver wire in the simple and elegant style popular in northern Europe from 700 to 1100 AD. This was made to be a prize in the Not Going to Conference Conference on Romance Divas. Or maybe it will go to Diva Fest at nationals. 🙂 I’ll let Cup decide.

The Weaverfields Heir by David Bridger

A new release – THE WEAVERFIELDS HEIR by David Bridger

When Kate Richards inherits a dilapidated English estate from her estranged grandfather, she finds herself thrust into a world full of hostile new family members, mysterious Romany tenants, and strange visions of “the net” – an invisible web that connects everything in the universe. Kate thinks she’s losing her sanity, but the odd family stories and disturbing tales of locals convince her that something sinister is going on at Weaverfields, while the inescapable pull of the net draws her deeper into the secrets of her new home.

But with those secrets come danger, and an old evil that refuses to let go of its hold on the net – or on Weaverfields. The only person who seems to understand is Joe, a Romany street artist with his own ties to the land. Kate and Joe must master the net before the past intrudes on the present… in very ugly ways…

Read an excerpt and buy The Weaverfields Heir at Etopia Press.

Cover Art For Wolf’s Glory is Here!

Here’s the cover art for After the Crash, Book 2: Wolf’s Glory.  I fell in love with this the first time I saw it. The artist, Lyn Taylor, did an amazing job. I got word from my editor that she will send me my first round of edits for Wolf’s Glory over the weekend, so I’ve been working hard on Tracking Tami. I just wanted you all to get a sneak peek at Glory in all her gothy goodness 🙂

Romance Trading Cards

 

Hey, all you romance readers, here’s something fun for you!

Romance Trading Cards are the freaking awesome idea of Jeannie Lin, Amanda Berry and some other authors. On the front of the card is an image of a book cover, and the back has somne info about the book or featured character. Who knows, these might be collectors items in the future. Do you know how much some rare baseball cards go for these days? Well, okay, maybe they won’t ever be that popular … But this is wicked cool. The idea is that authors will bring them along to conventions like Romantic Times and RWA, and other conferences for people to collect. I’ll have mine at Lori Foster’s Reader Writer Get Together. Kim Killion ofwww.hotdamndesigns.com did mine for me (since I’m so totally clueless when it comes to graphic art type things). Thank God for Kim and her talent.

I should be getting them in a few weeks or a month. If you would like one and are not going to Lori Foster’s get together, you can email me atmaddybarone@gmail.com and I’ll get one mailed out to you.

To see the ever growing list of authors who are involved with this and their cards, go towww.romancetradingcards.com
Isn’t this great?

Congrats to the Winner!

The Spread the Love Valentine’s Day Blog Hop was a lot of fun. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the snippets, excerpts and short stories along the way. Many thanks to Alanna and Michael for setting it up, and thanks to Mr. Catherine A Noone for supplying the romantic photo that inspired so many of us.  Thank you to each of you who hopped on the tour bus and visited our blogs and left so many  lovely comments. I hope we can do this again soon!

The winner of the download of Sleeping With the Wolf was Falyn D. Congrats, Falyn!

Valentine’s Blog Hop

Welcome to the Valentines Blog Hop!

If you happen to fall off the tour bus, you can hop back on here.

I hope you’ve been enjoying the various snippets and excerpts we’re posting for this blog hop. I love doing these. I was  a reader long before I was a writer and I look forward to getting to know writers and finding more books to add to my To-Be-Read pile.

My excerpt is part of a scene that will appear in the next After the Crash book, and may be the intro to the 5th book in the series. Rose Turner was not quite sixteen when her plane crashed fifty years in the future. There was no electricity or cars or other technology in this future, and women were scarce. What the future did have was men that could turn into wolves. And one of them, a teenager just a little older than she, had claimed her for his mate. This excerpt takes place a month after they first met. Their story will take place seven years in the future. Sky and Rose have quite a bit of growing up to do before they can truly fall in love with each other. The first book in the series, Sleeping With the Wolf  (the story of how Taye won Carla’s love), is the prize I’m offering.

Don’t forget to join us at 6pm Central Time (7pm Eastern time) for a chat at Gem Sivad’s chat room.

            Rose left her room in the den to head to supper. Her stomach dropped when she saw Sky leaning against the wall, obviously waiting for her. He was wearing only a pair of worn out jeans, which was more than most of the wolves here wore. His bare chest was overly developed for a seventeen-year-old, Rose sniffed to herself. For just one second, she wanted to step back into her room and slam the door shut. Taye, the Pack Alpha, had forbidden Sky to set foot in her room; it was the only place she was safe from him. Not that Sky would hurt her. No, of course he wouldn’t, but ever since he had announced that his wolf had chosen her for his mate she had felt like a rabbit he was hunting.

It wasn’t supposed to be like this. In her world she would have been dating the speech and debate team captain, not avoiding a teenaged werewolf who had all the social graces of a caveman.

 The hallway was too narrow for her to walk past him without coming within arm’s reach of him. Should she go back into her room and hope he went away? Sky didn’t give her a chance to retreat. With the unnatural speed and grace that all the wolves had, he bounded forward and snatched her arm. “You sat next to that Kearney man,” he accused in a snarl.

