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Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Marketing for Romance Writers Books Hooks

It's Wednesday and I'm glad to be participating in the new Marketing for Romance Writers Books Hooks mini hop! (see linky list below) The deal is to post 6-8 sentences from your novel. This time I'm offering a bit more from my award-winning Victorian polyamorous romance written with an unusual touch of reader-interactive art history: The Witchy Wolf and the Wendigo. (book 1 in the series ~ Ashkewheteasu)

Setting up the scene: His purpose gone, his solitude pointless, Ash begs the Manitou to let him die. Here he revisits the destruction of his wife's burial mound and suddenly wonders if other destroyed mounds had immortal guardians like him just hoping to die.

My 8:

He’d seen buildings go where other mounded graves had been. The thought made him pause.

Were there guardians at those graves, or were those mounds merely places of clan recognition? In his time, not all mounds in the earth were graves. In fact, most were made to celebrate the spirits of the place the clans dwelled in. He closed his eyes and saw them: otter mounds, bear mounds, and flying goose mounds for the Otter, Bear, and Goose clans. His people had belonged to the Bear clan — the people of the forests. Ayanna's people were the Otter clan — the water people.

Learn about the actual urban legend that inspired this story here

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What's up on Wednesday?

A NEW 100 Things Blog Challenge & Symbols in Literature
http://calliopeswritingtablet.com/

Horny Hump Day
http://theancillarymuse.blogspot.com/

First Kiss Wednesday *open promo*Come share your best 300-word kiss today!
http://exquisitequills.blogspot.com/

Hump Day Hook
http://calliopesotherwritingtablet.blogspot.com/

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You'll LOVE Reading Rose!

Main Blog:
Subscribe on the Main blog for interesting posts, updates & more. http://calliopeswritingtablet.com/

Satellite Blogs:
http://calliopeswritingtablet.blogspot.com/
http://calliopesotherwritingtablet.blogspot.com/
http://theancillarymuse.blogspot.com/

Exquisite Quills:
Several authors & their romances.
From sweet to scorching.

Discover our author promo opportunities
http://exquisitequills.blogspot.com/

Exquisite Quills Recycled Reviews
A place for your old stars to shine.http://eq-recycled-reviews.blogspot.com/
Exquisite Quills Yahoo Group: Open to readers and writers
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExquisiteQuills/

Romance Books '4' Us:
I blog the 4th of every month
Many great topics there all month long.
http://romancebooks4us.blogspot.com/

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Rose-Anderson
I'll happily sign all ebooks with Authorgraph.

Social Media:
I'm everywhere. Come say hi. I'm busy, but I'll eventually follow back.
Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/FollowTheMuse/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/roseanderson_
Tumblr: http://author-roseanderson.tumblr.com/
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com//MusesWritingTablet
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rose.anderson.7524
Author Pages etc:
I have many author's pages and static pages around the web. Too many to list here! If you see me, do say hello.

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Marketing for Romance Writers Books Hooks

First my 8, then details follow:

Leading her to our bed, I sat with her there, holding her hands for a time; more to steady mine than hers, truth be told.

Seeing she needed an answer from me, I brushed back her curls and took her face between my hands. Drawing close, I kissed her. It began as a tentative touch of my lips to hers. But her mouth was soft and pliant and, unlike my male lovers, her chin and upper lip were void of rasping whiskers. This discovery alone caused my kiss to firm, and I pressed into it wanting it all. Slanting over her, I dragged my kiss back and forth forcing her mouth to open to me. Her sweet champagne tongue coiled with mine hesitantly at first, but this grew bolder the more familiar our lips and tongues became.

Setting up the scene: Newlyweds Ellie and Nicolas come to a point of no return that shatters all they thought they knew of themselves. After this moment, they'll never be the same.

"The lush language and wonderful descriptions drew me in and kept me spellbound as I read the progressively adventurous escapades of Luca, Nicholas and Ellie. The art history was obviously well researched and the tension in the plot deepened upon the trio's arrival in Italy. I was intrigued by the first person male point of view. A beautifully-written story."
~A Reader

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Sample all of my love stories, including
Loving Leonardo & Loving Leonardo - The Quest for free
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/333971

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What's up on Wednesday?

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You'll LOVE Reading Rose!

Main Blog:
Subscribe on the Main blog for interesting posts, updates & more. http://calliopeswritingtablet.com/

Satellite Blogs:
Always lots of action on these blogs!
http://calliopeswritingtablet.blogspot.com/
http://calliopesotherwritingtablet.blogspot.com/
http://theancillarymuse.blogspot.com/

Exquisite Quills:
Several authors & their romances.
From sweet to scorching.

