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It Happens at Midnight – stories from the Pen Warriors

January 31st 2012 Posted at Other Authors, Pen Warriors
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The Pen Warriors are a group of published writers who got together for a weekend retreat 11 years ago … and have continued “retreating” to talk about writing, craft, storytelling, and publishing - 4 times a year, for the last eleven years! In 2010 they took their discussion online with PenWarriors.com.

When the Pen Warriors decided to write a collection of short stories for an anthology, they decided that each author would write in whatever genre she wished. But tor these 5 writers, a common theme ties the stories together – it happens at midnight!

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THE STONE HEART … by Bonnie Edwards
Lorena’s fallen into an impossible love, but in a perilous sexually charged midnight game of Hide and Seek, who wins? The dark of the night? Or the bright light of day?

THE BROKEN GATE … by Vanessa Grant
Jennifer Sandborn fled personal tragedy to serve as a humanitarian aid worker, promising her husband she would return in a few months. Two years later she returns in the middle of the night. Everything feels familiar, but nothing is the same. Although she couldn’t see the house where her husband waited, memory guided her steps, filling her blackness with …

STAYING COOL … by E. C. Sheedy
Ex-cop, Patrick Byrne, is cool with danger, but not cool about undercover agent, Gina Argento. She walked out on him once, and Patrick isn’t about to let her back into his life. He’s not up for a second helping of heartache. But someone wants her dead, and he’ll do anything to protect her—even if it kills him.

THE TROUBLE WITH APPLES … by Laura Tobias
One last reading . . . one last good deed at midnight . . . and Freya can claim her ultimate reward. That’s the plan, anyway. But good deeds don’t always turn out the way they should and endings are sometimes new beginnings . .

THE LAST FORTUNE … by Gail Whitiker
When a handsome stranger appears at her caravan door for a midnight fortune telling, Rita Sheardown has no idea her life is about to change forever. But neither does her client…because no one wins when the devil holds the cards.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Bonnie Edwards writes sexy romances for various publishers from short stories to full-length novels. Lately she’s taken to teaching online classes in writing craft. You can learn more about her books (including excerpts) and her online writing classes at her website: www.bonnieedwards.com.

Vanessa Grant is fascinated by the mysteries of people, and believes in the power of love. She has written over 30 romance and women’s fiction novels that have sold over 10 million copies worldwide. Many of her titles are available in MuseBooks editions. Vanessa lives with her husband and their two Australian shepherds on an island in the Pacific Northwest. More about Vanessa

Laura Tobias Journalist Laura Tobias had a problem – journalists are expected to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.But making stuff up is way more fun. So Laura traded one notebook for another and today she writes romance and women’s fiction. She is also writes as the award-winning Laura Langston.

E. C. Sheedy writes romance, because she believes in the power of love, and romantic suspense, because sometimes a nasty and conniving villain pops into her head and she has to get him out. She lives and writes on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. With the ocean a few steps from her door and Zuke, a 110 pound Rhodesian Ridgeback, sleeping on the sofa in her office, she considers herself one very lucky writer. More about E C Sheedy.

Gail Whitiker suspected early in life that one of her Gemini personalities might be a writer, but the challenge was finding out what kind of stories she wanted to write. She is the award-winning author of seventeen historical novels and two contemporary paranormals. More about Gail Whitiker.

Author Vanessa Grant

January 23rd 2012 Posted at Vanessa Grant
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MuseBooks by Vanessa Grant

About Vanessa

“I love writing fiction,” says author Vanessa Grant, “With each new story, I get to explore a new world. It’s the perfect occupation for someone who can’t decide what to be when they grow up.”

Vanessa Grant’s love affair with writing fiction began during a protracted illness at the age of 12 when she decided to write a novel of her own, sitting up in bed using the typewriter she’d been given for her birthday. Not a computer, not an electric typewriter, but a then-state-of-the-art manual typewriter. The story ground to a halt on page 50 but Vanessa never forgot the excitement of bringing her own characters to life.

In 1985 Vanessa’s novel Pacific Disturbance was published in hardcover by Mills and Boon. She now has over 10 million books sold and has been translated into 15 languages. She also has written what one critic described as, “by far the best writing book I’ve ever read.”Writing Romance, published by Self Counsel Press, won the Under the Covers Best Writing Book Award, and is currently in its third edition.

Over the years her love of storytelling and curiosity about people led Vanessa to study psychology, volunteer on a crisis line, complete individual and relationship counselor training, volunteer as a peer counselor for a family life organization, and tell stories about life, love, and secrets. Vanessa is also a university professor, a publisher of educational materials and eBooks, and has given workshops to writers’ groups in Australia, New Zealand, the USA and Canada.

Vanessa and her husband live on Vancouver Island in the Pacific Northwest with their two Australian Shepherd dogs.

