It's
no surprise that I love my indie authors and books! I am hosting a bunch
of my favorite indie authors and giving away one e-book from each of them!
This giveaway is open internationally and ONE LUCKY WINNER will receive
an e-book from each of these amazing and talented authors! Now let's meet
these lovely ladies and read about the books you can win!
An avid reader and writer, Tracie Banister has
been scribbling stories since she was a child, most of them featuring feisty
heroines with complicated love lives like her favorite fictional protagonist
Scarlett O'Hara. Her debut Chick Lit novel, BLAME IT ON THE FAME, is being
released in January, 2012. She resides in the South and enjoys watching TV,
going to the theatre, finding talented, new writers, and spending time with her
three adorable rescue dogs.
Lending a sympathetic ear and dispensing sage words of advice is all part of the job for psychologist Pilar Alvarez, and she’s everything a good therapist should be: warm, compassionate, supportive. She listens, she cares, and she has all the answers, but how’s the woman everyone turns to in their hour of need supposed to cope when her own life starts to fall apart? While working hard to make a success of her recently-opened practice in trendy South Beach, Pilar must also find time to cater to the demands of her boisterous Cuban family, which includes younger sister Izzy, an unemployed, navel-pierced wild child who can't stay out of trouble, and their mother, a beauty queen turned drama queen who’s equally obsessed with her fading looks and getting Pilar married before it’s “too late.” Although she’d like to oblige her mother and make a permanent love connection, Pilar’s romantic prospects look grim. Her cheating ex, who swears that he’s reformed, is stalking her. A hunky, but strictly off-limits, patient with bad-boy appeal and intimacy issues is making passes. And the sexy shrink in the suite across the hall has a gold band on his left ring finger. When a series of personal and professional disasters lead Pilar into the arms of one of her unsuitable suitors, she's left shaken, confused, and full of self-doubt. With time running out, she must make sense of her feelings and learn to trust herself again so that she can save her business, her family, and most importantly, her heart.
Samantha
Stroh Bailey has been a writer ever since she could pick up a pen. In fact, she
even sent her first manuscript, Freddy the Flame, to publishers when she was
ten years old (it was rejected) and a lifelong passion to write was born.
After
15 years of teaching ESL to adults, including at the University of Toronto, she
decided to live her dreams of being a fulltime writer and editor. Now the owner
of Perfect Pen Communications, she not only gets to write novels, but also
writes and edits for magazines, websites, businesses, students and other
writers.
Her
work has appeared in Now Magazine, The Village Post, Oxford University Press,
Abilities Magazine, on mommyish.com and many other publications. Samantha also
has a Master of Education in Applied Linguistics.
She
lives in Toronto with her husband and two children. Finding Lucas is her first
novel.
Can you ever really go back to the past? After five long years of living with Derek, her former bad boy turned metrosexual boyfriend, Jamie Ross finally reaches her breaking point. She's had enough of his sneering disdain for her second hand wardrobe, unusual family and low-paying job as the associate producer of Chicago's sleaziest daytime talk show. When her new boss plans a segment on reuniting lost loves, Jamie remembers Lucas, her first love and the boy she'd lost ten years earlier. Spurred on by her gang of quirky friends, Jamie goes on a hilarious, disastrous and life changing hunt to track Lucas down. But will finding Lucas give Jamie everything she's looking for?
Born and
raised in the Midwest, Libby Mercer's adventurous spirit kicked in after
graduating from high school, and she's since lived in Boston, NYC and London.
For several years, Libby worked in fashion - first as a journalist and then as
a shopkeeper, and for a while she dabbled in design. Libby has been a writer
for as long as she can remember. She penned her first book at age seven - a
picture book entitled BIG and small. Countless numbers of stories later, her
first book, Fashioning a Romance, was published in May 2012, followed by
Unmasking Maya and The Karmic Connection. Libby lives in San Francisco.
Guilty of nothing more than working too
much - or so they say - Adam Stowe is dumped at a "wellness center"
in the middle of nowhere by a couple of concerned colleagues. When he meets
Lorraine, the beautiful and bewitching yoga instructor, his spirits start to
lift, but once he discovers what a flighty fruitcake she is, they drop back
down to subterranean levels.
