12 Days of Christmas Reading ~ Day 4

On the fourth day of Christmas...
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  The Toilet Business ~ A Lifetime Of Crappy Jobs, by Stacey Wallace Benefiel

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Product Description

What (completely real) people are saying about The Toilet Business:

"Hilarious!" - Stacey's BFF

"I think I just peed a little. You're gonna change my name, right?" - "Chantal"

"Can you get me some apple juice?" - G.Benefiel, age 4

"Wanna see me eat glass? Parking lot. Two minutes." - guy on the barstool next to me at the TT circa 1997*

*Okay, that quote has nothing to do with The Toilet Business. It also had nothing to do with the conversation I was having with that guy in '97.

*****

Stacey Wallace Benefiel has been a butcher, a baker and would totally entertain the idea of being a candlestick maker.

Over the past eighteen years she’s worked nearly fifty jobs, ninety percent of which were crappy.

From motel housekeeper, to fry cook, to Tower Records salesperson, Stacey has weathered her employment adventures with a smile on her face, uncomfortable shoes on her feet, and a double Jack and Coke in hand.

Her employment history gives new meaning to the phrase retail therapy.

*****
This e-book is intended for readers over 18 due to language and semi-illegal shenanigans.

12 Days of Christmas Reading ~ Day 3

On the third day of Christmas...
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  Open Me, by Reina Stowe

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Reina will gift one lucky winner a little extra Christmas spice with her Smashwords ebook, Open Me.

Product Description

Sabrina and Jonathan are co-owners of a commercial photography studio and they are going through a dry spell - creatively, financially and sexually. When they receive three boxes simply marked Open Me, things start looking up as they start seeing each other for the first time.

*This is a short story - 15 standard pages.

*Warning: Open Me is for ADULTS ONLY due to sexually explicit M/F scenes involving sex toys, Cup-O-Noodle and a really sturdy table.

Reina Stowe crafts Happily Ever After's with a little extra oomph! She lives and goes to grad school in Seattle, WA.

Connect with her online:
http://reinastowe.blogspot.com
Twitter: @ReinaStowe

12 Days of Christmas Reading ~ Day 2

On the second day of Christmas, my true love gave to me....
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  Warrior's Rise, by L.J. DeLeon

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I'm gifting an ebook copy the following Amazon copies:

WARRIOR'S RISE (Warriors for Light, Book 1):  http://www.amazon.com/Warriors-Rise-Light-Book-ebook/dp/B004T39Y88/  

Product Description for Warrior's Rise

For Fae-human half-breed Deva Morgan life as she knows it changes on her thirtieth birthday. One moment she’s a barkeep, the next she is a warrior fated to save Earth from the Dark Lord and his demon horde. Shunned by both her races, she faces a danger-filled quest with few allies. Too bad her powers haven’t fully emerged or stabilized.

For Deva it is life or death, on-the-job training with her companion, Padraig O’Neal, a Fae warrior with a shadowed past. Can he quiet the storm raging inside her, help her harness the growing power within her, and provide a barrier between Deva and a fatal outcome? Will their love be enough to save Deva and stop the Dark Lord’s demons from entering Earth?

  DRAGON CHILD (Warriors for Light, Book 2) 

http://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Child-Warriors-Light-ebook/dp/B004THDM6Y/

Product Description

A fire-breathing dragon, Moira O'Neal, was exchanged at birth for a Fae princess. Discovering the truth, she escapes the cage of the royal court and joins forces with the sexiest wereleopard on Earthworld. She fights the urge to mate and the trap that comes with it as they race against time to find the missing princess and a master of the black arts who covets her power.

Major Steve Taylor, a wereleopard in the Army For Light, partners with the impetuous Moira in the middle a dangerous mission where failure means all their deaths. Worse, his leopard decides Moira is his mate, leaving the man at war with his cat.

 

  ABSOLUTION (Warriors for Light, Book 3) http://www.amazon.com/Absolution-Warriors-For-Light-ebook/dp/B0050D8OPU/

Product Description

He did the unforgivable. Druid Lucan Woods killed his surrogate father and best friend for the greater good. Wracked with guilt, he infiltrates a brotherhood of evil, hoping the mission is one way. Absolution may come from a missing Fae Princess, if he will accept it. Or will he reject her love and use her as a pawn in his drive to destroy the leader of the brotherhood?

Fae Princess Alanna has just learned her twin daughters are alive. She leaves hIfreann to search Earth for them. Only she can touch Luc’s heart. But will he let her? Will he open his stained soul and allow her to enter in time to save them both?

  THE ULTIMATE GAME (Turner Chronicles, Vol 1)  http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Game-Turner-Chronicles-ebook/dp/B004UW2NIG/

Product Description

A con game from the past and a gamble on love in the future hold the key for world order in a cybernetic age.

Trapped in a cave-in with two women in 1875, Max Turner awakens to a sterile cryo lab in 2484. If he thought he could play it straight, he has another think coming. Only the heads of the few ruling families stay un-cyber-chipped and alive. His one chance of success rests in passing-off his cave-in partner, Maddy Doyle, as his dead fiancée, Madeline Riley, ancestor to the privileged Riley Family—the same family that blew the mine.

