About Better When It Hurts by Skye Warren

A forbidden romance about pain that binds us together…

Five years ago we lived in the same house. He was the ultimate bad boy.

And my foster brother.

Now he’s back. Tougher, harder, meaner. All of it aimed at me, because I was the one who sent him away. It’s payback time. He wants his pound of flesh, and I am helpless to say no.

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“Better When it Hurts is an intense and heartbreakingly beautiful story. I couldn’t read fast enough to see what would happen next with Blue and Lola. A definite 5 star read for sure!”
~ Jenika Snow, USA Today bestselling author

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About Echoes by Therin Knite:

ECHOES IS $0.99 FROM 6/1 – 6/25

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Twenty-three-year-old Adem Adamend has it rough. His name is ludicrous. His friends are few. And the only thing his “kid genius” status has gotten him at the Interdistrict Bureau of Intelligence is a boatload of extra work with no credit in sight.

Then hotshot lawyer Victor Manson is burned to death in his own back yard, and Adem finds himself using his unique skills to piece together the strangest crime he’s ever seen. Strange because the only possible suspect Adem can pin the murder on…is a mythical beast. A dragon.

Before Adem can unravel the mystery of Manson’s death, the Bureau loses jurisdiction to the secretive EDPA, an organization that investigates weird and deadly events. But Adem isn’t one for giving up, so he takes it upon himself to delve deeper into EDPA’s machinations, into the series of unfortunate events that led to Manson’s demise.

And what he finds may change the way he views the world — and himself — forever.

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Therin Knite is a 23-year-old recent college graduate who occasionally writes speculative fiction and has the odd delusion of literary stardom. Knite lives in a humble little place known as the Middle of Nowhere, VA, where she spends most of her days reading books and writing what may possibly qualify as books.

Knite is a graduate of the College of William and Mary and holds a BBA in Finance and English. In August 2014, Knite began working as an underwriting analyst at a large insurance company, where she intends to stay for the foreseeable future.

Knite, who’s been writing seriously for eight years, is an avid book reviewer, blogger, and the sort of person who spends far too much time imagining epic sci-fi battles in her head. Knite intends to publish 3 to 4 novels per year, ever year, until she runs out of ideas…which is highly unlikely, so she’ll probably be writing forever.

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About Just in Time Cowboy by Jillie Rivers:

Time travel romance novel: free on Amazon from June 10 to June 11!

When a lightning strike on ancient Sioux holy ground sends mining engineer Kelsey Winter back in time to 1892 Wyoming, she turns to handsome, reckless cowboy Pete Jackson to help her find a way home.

Pete’s happy to help the strange woman in tight denim trousers, despite her odd, cautious ways, when he learns she can assist him with his newly discovered silver mine. But a deadly outlaw wants Pete’s silver, and a Sioux prophecy threatens Kelsey’s return home, and Pete and Kelsey must find a way past their differences, and the century between them, if they, and their growing love, will survive.

Just in Time Cowboy is the first in the Lost Mine series of time travel romance novels by Jillie Rivers (each novel can be enjoyed as a standalone story). Contains love scenes.

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Jillie Rivers got her first pair of cowgirl boots at the age of four, rode her first horse at the age of five, and wrote her first story at the age of six. She loves the American West and stories about time travel, and you can find both in her time travel romance novels Just in Time Cowboy and Second Time Cowboy.

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About Relentless:

Claire Nixon is a twenty-year-old college dropout with a secret. To Claire, Adam Parker is just another flirty customer at the cafe, until a chance encounter and seemingly innocent comment spurs a bet between them. The bet is simple: If Adam can get Claire to reveal the secret that made her drop out of college, she has to re-enroll. If he doesn’t succeed, she gets to keep her secret and he has to stop stalking her at the cafe.

Claire thinks she has this one in the bag. She’s perfected the art of forgetting her past. But she isn’t prepared for Adam’s relentless pursuit or for him to share his own secrets. And she’s definitely not prepared for her rock star ex, and her secret, to come banging down her door one year later.