For Lorraine Jameson, Luna Wellness Center was a beacon of solace when her life was falling apart, and she can't stand the way Adam's toxic energy is poisoning the peace. He embodies everything negative about the life she discarded eighteen months ago. Despite being fiercely attracted to the arrogant man, she's determined not to let Adam Stowe anywhere near her heart.
Adam and Lorraine couldn't be more unsuitable as a potential couple... so why is the universe so dead set on uniting these two?
For Lorraine Jameson, Luna Wellness Center was a beacon of solace when her life was falling apart, and she can't stand the way Adam's toxic energy is poisoning the peace. He embodies everything negative about the life she discarded eighteen months ago. Despite being fiercely attracted to the arrogant man, she's determined not to let Adam Stowe anywhere near her heart.
Adam and Lorraine couldn't be more unsuitable as a potential couple... so why is the universe so dead set on uniting these two?
Brea Brown lives in Springfield, Missouri, with her husband
and three sons, but her international support network stretches as far as
Australia. Her published novels are "Daydreamer," "The Secret
Keeper," "The Secret Keeper Confined," "The Secret Keeper
Up All Night," "The Secret Keeper Holds On," "The Secret
Keeper Lets Go," "Plain Jayne," and "Quiet, Please!"
In the fifth installment of Brea Brown’s much-beloved series,
the lovably flawed "secret keeper," Peyton Northam, suspects the
people closest to her are keeping some pretty big things from her. Once the
center of her circle of friends, she's now no longer the go-to confidante.
She'd always thought this would be a welcome relief, but instead finds it
frustrating and hurtful to always be the last to know everything. And that's
what seems to be happening more and more often. She wants to know as much as she doesn't want
to know, and it's starting to make her nuts. Or is that just the hormones
taking over for the perpetually pregnant pastor's wife? At the same time,
Peyton's ever-developing drive to do the right thing is hampering her ability
to keep certain secrets. Now, she may have to let go of a confidence that has
been nagging at her conscience for years. But is it really her secret to tell?
A born & bred New Yorker, Meredith Schorr discovered her passion for writing when she began to enjoy drafting work-related emails way more than she was probably supposed to, and was famous among her friends for writing witty birthday cards. After dabbling in children’s stories and blogging her personal experiences, Meredith found her calling writing “real” chick lit for real women. When Meredith is not hard at work on her current work in progress, she spends her days as a trademark paralegal at a law firm in New York City. Meredith is a loyal New York Yankees fan and an avid runner. She also loves to read and is always on the lookout for her new favorite author. A State of Jane is her 2nd novel.
What happens when your high school nemesis becomes the
shining star in a universe you pretty much saved? Book blogger Kimberly Long is
about to find out. A chick lit enthusiast since the first time she read “Bridget
Jones’s Diary,” Kim, with her blog, “Pastel is the New Black,” has worked
tirelessly by night to keep the genre alive, and help squash the claim that
“chick lit is dead” once and for all. Not bad for a woman who by day ekes out a
meager living as a pretty, and pretty-much-nameless, legal secretary in a
Manhattan law firm. While Kim’s day job holds no passion for her, the handsome
(and shaving challenged) associate down the hall is another story. Yet another
story is that Hannah Marshak, one of her most hated high school classmates, has
now popped onto the chick lit scene with a hot new book that’s turning
heads—and pages—a cross the land. It’s also popped into Kim’s inbox—for review.
With their ten-year high school reunion drawing near, Kim’s coming close to
combustion over the hype about Hannah’s book. And as everyone around her seems
to be moving on and up, she begins to question whether being a “blogger girl” makes
the grade in her off-line life.
Hi! I'm Nicky Wells, your ultimate rock chick author. Signed
to US Publisher, Sapphire Star Publishing, I write Romance That Rocks Your
World, featuring the rock star and the girl next door. My books offer glitzy,
glamorous contemporary romance with a rock theme ~ imagine Bridget Jones ROCKS
Notting Hill! If you've ever had a crush on any kind of celebrity ~ rock, pop,
movie or other ~ you'll connect with my heroes and my leading ladies!
I love listening to rock music, dancing, and eating lobsters. When I'm not writing, I'm a wife, mother, and occasional teaching assistant.