Discover our author promo opportunities
http://exquisitequills.blogspot.com/

Exquisite Quills Recycled Reviews
A place for your old stars to shine.http://eq-recycled-reviews.blogspot.com/
Exquisite Quills Yahoo Group: Open to readers and writers
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExquisiteQuills/

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Marketing for Romance Writers - Books Hooks

It's Wednesday and I'm glad to be participating in the new Marketing for Romance Writers Books Hooks mini hop! (see linky list below) The deal is to post 6-8 sentences from your novel. This time I'm offering a bit from my award-winning Victorian polyamorous romance written with an unusual touch of reader-interactive art history: (book 1 in the series) Loving Leonardo.

First my 8, then details follow:

When in the presence of true beauty, my mind often imagines the person unclothed as the artists of the ages might have seen him. Sitting at my table was a statue carved in marble by Gian Lorenzo Bernini; an artist known for his remarkable ability to capture the essence of a narrative moment. And I found Luca Franco to be exactly that — a moment indelibly captured in time — a moment of meeting the mind could revisit in its entirety.

From every angle, he was beautifully made: black-haired, of medium build, and physically fit. He possessed a warm hue to his skin, his lineage no doubt stamped centuries past by the darker Moors or Turks. In startling contrast, and quite handsomely framed by black lashes, he had striking eyes the color one might see in a shadow falling across snow — not quite sky blue nor exactly steel gray, but a blending of the two in gradated rings.

I rose to shake his hand and felt the unmistakable current of compatibility. If this man weren’t forward in his mutual attraction, it was there nonetheless.

Setting up the scene: Ellie and Nicolas meet Luca aboard ship. He leaves quite the impression on both of them. This is Luca as seen through Nicolas' eyes.

Here's the blurb

FREE>>>>>>>>FREE<<<<<<<<FREE>>>>>>>>FREE<<<<<<<<FREE

Sample all of my love stories, including
Loving Leonardo & Loving Leonardo - The Quest for free
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/333971

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What's up on Wednesday?

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You'll LOVE Reading Rose!

Exquisite Quills:
Several authors & their romances.
From sweet to scorching.

Discover our author promo opportunities
http://exquisitequills.blogspot.com/

Exquisite Quills Recycled Reviews
A place for your old stars to shine.http://eq-recycled-reviews.blogspot.com/
Exquisite Quills Yahoo Group: Open to readers and writers
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExquisiteQuills/

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Marketing for Romance Writers' Books Hooks!

First my 8, then details follow:

At twenty-three, black-haired, amber-eyed Beatrix MacCodrum was as beautiful as the rest of her kind. She was also a born homemaker, as the Selkie legends foretold. A Selkie woman would keep a lovely home if a man were lucky enough to find and wed one. No doubt this was true for Beatrix, though as yet unwed, she never lacked hopeful suitors. It was only the four of them now in the big house, and called between the sea and land like they were, her brothers came and went.
But not Bea. She’d been caught in a herring net as a child and it nearly killed her. Restless or not, since that incident, Bea preferred the land.

Setting up the scene: Bea's intro. Her brother Alex has just come home after months at sea. She'll soon discover he's fallen under a potentially deadly charm.

Here's the blurb~

"With the love and humor, there's danger which is written so well and culminates in a wonderful, surprise ending. Enchanted Skye is an outstanding book. "

~Author Jane Leopold Quin

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Sample all of my love stories, including Enchanted Skye, for free
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/333971

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What's up on Wednesday?

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First Kiss Wednesday ~

Several promotional opportunities for romance authors can be found on my Exquisite Quills group blog. Come meet the founding authors and our guests.
http://exquisitequills.blogspot.com/

Exquisite Quills Yahoo Group

First Kiss Wednesday ~ share your best 300 word kiss.
Set the Scene in Six ~ share your backdrop or lead-up on Sundays.
The Genesis of a Book ~ share the spark that ignited your novel
Author Interviews ~ We're booking late spring now.

Coming soon ~ Tempt Us Tuesday

A place for your old stars to shine

http://eq-recycled-reviews.blogspot.com/

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Love Waits in Unexpected Places

Exquisite Quills:
Several authors & their romances.
From sweet to scorching.

Discover our author promo opportunities
http://exquisitequills.blogspot.com/

Exquisite Quills Recycled Reviews
A place for your old stars to shine.http://eq-recycled-reviews.blogspot.com/
Exquisite Quills Yahoo Group: Open to readers and writers
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExquisiteQuills/