NEW RELEASE – Season of the Witch by Jillian Chantal

My favorite romance author Jillian Chantal has a new release out, Season Of The Witch you are so going to want to check out this story.  Here’s the fabulous cover.

And an excerpt:

He turned to her and she had to force herself from gasping at his beauty. He was most certainly not old. He looked at her with eyes the color of a glacier. She was immediately transported in her mind to Glacier Bay inAlaska, where she’d seen the calving of the ice into the ocean. His eyes pierced her soul. They seemed to see into the depths of her mind.

“Are you all right?” He peered at her. He spoke with what sounded like a Russian accent.

She shook her head as if to clear it. “I’m fine. Sorry, I was just gazing into my crystal ball. I’m still in a sort of trance. She hoped the lie wasn’t obvious.

“So, you are a seer then?”

“Do you need some help?”

He walked toward her. “I do. Have you heard about the recent cat killings?”

Again, she had to stop herself from gasping. This was exactly what she was trying to investigate on her own. “Yes. As a matter of fact, I have heard of these horrible ritualistic killings. In fact, when you came in, I was looking into my ball to see if I could see anything at all related to who may be behind it.”

He stepped closer until he was in her personal space. “What did you find?”

She took a step back, flustered by his masculinity and something that seemed vaguely feline. She tossed her head for clarity. “Nothing. I got nothing.”

“Hell. I need to get a lead on this. I was hoping you could help me.”

“I wish I could. I’m also trying to figure out who’s behind it. If it’s one person or an organization.”

“Why? Why are you involved?” He looked around the shop, “Do you think it’s witchcraft?”

“Uh-uh. Not necessarily. Just because my shop is called The Season of the Witch and I sell herbs and New Age items, doesn’t make me think everything is related to witchcraft.” She went behind the counter to get more distance from the man who was decidedly too disturbing to her senses. “And besides, wouldn’t it be a cliché for ritualistic killings of cats to be related to satanic worship?”

“No. I mean, why do you care? Why are you investigating?”

“I could ask you the same thing.” She leaned on the wooden top of the counter.

“I asked you first.” He winked and leaned in from his side of the counter until his nose was almost touching hers.

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WOW Don’t you want to read more?  I do.  This fabulous story is available at

http://store.secretcravingspublishing.com/

Visit Jillian at her blog  http://www.jillianchantal.com

 

WEDDINGS

We go through phases of weddings in our lives.  First we have the weddings of family members.  Older cousins and such.  Then it’s our friends.  Some of us have our own and some of us are the bridesmaids.  Then our friends kids start getting married and our own children.  Weddings are hopeful, a celebration of love and happiness.

What does this have to do with writing?  Weddings are difficult.  You want everything to be perfect.  Perfect dress, perfect flowers, the vows, the cake everything and well do we get anything perfect? Not usually.  Let someone just write it for you.  Tell them what you’d like and let someone script it.  Who better than a romance writer to script a happily ever after.

Next month my story Always a Bride will be part of a Still Moments Anthology.  You’ll have to read it to find out if Alex can find her happily ever after when shes always a bride but somehow still single.

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Alphabet Challenge – OH MY

So there’s this game going around where you are given a letter and you have to share a blog post including ten things that begin with that letter that you love.  My letter is O.  So let’s see what we can do.

1 – Olives  and the olive salad that goes on muffalettas.  Yum.

2 – Olivia  - My great-niece.  She is  the middle child of 5 and an amazing young lady very bright and very sweet.

3 – Oklahoma where the wind goes sweeping down the plain.  The song for this O.

4 – Orange slices.   The candy.  They were one of my mom’s favorites.  They always remind me of her now and that makes me happy.

5 – October – I love the fall.  It’s such a great time of year for sports.  World Series, Football and Basketball are going on Nascar is winding down and the weather is cool and crisp and there’s Halloween.

6 – Open Arms by Journey it was one of my Prom themes and it takes me back to the day when I was young and in love idealistic and hopeful.

7 – Oceans  Okay so I’ve only seen one.  The Atlantic but I like it.

8 – Online from the days of my very very slow dial up modem I have loved to be online.

9 – Oatmeal – It’s such a good breakfast, it’s healthy and filing and tasty.

10 – Oshikuru – One of our favorite episodes of 2 and a Half Men is when Charlie has to write the theme song for a kid’s show about a demon samurai his nephew Jake enlightens him they work hard on a revised song and Charlie being Charlie sells out.  So for your viewing pleasure here is one of my favorite O. Oshikuru

Want to play along leave me a comment telling me you want to play and I’ll give you a letter.