Relentless will be on sale for 99¢ from 6/9/15 to 6/12/15.

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New York Times bestselling author Cassia Leo loves her coffee, chocolate, and margaritas with salt. When she’s not writing, she spends way too much time watching old reruns of Friends and Sex and the City. When she’s not watching reruns, she’s usually enjoying the California sunshine or reading.

She believes in true love and happy endings, and that the most palpable regrets come from watching those two things slip away. Her favorite books and movies are the ones that challenge her mentally and leave her emotionally scarred. Her family has declared her a “method writer” because she gets “in character” while writing. She believes becoming the character is the only way to truly understand him or her. Her dream is to one day score a record deal based on her awesome shower singing skills.

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About Weary of Running by Adrienne Morris:

When West Point Military Academy opens its doors to black candidate Milford Streeter in 1884, Cadet Buck Crenshaw’s moral ambivalence is tested. Will Buck keep his place in the yearling pecking order or throw it away on a stand for Streeter? After Cadet Streeter sacrifices Buck’s reputation to safeguard his own, Buck escapes to his sister Thankful at Fort Grant, Arizona and meets an old rival, William Weldon. Buck must make a decision about the sort of man he wants to become while witnessing the downward spiral of his favorite sister’s romance with a dashing army lieutenant. Weary of Running is about the dangers of moral ambivalence and the redeeming power of love and friendship in an imperfect world of mixed emotions and foolish decisions.

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Adrienne Morris lives in the country, milks goats, chases chickens and sometimes keeps the dogs off the table while writing books about the Weldon and Crenshaw families of Gilded Age Englewood, New Jersey. Her first novel, The House on Tenafly Road was selected as an Editors’ Choice Book and Notable Indie of the Year by The Historical Novel Society.

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About Medieval Future by Michael Anthony:

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Fans of George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones and Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time Series Will Love Medieval Future: The Last Dragon Throne
Who Will Protect the World From Its Guardians?
It has taken thousands of years for humanity to rebuild from the near total annihilation of an asteroid shower and it as at peace, for now. The Allfathers, an ancient sect long hidden in the shadows, prepares to unite the kingdoms under a single ruler to serve its own purposes. These self-appointed guardians have chosen Prince Daven Brookler to be their standard bearer.

But, Prince Daven has his own ideas. He refuses to be a puppet to the power behind the throne and has secretly given his heart to the fierce Eliza, a strong-willed woman with a secret of her own.

The union of Prince Daven and Eliza is too dangerous to the plans of others to be ignored. However, there is more at stake than just the lives of Prince Daven and Eliza. The entire world is set to explode in chaos as ancient conspiracies and greedy rivalries get ready to make their moves for global domination.

This pulse pounding epic fantasy is infused with political intrigue. Deceit and death lurk around every corner.

Can Prince Daven and Eliza save themselves? Will their union save their people or be the match that lights the world ablaze?

Filled with dragons and blades on every page, Medieval Future: The Last Dragon Throne will keep draw you into its tangled web and never let you go.

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Coming from a background of business, Michael Anthony excelled in the dot-com community, creating multiple companies and helping to establish the virtual office sector. For the present, he has set the fast-paced world of entrepreneurship aside and is focused on completing his first fantasy series of novels. Book one of Medieval Future was released in April 2015, with subsequent works on the way. Hailing originally from Brooklyn, New York, but now living in Dallas, Texas, Michael has a passion for science fiction, especially Star Trek and Game of Thrones. He is the proud owner of an extensive comic book collection, which he began as a boy of 12. In the few hours of spare time he allows himself, he enjoys reading and spending time with his son after school. As a side note: movies make him emotional, honesty is a fundamental of who he is, and sarcasm gets him into more trouble than he’d like to admit. Michael Anthony, the writer, began as a boy of 13 or 14 to share his imagination on paper. He still has those stories and would one day like to see them in print. Putting pen to paper is vital to Michael’s peace and daily harmony, like fuel to a fire it gives his life meaning and purpose. Watch for more from this aspiring author on the web and through his books – he has much to say, and he’s only just begun.