Assisted by a renegade scientist, a rebellious cyborg, and his newfound wife, Max lays out his plans. His greatest asset is Maddie, a beauty with a calculating mind to match his own and startling new cybernetic skills. Can the lovers process their con game fast enough to survive the Riley Family’s attempts on their lives?

12 Days of Christmas Reading ~ Day 1

On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me...
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  Compis, by Kate Copeseeley

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I'll be giving away a free copy of Compis via Smashwords.  Winners can email me at katecauthor@gmail.com for the coupon code.

Product Description

After thousands of years, male after
male, finally --a female COMPIS is chosen. The peace of a nation
seems secure, yet beneath the facade turmoil boils among its leaders.
The innocent children, raised in ignorance all their lives until the
Initiation of their seventeenth year, have no idea of the true face
behind their High Council.

Why has a girl been chosen? Why is she
special? Will she be able to do what no other Compis has done and
bring the hypocrisy to an end?

Approx. 250 pages.  YA fiction.

12 Days Of Christmas Reading Gift List

Welcome to the 12 Days Of Christmas Reading....
Where we will be giving away over 21 books in the next 12 days!

 Christmas is a time for giving, and if you've got an avid reader on your list, you're in the right place!  J.R. and I are featuring authors from a wide range of genres over the next 12 Days to help you find just the book you're looking for!  (And maybe you'll even win a free book!)

Here are our featured authors and their 2011 releases.  Click HERE to see a complete listing with product descriptions for any book that catches your interest and for purchase links and some great posts on Christmas traditions and memories from our featured authors!  Stop back each day to see each author's featured day - or simply click the link above to see all the authors and their books at once!

Leave us a comment with your favorite Christmas/Holiday song and be entered for a chance to win one of the great books on our list.  There will be at least one book given away each day, with a giveaway bonanza on the final day, 22 December. 
**Winners will be notified by email, so don't forget to leave yours after your comment!

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Insecure Writer Wednesday

Insecurity # 45634.B ~ Being Reviewed...Or worse.

Is there anything more exciting, revolting, splendiferous (yep, made that up just now...), nerve-wrenching, or fantastic than finding out you'll be/have been reviewed?  Well, in the writing world, anyway....  Ha! 

Yesterday, I released my second book, a novella.  Her Dark Baron is now for sale!  Terrific, right?  Right.  Ahem.  I'm over the moon! 

I am an indie-author, and to get the word out about my newest little egg, I need people to talk about it.  Reviews are the best way for the word to spread.  So, I gave a little hint, hint when I posted my 'Woo-Hoo' about its release.  Now, I wait, anxiously hoping that readers will take the time to offer a review.

I find it a bit disconcerting, asking for reviews, that is.  What is the proper etiquette in this situation?  I didn't approach anyone directly, but I did offer a wee hint of a reminder.  I'm fairly new to this game, and I've no desire to appear pushy, or gasp, tacky.  Ha!  (I have been known in the past to dig my foot from my throat with blushes galore...and I've no wish to repeat the odious task...)

I asked for readers to consider taking the time to offer an honest review.  Gulp.  Yep!  I added that extra word in there.  Honest.  Now I'm remembering those old sayings my dad was always touting                  ~ 'Be careful what you wish for.  You just might get it.'                                                                            ~ 'Everyone's a critic.'                                              ~ 'One man's nightmare is another man's dream.'           ~ 'Love me.  Hate me.  As long as you're talking about me.'                                                    ~ 'Opinions are like...' heh-heh...I won't add that one in. 

My dad had a bit of dark humor.... Come to think of it....why didn't he ever have those encouraging, inspirational, fluffy or fru-fru-ey (made that one up, too!) sort of sayings that all the other parents were saying?  My dad offered you bits of wisdom like, 'Well... when you're dumb, you suffer,' and the ever-so-favorite-amongst-my-siblings-and-me, 'What are you, some kind of as*$#le?'  Hmm.  Guess it gave me thick skin, a non-victim attitude, and thankfully, the kind of chin that can take a shot! (Now don't get too upset for us poor kids...we were the sort who absolutely could not settle ourselves without a strong hand.  We needed a dad who could handle us firmly with no nonsense.  We sure did give that man a run for his money!)  So...thanks, Dad.  Jiminy Christmas!...never thought I'd hear myself saying thanks for those little pearls...

How do you - or do you at all - hint that reviews would be ever-so-helpful? 

I'm also over at Maria Zaninni's blog today as part of her Do It Yourself Christmas Promotion!  Stop by for a tasty treat ..and to enter for a chance to win my new release!

Her Dark Baron

My newest novella, Her Dark Baron, is available!

 Buy at Amazon 

Stop by and visit my page at Amazon Author Central! My novella is also available at my Smashwords page!

Thank you to everyone!  You've all been so supportive and encouraging during the writing, the typing, and the editing of this story.  I'm so excited to finally see it up for sale!  And don't forget... as an independent author, word of mouth is paramount to getting my name/books into the hands of readers.  If you read, please offer an honest review on Amazon, at Smashwords, or at Goodreads!  This author would be most appreciative! 

I'm off to celebrate...well, just a bit.  I've got a Christmas promotion post to write, some great authors to add to the ever growing 12 Days Of Christmas Reading, an Insecure Writers post and a ROW80 post to ready for tomorrow, and a guest post to write for Sommer Leigh's blog!  There is truly no rest for the wicked, eh?  Ha!

Have a great week everyone!  ~ Nadja