“I didn’t sit next to him. He sat next to me! Not that it’s any of your business who I sit by.”

“It is. You’re my mate,” he said, hard and furious.

“No!” Rose shouted, trying to free her arm. “I’m not your mate! Even if we weren’t too young, you couldn’t pay me enough to be your mate.”

Sky’s voice rose to a muted roar. “You are my mate, and I’ll kill the next man who touches you.”

“Could you please be a little more dramatic?”

Her sarcasm rolled right off his bare broad shoulders. His eyes, unearthly blue in his dark face, shimmered like a cat’s. “You shouldn’t play with me, mate.”

“I’m not playing.” Rose tried to smooth her voice to something calm and reasonable. “I’m only sixteen. You’re just seventeen. Carla said you should leave me alone until I’m eighteen. Then we can … discuss our relationship.”

With a strength that no seventeen year old should have, Sky pushed her against the wall and held her there. “Why should we wait? We’re old enough.”

Rose yelled, “Let me go! Stop! Help!”

The strength of his body pressing against her almost made her forget how the scent of him always made her knees weak. He had her sandwiched between his near-naked body and the wall, holding her hands above her head, so even if her knees did buckle she couldn’t fall. She stared wide-eyed into his face for a long second and then he was kissing her savagely in spite of her attempts to jerk her head away.

“No,” she tried to say, but his mouth smothered her voice. And … It smothered her resistance too. His mouth was rough on hers but hot too, and his weight was pressing on that one spot that made her want to squirm even closer. She dimly felt his hands roam the collar of her shirt.

Then out of the corner of her eye she saw movement. Taye was coming up the hallway like a thunderstorm rolling across the sky. He tore Sky away from Rose and threw him into the opposite wall. Rose gasped, trying to control her shudders. Of relief? Or just reaction to Sky’s  forceful lovemaking?

The hallway was filling with  wolves. Carla pushed her way to the front of the crowd to stare with horrified eyes at Sky. Sky was half-crouched against the wall, staring defiantly at Taye. And Taye—easy-going Taye—was standing tall and unmoving, putting out infuriated Alpha vibes that made Rose want to cringe and thank God it was directed at Sky instead of her. Her hand shook as she wiped at the tears she hadn’t known she’d shed.

“Sky, explain yourself,” Taye demanded.

For another second Sky held Taye’s eyes. Then his challenge wavered, his eyes dropped and he tilted back his head to show his throat.

“Explain yourself,” Taye said again, more mildly. “We do not ever hurt our mates.”

Sky slid a yearning look at Rose before answering. “I only did what the man in the book you gave me did to his woman when she defied him. I held Rose so she couldn’t get away and I kissed her. I was going to tear her shirt off like the man in the book did, but I didn’t want to ruin her shirt by ripping it so I tried to take it off her gently—but she started to cry. That’s not what happened in the book!” He glared accusingly at Taye.

“Taye!” Carla’s voice was exasperated. “You gave him one of your romance novels to use as a game plan for seducing Rose?”

Sky said defensively, “It worked for the Chief. You fell in love with him right away.”

“He never held me down and tried to force me … Oh, never mind! Those books are a lot of fun to read, but they’re not real. Women don’t really want to be treated like that.”

Now Taye was frowning. “But last night—“

“Sh!” hissed Carla, blushing. She cleared her throat and shot a self-conscious look around at all the interested faces in the hallway. “After a woman gets to know a man she might—might!—enjoy pretending sometimes. But not right away. In the beginning a man should bring a woman roses. When he’s sure she’s the right one, he should get down on one knee and beg her to love him.”

Wolves were staring at Carla, fascinated. Taye looked horror-struck. “You wanted me to beg you to love me?”

Carla curled her mouth into a tiny smile, looked her tall muscular mate up and down, and shook her head.  “I didn’t need to beg you to love me. I already knew you did.”

Taye took her hand and pressed  a kiss to her palm. “I loved you the moment I first saw you. You will never need to beg me for anything.”

Sky straightened up from his crouch with a sound of disgust. He leveled a glare at Rose, who folded her arms and said loudly, “I will never beg you for anything.”

“We’ll see about that,” he snapped back.

Taye turned around, the tender lover gone and the furious Alpha back. He hoisted Sky up by one hand under his arm and dragged him down the hall. “You have a lot to learn about being a mate and until you show some sign of learning it, you will stay away from Rose.”

Rose let out a shaky breath, finally relaxing. But when Sky looked back at her she froze again. His long black hair swaying over his back was as beautiful as a woman’s, but the heat in those blue eyes was all male. It promised her that this was not over.

Valentine Blog Hop

Hey, everyone, come visit the http://justromance.me/ romance blog hop starting tomorrow.  Win books! Read excerpts and short short stories by great romance writers.  If you’ve read Sleeping with the Wolf, you might like a little sneak peek at what going on with Carla and Taye a month after their book ended. If you haven’t read and you think you might like to, you can be entered to win a free download just for going on the blog hop.

Looking forward to lots of fun visitors tomorrow!