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About The 9-to-5 Escape Artist by Christy Hovey:

“The 9-to-5 Escape Artist will shift the way you view the standard way of working and making money, and help you live a ridiculously extraordinary life.” – Derek Murphy, CreativIndie

The 9-to-5 Escape Artist: A Startup Guide for Aspiring Lifestyle Entrepreneurs and Digital Nomads is for you if:

– You want to have more time to spend with loved ones and to pursue your hobbies and interests.

– You want to learn how to create a business that doesn’t require you to be tied to one location and can operate without you having to monitor it constantly.

– You want to market yourself or your business in this digital age without wasting time and resources.

– You’re interested in how you can travel the world while still earning a very lucrative income.

– You want to discover cutting-edge apps, software, and cloud-based resources to help you be more productive and make more money.

Christy Hovey shares practical solutions, tips, and tricks about how to make money on your own terms, in an entertaining and straightforward writing style. She shares easy-to-implement principles to design your business around your desired lifestyle and achieve the perfect work and life balance. Her engaging advice and proven recommendations are sure to speak directly to anyone who is dreaming of starting a location-indepedent business. Christy provides hundreds of useful resources to help you work smarter, not harder. If you like The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss, you’ll enjoy The 9-to-5 Escape Artist.

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Christy Hovey speaks, teaches, and writes on the topics of startups, productivity solutions, and social media marketing trends. She’s designed her work life around her home life and her goals and enjoys the flexibility of being a digital nomad and lifestyle entrepreneur.

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About Sweet Seduction Boxed Set (Thirteen NEW Erotic Romances by Bestselling Authors to Benefit Diabetes Research plus BONUS book!):

In 2014 A Sweet Life, the boxed set curated by Brenda Novak’s Online Auction for Diabetes Research, raised $100 000. This year we’re back for a second helping, and you can indulge too! this stunning limited edition collection features thirteen BRAND NEW contemporary romances by New York Times and USA Today Bestselling authors…

You can make a difference while you read! All proceeds from the sale of Sweet Seduction will be donated to the Diabetes Research Institute via Brenda Novak’s Online Auction for Diabetes Research.

Featuring a foreword and a bonus book by New York Times Bestselling Author Lisa Renee Jones.
Don’t forget to check out SWEET TALK and SWEET DREAMS, two more limited edition collections from Brenda Novak’s Online Auction for Diabetes Research, as well as LOVE THAT!, Brenda Novak’s new cookbook with Jan Coad, and SAFE HAVEN, a special edition novel from Lauren Hawkeye… read and help the fight against diabetes!

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Author Bio:
Lexi Blake:

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Lexi Blake lives in North Texas with her husband, three kids, and the laziest rescue dog in the world. She began writing at a young age, concentrating on plays and journalism. It wasn’t until she started writing romance that she found success. She likes to find humor in the strangest places. Lexi believes in happy endings no matter how odd the couple, threesome or foursome may seem.

JS Cooper

J. S. Cooper was born in London, England and moved to Florida her last year of high school. After completing law school at the University of Iowa (from the sunshine to cold) she moved to Los Angeles to work for a Literacy non profit as an Americorp Vista. She then moved to New York to study the History of Education at Columbia University and took a job at a workers rights non profit upon graduation.

Nicole Edwards

New York Times bestselling author Nicole Edwards launched her professional writing career in July of 2012. Having been an avid reader all of her life and a huge fan of creative writing, it seemed the likely path for her to take. Since then, she has released fifteen books and has no plans to stop. As her full-time career/hobby, Nicole writes steamy contemporary and erotic romances.

Nicole is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author who was born and raised in Texas. Married with three kids and four dogs, she has plenty of interaction to keep her imagination brewing. Her books have been featured in USA Today’s Happy Ever After segment as well as Indie Reader’s best seller list. She has forged her way as an independent author.