I love listening to rock music, dancing, and eating lobsters. When I'm not writing, I'm a wife, mother, and occasional teaching assistant.
Her famous star remains her
rock while life takes her on a little detour ... Who says that the road
towards true love is straight and even? Sophie is certainly discovering
that it is anything but.
So she
has finally found the man of her dreams. Well ... she knows who he is,
even though she hasn't actually quite met him yet. But she misses her
opportunity, and then her life goes crazy. Rock star and ex-fiance', Dan,
keeps getting in the way of her new romance - even if he is just trying to be
helpful. A fire, an impromptu mini trip with Dan, and a dreaded wedding
later, Sophe is still struggling to meet the love of her life. Then, just
as she is getting it together with her perfect man, best friend Rachel commits
an act of unspeakable betrayal. Sophie has had enough. Confused and
distraught, she decides that it is time for a radical change. Surprising
herself and shocking her friends, she embarks on a secret journey and
eventually gets her life back on track.
Jen Tucker has been a Girl Scout cookie schlepper,
piano lesson skipper, backstroke award winner, highway U-turn ticket receiver,
tattoo envier, Jack Wagner hard-crusher, infomercial addict anonymous member,
$13.55 Bingo jackpot winner, Grammy award winning singer Seal stalker with her
friend Julie, and never wore stilettos while doing any of the above due to the
fact that she has horrible bunions. She wrote the popular children's books, Two
by Two and Little Pumpkin and now Jen has written her first nonfiction piece.
Jen, a Purdue University graduate, lives in West Lafayette, Indiana with her
husband Mike and their three children. If Jen had spare time, she would
skydive, bake pretty little works of art cupcakes, and sit on her front porch
drinking Moscato with her friends. Instead, Jen drives her children to school,
still wearing her donut patterned pajamas and promises said children she will
not walk on school property with morning breath.
Yes, this time
she checked to make sure her panties were not inside out when her day began to
head south. Jen Tucker returns with her latest memoir, The Day I Lost My
Shaker of Salt. her dogs sample ant trap delicacies, a dentist
appointment goes strangely awry, and she battles potential road kill daredevils
on one thorny day. Tender at times, funny as always, one of your favorite
girlfriends returns to show you there are silver linings in the midst of bad
days.
Jen's debut memoir, The Day I Wore My Panties Inside Out, was
a 2011 Goodreads Semifinalist in the humor category. She is a regular
contributor at Survival for Blondes, where she marries humor with preparedness.
Jen lives in Indiana with her husband, three children and two dogs.
Cat Lavoie was born in the small town of Jonquière in
Québec, Canada. At the age of nineteen, she packed up her things (mostly books)
and moved to the big city of Montreal where she currently lives with her
tempestuous cat Abbie--who is both adorable and quite possibly evil.
An incurable Anglophile since her university days
where she studied English Literature, she can often be found daydreaming about
her next trip to London. Since she's an expert at the art of procrastination,
Cat is easily distracted by cooking and home improvement shows--even though
she's not particularly good at either.
Cat grew up watching soap operas and legal dramas
and--had she not decided to be a claims analyst by day and write chick lit by
night--she would have probably become a designer suit-wearing lawyer. Or a
character on All My Children (which is what she really wanted to be when she
was twelve).
When
twenty-seven year old Roxy Rule's best friend and roommate accepts a glamorous
new job overseas, she expects their relationship to continue as it's always
been - carefree and easy - until they share a heart-stopping kiss. While Ollie
escapes to jolly ole England to live out his dream and save the planet with
green architecture, Roxy is stuck in New York City working for a boss who makes
her want to stab herself with a letter opener. She can't bear to think about
her own big-city dream of being a chef anymore. Over the years, her passion for
food has only resulted in extra pounds and a staggering credit card balance for
fancy kitchen equipment that she barely has time to use. Still, Roxy's sure
that nothing can come between two lifelong best friends - not even mild
jealousy over a thriving career or a silly little kiss that meant nothing.
In fact, it was such a meaningless and forgettable
kiss that it's not worth mentioning to her fiance not that he would even listen
- all they do these days is argue about their upcoming wedding. Roxy is faced
with an unexpected family reunion when her younger sister Steffi arrives on her
doorstep, six months into a pregnancy she refuses to discuss. When older sister
Izzie - in the throes of a premature midlife crisis - joins them, she's
determined to crack the case of Steffi's impending motherhood.
