Embracing the Darkness, Shiela Stewart

Once upon a time Jonah Moore had it all. Then his wife and unborn child were taken from him, leaving his life darker than when Chaos and his evil vamps stole the sun. Now, Jonah’s lost the will to face another day, which could be a problem, considering he’s just been turned into a vampire and is now destined to live for eternity.

As a nurse, Raven Moony was used to tending to the needs of others. Until an accident changes everything… When she is abducted and forced to tend to Chaos’ needs, she is more than ready to give in and willingly accepts her role as his slave.

Then Jonah enters the picture and she finds herself fighting for his safety and freedom as well as her own. Can she convince Jonah he should go on despite her own doubts? Can they open their hearts to love and learn that there is indeed life after death?

Shiela Stewart’s third novel in The Darkness series continues the heart stopping, action packed battle of light against dark. Enter a world where light shines from within and love always triumphs…even in the face of pure evil.

BUY EMBRACING THE DARKNESS

Visit Shiela Stewart's Website:

www.shielasbooks.ca

UnForeseen Delay

Friday's post (Friday January 30th) will be featured on Saturday (Saturday January 31st)

I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.


Thank you for your understanding, patience and support.


Tina-Sue
Authors Promoting Authors
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Sammy The Panda's World of Colors And Shapes, Haliyma Barrow

This educational bilingual English/Spanish picture book takes kids on a shape hunt for the missing shapes of Sammy the panda's favorite toy set "The Ship of Shapes".

During the hunt kids can count from one to ten, while they discover the different colors and shapes of Sammy's ship.

This book also refers to Sammy's emotional states, as it opens with Sammy's sadness and closes with his happiness.

Finally, this bilingual book will help children to develop basic language skills in English and Spanish, the two predominantly spoken languages in the United States.

To learn more about this book and author Haliyma Barrow, please visit:

www.sammythepanda.com

BUY SAMMY THE PANDA WORLD OF COLORS AND SHAPES

Cafe Au Lait, Liane Spicer

Londoner Shari Zamore is at the end of her rope. Her carefully constructed world is falling down around her ears, and she's so restless that she can barely bring herself to care. So the pretty professional runs away to her family's home in Trinidad in search of rest, relaxation, and maybe even a little no-strings romance. What she finds there is a stubborn, sexy man determined to make her face all of the things she desperately wants to forget.

Most visitors embrace the sultry spirit of his homeland. So why is Michael Chancery so intrigued by a woman whose icy attitude and arrogant demeanor seem designed to discourage any man who tries to get too close? Her plan is to love him, leave him, and then return to the life she left on hold. But Michael doesn't give up easily, and he'll use every tool in his sensual arsenal, every moment of each heated tropical night to convince Shari that her place is on the island…and that his heart belongs to her.

"CAFÉ AU LAIT is a steamy, hot romance... I loved this book because of its brilliant flavor, rich aroma and the way it perked up my spirits. Readers will enjoy this delicious romance and especially the steamy, frothy love scenes." - Romance Readers at Heart

"Liane Spicer interweaves the beautiful locale into a fine tale that will have the audience considering some mellowing (and reading) in the Caribbean." - Genre Go Round Reviews

"Even if the reader has never set foot in the Caribbean, the sights and sounds, perfectly described in this book, will make you feel like you're there... throw in some unexpected drama, and you've got yourself an entertaining novel." - Romantic Times

Excerpt from CAFE AU LAIT
"You don't fool me, Shari. You may fool everyone else, but not me."
He paused for a long moment. Then his hard fingers grabbed Shari's and pulled her sharply to him. Taken off guard, she fell against his chest, felt his strong arms encircle her, heard him groan as his lips found hers. His breathing was harsh, and Shari could feel the thunder of his heart against her breast, a sweet echo of hers. Sweet, sweet ecstasy. A world unfolded before her, inside of her, petal by petal, infinitely wonderful, infinitely thrilling, a world where nothing existed but Michael's lips, hands, body, his warm masculine aroma, the smell and taste and feel of him.
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Visit Liane Spicer's Blog

http://lianespicer.blogspot.com/

Why The Donation Button?

Today, I've added a donation button via Paypal to this blog.

The reason why its here, is because right from the beginning a few people asked if they could buy me a coffee.
People who recognized how much work I put into Authors Promoting Authors, which includes advertising this blog, working hard to attract readers and promoting each book that comes along.