Although she has a bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, she prefers to be hiding out in her writing cave, talking to the fictional characters that have built up in her head over the years.

When she isn’t writing or plotting her next book (sometimes translated to “playing on Facebook”), Nicole loves to read and spend time with her family and her dogs.

Megan Hart

Megan Hart writes books. Some of them use bad words, but most of the other words are okay. She lives in the deep, dark woods of Pennsylvania and has published in almost every genre of fiction including mainstream, horror, fantasy, science fiction, romance and perhaps most notably, erotic fiction. Her work has won awards and been on more than one of those fancy lists, and yet she still has to do the laundry and make dinner while figuring out how best to torture her next set of characters. Find out more at MeganHart.com, Facebook.com/MeganHart or Twitter.com/Megan_Hart.

Julia Kent

New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Julia Kent writes romantic comedy with an edge, and new adult books that push contemporary boundaries. From billionaires to BBWs to rock stars, Julia finds a sensual, goofy joy in every book she writes, but unlike Trevor from Random Acts of Crazy, she has never kissed a chicken.

She loves to hear from her readers by email at jkentauthor@gmail.com, on Twitter @jkentauthor, and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/jkentauthor.

Mari Carr

Writing a book was number one on Mari Carr’s bucket list. Now a New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller, Mari’s computer is jammed full of stories — novels, novellas, short stories and dead-ends.

Visit Mari’s website at www.maricarr.com.

Karen Erickson

USA Today bestselling author Karen Erickson writes what she loves to read – sexy contemporary romance. Published since 2006, she’s a native Californian who lives in the foothills below Yosemite with her husband and children. She’s also known as NYT and USA Today bestselling author Monica Murphy.

Emma Hart

By day, New York Times and USA Today bestselling sexy romance author Emma Hart dons a cape and calls herself Super Mum to two beautiful little monsters. By night, she drops the cape, pours a glass of whatever she fancies – usually wine – and writes books.

Emma is working on Top Secret projects she will share with her readers at every available opportunity. Naturally, all Top Secret projects involve a dashingly hot guy who likes to forget to wear a shirt, a sprinkling (or several) of hold-onto-your-panties hot scenes, and addictive, all-consuming love that will keep you up all night.

She likes to be busy – unless busy involves doing the dishes, but that seems to be when all the ideas come to life. This has recently expanded to including vacuuming, a tedious job made much more exciting by the voices in her head. Naturally, it also takes twice as long to complete.

Julie Kenner

J. Kenner (aka Julie Kenner) is the New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, Wall Street Journal and International bestselling author of over seventy novels, novellas and short stories in a variety of genres.

Though known primarily for her award-winning and international bestselling erotic romances (including the Stark and Most Wanted series) that have reached as high as #2 on the New York Times bestseller list, JK has been writing full time for over a decade in a variety of genres including paranormal and contemporary romance, “chicklit” suspense, urban fantasy, Victorian-era thrillers (coming soon), and paranormal mommy lit.

Her foray into the latter, Carpe Demon: Adventures of a Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom by Julie Kenner, has been consistently in development in Hollywood since prior to publication. Most recently, it has been optioned by Warner Brothers Television for development as series on the CW Network with Alloy Entertainment producing.

JK has been praised by Publishers Weekly as an author with a “flair for dialogue and eccentric characterizations” and by RT Bookclub for having “cornered the market on sinfully attractive, dominant antiheroes and the women who swoon for him.” A three time finalist for Romance Writers of America’s prestigious RITA award, JK took home the first RITA trophy awarded in the category of erotic romance in 2014 for her novel, Claim Me (book 2 of her Stark Trilogy).

Her books have sold well over a million copies and are published in over over twenty countries.

In her previous career as an attorney, JK worked as a clerk on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and practiced primarily civil, entertainment and First Amendment litigation in Los Angeles and Irvine, California, as well as in Austin, Texas. She currently lives in Central Texas, with her husband, two daughters, and two rather spastic cats.