With the Rule sisters living under the same roof
again, Roxy's quiet little apartment in the city is about to be anything but
peaceful. Roxy soon discovers that her seemingly idyllic relationship with
Ollie started getting complicated way before he left for London. She must come
to terms with her feelings for him, learn to stand up for herself and go after
what she really wants. Breaking
the Rules is the story of
what happens when you have to redefine the rules of love, friendship and family
in order to find yourself.
Jackie
Bouchard used to be trapped in
the hamster wheel of corporate America, but she was lucky enough to escape and
now fully understands the term "struggling writer." Jackie loves:
reading, writing, and, yes, even 'rithmetic (seriously, algebra rocks);
professional cycling; margaritas; blogging (she never thought she'd say that,
but she does); dogs in general, and her crazy rescue pup specifically; and her
hubby. (Not in that order.) Jackie dislikes: rude people and writing about
herself in the third person. After living in Southern California, then Bermuda,
then Canada, then the East coast, Jackie and her husband settled in San Diego.
American Jackie, her Canadian hubby, and her Mexican rescue mutt form their own
happy little United Nations. "What The Dog Ate" is her first novel.
Her second, "Rescue Me, Maybe," is due out in September 2013.
The vet handed Maggie Baxter a plastic specimen bag
containing a pair of size-tiny lavender thong panties extracted from her dog;
but they were not hers. Or rather, they were hers now since she'd just paid
$734 to have Dr. Carter surgically remove them from Kona's gut.
This is how Maggie Baxter, a practical,
rule-following accountant, discovers that her husband of seventeen years is
cheating on her. All her meticulous life plans are crushed. When he leaves her
for the other woman, Maggie and her the-world-is-my-smorgasbord chocolate Lab,
Kona, are left to put their lives back together. As Maggie begins to develop a
Plan B for her life, she decides to be more like Kona. No, she's not going to
sniff crotches and eat everything that isn't nailed down; rather she'll try to
approach life with more ball-chasing abandon. Finding herself in situations
where she begins to go through her usual over-analysis of the pros and cons,
she stops and instead asks herself: What would Kona do? With
Kona as her guru, Maggie begins her quest for tail-wagging joy.
"What the Dog Ate" is a funny, tender story of mending a broken heart and finding love and a new life right under your nose, with woman's best friend at your side. If you enjoyed Claire Cook's "Must Love Dogs" or Lolly Winston's "Good Grief," you'll love "What the Dog Ate" and be rooting for Maggie and Kona.
"What the Dog Ate" is a funny, tender story of mending a broken heart and finding love and a new life right under your nose, with woman's best friend at your side. If you enjoyed Claire Cook's "Must Love Dogs" or Lolly Winston's "Good Grief," you'll love "What the Dog Ate" and be rooting for Maggie and Kona.
LL Collins has been writing stories since
she could write. When she was little, she would write into the night and then
read to her little sister, her best friend, and anyone who would listen. In
school, if an assignment asked for three pages, she would write ten or more,
and was encouraged throughout the years by many loving teachers. She got a
degree in Creative Writing but decided to teach since at that time publishing
was a rarity. She has been teaching for over ten years and has two boys, ages
11 and 9 and lives in the sunny (and blistering hot) state of Florida. Last
year, she finally decided to make her dream happen and began writing Living
Again, a story that has been screaming in her head for a long time
now. She is already working on book two, and is determined to make her dreams
come true in the self-publishing world. Living Again will
be released at the beginning of October.
Kayley Carson thought she
had it all--married to the love of her life, a great job, and a baby on the
way. Then one day, her life changes forever when she loses her husband in a
tragic accident. No longer sure how to navigate life after her enormous loss,
Kayley clings to her newborn baby, her family, and her friends to keep herself
living.
When she meets someone
that challenges her belief that she's better off alone, she has to decide
if she is capable of letting him in after swearing she was never going to love
anyone the same way again.
She's not the only one
with a painful past. He is struggling with trust issues after a previous relationship
went horribly wrong. After a terrible misunderstanding brings out both of their
insecurities, will the painful memories of the past keep them both from living
again?
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