Loved Him Then, Love Him Now – TOMMY LEE

He’s bad, he’s very, very bad.  You know he does very dirty, very naughty things.  How can you not love the guy? Well I know some of you can help it.  I cannot.  I see him and I get that little oh my shiver of thrill.  I saw Motley Crue in concert in 1984 when I was 18.  I saw them again the year I turned 40.  The concert was a little more high tech 2006 but they rocked it just the same.  The crowd was very much the same.  The big difference was that Mick Mars was pretty stationary.  He had hip replacement surgery before going on the road.  So I feel like I’ve got a long history with Motley Crue and Tommy Lee.  Loved him Then Love Him Now.  Keep on Rockin Tommy.

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And just for fun one of my favorite songs by the Crue back in the day.

 

Musical Memories – QUEEN

Last week I had the opportunity to go see a Queen tribute band, Gary Mullen and the Works and let me tell you it was amazing.  I felt 18 again.  Music has such an amazing power to take me back.  The amazing thing about this wa it was stuff that had slipped a little into the recesses of my memories.  I usually do one song for Musical Memories but that just won’t suffice this time.  First a song that it took seeing the original video to really trigger the memories now it’s a favorite all over again.

The theme of our Homecoming Float my Senior year, That would 1984 was Another One Bites the Dust

It wasn’t so much the float or homecoming but the boy I hung out with after float building sessions that this always brings to mind.

Here’s one more just to mix things up a little.

The concert was kind of a roller coaster of emotion.  As good as it was to be taken back and feel like  I was seeing Freddie Mercury, there was the renewed sadness of the loss and the wonder of what all we missed by losing Freddie entirely too soon.

Thanks to my friends Seth and Brent who accompanied me to the show and to Gary Mullen and the Works for taking me back to 1980 something.

Totally Hot, Totally Shirtless – Christopher Meloni

I have a thing for fictional cops.  Lucas Davenport is one of my favorite cops in books.  Third Watch, NCIS, Hill Street Blues, Law and Order, I love them all.  I guess i want the hero to truly be a hero.  So Law &  Order in its Special Victims Unit incarnation has been one of my favorites for a long time and largely because of Detective Elliott Stabler.  The man is just hot.  I never saw Oz but I heard he spent a lot of time undressed or in various stages of undress.  The internet is a good place to find these things.  So here are a few choice pictures of Christopher Meloni, a/k/a Elliott Stabler totally hot and totally shirtless.

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Musical Memories – Like A Virgin

It was 1984, the year I graduated from high school.  Life was good.  I was 18 and thought I knew everything and I discovered night clubs.  It was Nicky’s on Old National Highway in College Park, Georgia.  I wasn’t supposed to drive on Old National my mother thought it was too dangerous for me.  Me being the rebellious kid I was would find an excuse to drive on Old National.  My friend Kathy’s brother Bobby worked at Nicky’s so we could get in.  It was so exciting.  Flashing lights, great music and men.  There are two songs that always take me to that time and place.  Like a Virgin by Madonna 

And I’m just going to leave you with the name of the other because it’s the same time and same place but a whole different memory, it was The Chair by George Strait. So Madonna takes me back to a bar stool and dancing and Singapore Slings. Thanks Madonna.

Totally Hot, Totally Shirtless – Tom Hardy

Earlier this week we had the pleasure of Chris Pine, Hot and Shirtless, so today I bring you his This Means War co-star Tom Hardy. Tom is smoking hot and a sight to behold shirtless. Going to try and find time to watch Warrior this weekend. Apparently i missed a lot. So here he is in his shirtless glory. Again I threw in shirted picture to show that shirt on or shirt off Tom is HOT.

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Unleashed Hearts

Unleashed Hearts

This is the cover of the Anthology my story Unleashed Hearts will appear in next month.

Totally Hot, Totally Shirtless – Chris Pine

Yes He’s my new crush.  I did love him in Star Trek as James T. Kirk but seeing him in This Means War did it for me.  I think Chris Pine is just plain hot.  And he made me laugh in both movies and he played the action part well.  I really like this guy.  So without a lot of fan fare here he is for your viewing pleasure.  Chris Pine, Totally Hot and Totally Shirtless.  I’ll throw in a dressed picture too just to show that he can wear it well.  

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