Elizabeth Grace

Elisabeth Grace is the author of the New Adult Limelight series as well as the Erotic Romance serial, Indiscretion. She lives outside of Toronto with her husband, two small children, and killer cat. She has a soft spot for happily ever afters and a hot spot for alpha males. If she’s not busy crafting the perfect male specimen at her keyboard, you’ll find her with a handful or popcorn or chocolate, taking in the latest Real Housewives drama or seeing what trouble Jax has got himself into on Sons Of Anarchy.

Lauren Hawkeye

New York Time and USA Today bestselling author Lauren Hawkeye never imagined that she’d wind up telling stories for a living… though when she looks back, it’s easy to see that she’s the only one who is surprised. Always “the kid who read all the time”, Lauren made up stories about her favorite characters once she’d finished a book… and once spent an entire year narrating her own life internally. No, really. But where she was just plain odd before publication, now she can at least claim to have an artistic temperament.

Lauren lives in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta, Canada with her husband, toddler, pit bull and idiot cat, though they do not live in an igloo, nor do they drive a dogsled. In her nonexistent spare time Lauren can be found knitting, reading anything she can get her hands on, or sweating her way through spin class. She loves to hear from her readers!

Nina Lane

New York Times& USA Today bestselling author Nina Lane writes hot, sexy romances and spicy erotica. Originally from California, she holds a PhD in Art History and an MA in Library and Information Studies, which means she loves both research and organization. She also enjoys traveling and thinks St. Petersburg, Russia is a city everyone should visit at least once. Although Nina would go back to college for another degree because she’s that much of a bookworm and a perpetual student, she now lives the happy life of a full-time writer.

Roni Loren

Roni wrote her first romance novel at age fifteen when she discovered writing about boys was way easier than actually talking to them. Since then, her flirting skills haven’t improved, but she likes to think her storytelling ability has. After earning a master’s degree in social work from LSU, she worked in a mental hospital, counseled birthmothers as an adoption coordinator, and did management recruiting in her PJs. But she always returned to writing.

Though she’ll forever be a New Orleans girl at heart, she now lives in Dallas with her husband and son. If she’s not working on her latest sexy story, you can find her reading, watching reality television, or indulging in her unhealthy addiction to rockstars concerts. She is the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author of The Loving on the Edge series.

Avery Aster

New York Times, USA Today bestselling author Avery Aster pens THE MANHATTANITES, a modern romance series of melodramas multilayered on love, friendship, scandal, and drama to the hilt, and it’s juicy prequel companion series THE UNDERGRAD YEARS. As a resident of New York’s Upper East Side and a graduate from New York University, Avery gives readers an inside look at the city’s glitzy nightlife, socialite sexcapades and tall tales of the über-rich and ultra-famous. “I write about what I see in my metropolis that never sleeps–beautiful people on the quest for a passionate thrill,” Avery says. “By and large, my characters are ripped straight from the headlines, speak their minds and always get what they want.”

Lisa Renee Jones

New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones is the author of the highly acclaimed INSIDE OUT SERIES, and is now in development by Suzanne Todd (Alice in Wonderland, Austin Powers, Must Love Dogs) for cable TV. In addition, her Tall, Dark and Deadly series and The Secret Life of Amy Bensen series, both spent several months on a combination of the NY Times and USA Today lists.

Since beginning her publishing career in 2007, Lisa has published more than 40 books translated around the world. Booklist says that Jones suspense truly sizzles with an energy similar to FBI tales with a paranormal twist by Julie Garwood or Suzanne Brockmann.

Prior to publishing, Lisa owned multi-state staffing agency that was recognized many times by The Austin Business Journal and also praised by Dallas Women Magazine. In 1998 LRJ was listed as the #7 growing women owned business in Entrepreneur Magazine.

Lisa loves to hear from her readers. You can reach her at www.lisareneejones.com

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About The Counterfeiter-Catching Cat:

Autumn has finally come to the small town of Ashbrook, New Hampshire. Beatrice Young, the sixty-two-year-old owner of the Cozy Cat Café, is busy slinging coffee for tourists. Yet when her ever-perceptive Maine Coon cat, Hamish, sniffs out a fake twenty-dollar bill, the hunt is on to find its maker. Her search draws out a dangerous killer and in the end, it’s up to her feline companions to find the clues that will keep her safe, put the culprit behind bars, and restore order to Ashbrook once more.

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Alannah Rogers is a retired librarian living in rural New Hampshire. She has three cats, all named after authors: Charlie, Wilkie, and Jane.

Alannah is an obsessive knitter and Scrabble player who loves a strong cup of English Breakfast tea. She makes a mean strawberry rhubarb pie and enjoys tinkering in her garden when time permits.

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About The House on Tenafly Road by Adrienne Morris:

When morphine-addicted Civil War veteran John Weldon marries into the comfortably suburban McCullough family on the eve of Reconstruction and the Indian Wars, life gets complicated. How will Weldon hide his addiction from the family he resents and admires, keep his standing in the army and find the strength to survive the tragedies that come with loving others? John Weldon spends a lifetime journeying across the frontier only to find that he already has a home.

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Adrienne Morris lives in the country, milks goats, chases chickens and sometimes keeps the dogs off the table while writing books about the Weldon and Crenshaw families of Gilded Age Englewood, New Jersey. Her first novel, The House on Tenafly Road was selected as an Editors’ Choice Book and Notable Indie of the Year by The Historical Novel Society.

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About The Phone and Other Short Stories:

This books should make you go ‘What the…?” in a good way. It’s a social commentary on digitally abandoned children, senile old men left to their own devices, desperate young super-egos trying to live forever or get out of this world as fast as they can. All this and it’s funny too!

Gary Paul Bryant will wheel your gurney down the paranormal corridors of Life Everlasting, whether you’re willing or not. A must-read short story collection for vivisectionist aficionados, fantasy enthusiasts and all the rest of us hanging on to dear life.

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Gary Paul Bryant published his first short fiction in 1992, titled The First Ride: The Real Story of Santa Claus, which is also included in his most recent collection. Comic and whimsical in his tone, Bryant’s is well known for transporting readers into enthralling paranormal realms. He is also an award winning musician, songwriter and composer, who has authored hundreds of songs, with 21 CD releases at a variety of outlets including CDBaby.com, Amazon.com and iTunes.com.

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About Long Lost:

Charlotte Hayes has waited her entire life to meet her long-lost half-sister. Though Jen Hayes seems to be everything Charlotte hoped for in a sister, the truth of Jen’s past and her menacing fiancé shatter Charlotte’s once sought out dream.

Dragged into the dangerous world of drugs and prostitution by her sister, Charlotte is manipulated into becoming an unknowing pawn for an FBI investigation. With more than just her life on the line, Charlotte fights back, even after the ropes are cut.

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I’m the kid that hid under the covers with a flashlight, reading until far past my bedtime. I’m also the kid that sometimes had a pencil and paper under those covers.

My first ‘published’ writing was a poem I wrote about my deceased father. Or maybe it was a sea animal joke in the local paper. Either way, it was some time in elementary school.

I’ve traded the flashlights and notebooks for a laptop and smartphone, although I still do some of my best reading and writing planning under the covers (don’t want to disturb the husband after all). I’ve got about a million plot lines in my head and only 24 hours in a day. There’s no time for sleeping.

I write suspense novels that are sometimes gritty, occasionally funny (intentional or not, you decide), and chock full of chatty characters who occasionally get willingly or unwillingly laid. I believe in relatively happy-ish endings, cause I’m a sap like that. I also swear a shit ton. I try to keep the f-bombs off the interwebs, but the books are fair game. You’ve been warned.

When I’m not writing or thinking about writing (okay fine, I’m always thinking about it), I enjoy long walks in the woods, terrible Netflix movies, and of course making animal noises and having dance parties with my daughter. My favorite place to read is on the treadmill and I haven’t thanked my mom enough for the Kindle she got me a few years ago.

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