Vanessa Grant Online

Web site and blog: VanessaGrant.com

Twitter: @Vanessa_Grant

Facebook page: www.facebook.com/vanessagrantauthor

Author Kay Gregory

January 23rd 2012 Posted at Kay Gregory
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Kay Gregory’s Biography

“I was a teenager when I came to Canada with my parents after my English father retired and my Canadian mother wanted to return to her roots on Vancouver Island,” says Kay. “I’m not sure my parents knew it, but I planned to stay a year then go back to England and my friends.

“Fate and the Canadian Navy, in the person of Able Seaman Bob Gregory, intervened. We met in the unromantic setting of a dog club banquet – he was a blind date – and were married a year later. We then moved to Winnipeg, which was a shock to a young woman used to rainy summers and wet, green Christmases. Thunder Bay, where we lived next, was only marginally warmer in the winter, and I was relieved when we finally settled in Vancouver with its comfortably familiar rain.

“For the next few years I was busy raising two sons and a collection of dogs, hamsters, gerbils, rats and ferrets. There wasn’t much time even to think about my longtime ambition to be a writer, especially after Bob returned to school so he could become a teacher. During those years I had more jobs than I can count, everything from removing the roe from dead herring, to packaging paper bags (the bags won and I lost the job), running a health food bar, cleaning office buildings and working in a variety of offices as a rather uninspired secretary. Once, when asked what I did for a living, I remember replying, “I don’t know. Mostly I change jobs.

“Eventually I did find time to take a series of creative writing courses which resulted in bad poetry, children’s fiction, literary stories about the human condition and aging – at 25 I was, of course, an expert – humorous articles about family life and rats, and what I fondly imagined was suspense. Up until the time I sold my first book, my most notable writing achievement was a letter in the local newspaper asking if anyone could provide a nice home for 34 rats. My elder son had brought home four of his school’s rodents for the holidays, and a rat called Demetrius had enjoyed a splendid summer doing what he did best with three lovely lady rats called Athena, Cassandra and Aphrodite. Yes, believe it or not, we did find them all homes. I’m not the only crazy mother in B.C.

“In 1986, one of my suspense novels turned out to be a romance, and I sold A Star for a Ring to Mills & Boon. Since then I have published 29 books, novellas and short stories with Harlequin Mills & Boon and other publishers, in over 20 languages. My most recent book release was Opposites Attract from Ulverscroft Press. Some of my books are also available in Large Print and audio, as well as electronic format with Muse Creations. Even though I’m a techno-nerd, I firmly believe e-publishing will be the way of the future.

“I am currently working – that’s what I tell people anyway – on my 30th book, which will be a sequel to A WOMAN OF EXPERIENCE.

“Now, after many years of doing what I didn’t want to do, I am lucky enough to have the best job in the world – writing stories that people actually want to read.”

Kay Gregory Online

Web site: KayGregory.com

Authors Carole Dean and Jillian Dagg

January 22nd 2012 Posted at Carole Dean, Jillian Dagg, Other Authors
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Author Carole Dean (AKA EC Sheedy)

Carole Dean is a pseudonym of contemporary romance and romantic suspense author E. C. Sheedy. EC Sheedy was born and grew up in the Pacific Northwest. For the past several years she has lived on Vancouver Island, just a short ferry ride from two great cities: Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, British Columbia.

Before taking up the pen seriously her interests were entrepreneurial. She started and ran three successful businesses, the last a computer sales and service company. And while she was glad enough to leave the corporate world behind, she gives it a thumbs up for giving her the discipline to learn and persevere in an equally demanding job, writing entertaining fiction.

She lives only a few steps from the ocean, and if a walk on the rocky beach while communing with Mother Nature doesn’t bring fresh ideas for her books, a few minutes thinking about the quirks and quandaries of Human Nature most assuredly does.

People are, she believes, complex and endlessly fascinating, each of them part fact and part fiction—each worthy of their own book. With so many souls to explore, both dark and light, she knows she won’t run out of stories anytime soon.

You can visit Carole Dean (AKA EC Sheedy) online at ECSheedy.com

Author Jillian Dagg

Jillian Dagg is a romance author who has also written under the pseudonyms Faye Wildman, Jillian Fayre, Marilyn Brian, and Jillian James.

Jillian says. , “My life began in a small town not far from London in Surrey, England, where I grew up reading books. Lots of books. If I wasn’t in one of the two libraries in my town, I was in the local bookstore. At the time I had no idea that I was sowing the seeds for my career.

“Then I moved with my family to Winnipeg, Canada, where I became an avid reader of romances, and wrote stories inserting extra romance and happy endings into my favourite TV programmes.

“I don’t know if any of my teachers ever knew that I was busily scrawling the end at the bottom of my latest story when the bell rang to signify it was time for the hero and heroine to ride off into the sunset.

“I was working as a secretary at The Winnipeg Free Press when I met my husband, Jim.”

Jillian continued to write, and was living in Ontario, Canada, when she sold her first book to Silhouette Books. She has written for Simon & Schuster, Berkley Jove, Robinson Scarlet and Avalon Books.

You can visit Jillian Dagg online at JillianDagg.com

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