I held off on doing this for a long time, until this week I received a slew of emails suggesting the PayPal button.

My feelings are still torn on this. It is my pleasure to offer Authors Promoting Authors and my intentions for doing this was never to make money.

In the future, I'd like to take APA to the next web level, which involves creating a website for authors to promote themselves and their books-each one having a profile and space to do so and creating more reader interaction.

If you would like to buy me a coffee/make a donation, please accept my gratitude and know that it will go towards my continuing efforts of promoting authors and their work.
But please, don't feel like you have to.

Shades of Gray: A Novel of the Civil War in Virginia, Jessica James

Discover the fine line between friends and enemies in this epic love story that chronicles the clash of a Confederate cavalry commander with a Union spy as they defend their beliefs, their country, and their honor. This debut novel by Jessica James has received critical acclaim from Civil War authors and historians, as well as lovers of romance and historical fiction.

Shades of Gray is also the winner of two Best Regional Fiction awards in 2008.

Buy Shades of Gray
Visit Jessica James' Website:
www.jessicajamesbooks.com

Desiring the Darkness,Shiela Stewart

With the cloak of Darkness surrounding Jacob’s Cove, Dante Vega must work together with his friends to protect the humans from the blood thirsty vampires wanting to take over the human race. When a half naked young woman races into his arms, begging him to protect her, he is compelled to do so, despite the fact that she is a vampire.

Before all hell broke loose and the sun vanished, Gypsy Dawn was an ordinary woman carrying on with her ordinary life. Until she’s turned into a vampire. With no family and no where to go, she clings to Dante. Aside from his dark mysterious good looks, she finds herself inexplicably drawn to him. And when his life is threatened, she discovers just how protective of him she is.

Trying to bring back the sun isn’t easy, especially when Chaos, the one creature responsible, has gone into hiding. And when Dante finds out his long lost brother is working with the man responsible, he tries desperately to convince him to switch sides. But his attention is drawn to more important things when one friend is killed and another is taken hostage.

Will Dante be able to save him before it’s too late?

Buy DESIRING THE DARKNESS

Visit Shiela Stewart's Website:

www.shielasbooks.ca

Deceptive Clarity, Betty Gordon

A MAN GOES MISSING--A SHADOWY FIGURE, A PHANTOM, A CHAMELEON.
CAN P.I. LISA MARTIN FIND HIM BEFORE DANGEROUS FORCES STOP HER?

International intrigue is set in motion when an importer/exporter of Egyptian antiquities goes missing. Lisa Martin, a gutsy P.I., along with a sexy investigator and shrewd journalist, get entangled in a journey filled with suspicious characters and death threats--a journey that radiates from Houston to Cairo, Rome, and London. They soon discover there's much more to this antiquity dealer than Egyptian relics.

A maze of deception, danger, and suspense sprinkled with spicy romance is deftly woven into the fabric of Deceptive Clarity.

To buy DECEPTIVE CLARITY and learn more about Betty Gordon, please visit:

http://bettygordon.com/

Queries and Leave A Comment...I dare you...

Query letters....do I need to go on about how important they are? How essential? How tedious they can be to write?
Personally, I enjoy writing queries but can not attest to getting it right, just yet.
I do think as with any type of writing, having a query edited, read and read and read, and rewritten a billion times is helpful.

Here are some resources I have found to be true gems on writing query letters:

Query Shark
If you haven't seen this, check it out! This is so incredibly brilliant!
http://queryshark.blogspot.com/

A nice article from Writers Write:
http://www.writerswrite.com/journal/apr98/keegan7.htm

From Agent Query (which also has an awesome database of agents listings)
http://www.agentquery.com/writer_hq.aspx


A step by step outline from Comix Talk
http://comixtalk.com/a_road_less_traveled_writing_the_query_letter

If you have any more resources or suggestions, feel free to note them in the comments.

Ah! Comments...
Look around, the comments are a little sparse. I get plenty of emails from readers (how I regret saying in my blog that I love email) but hardly any comments.
There are plenty of authors "attached" to APA. And a great way to show support of another author is to comment on their post. Ask about their book, compliment, say what you like, etc.

Leave a comment, I dare you to!

Revenants: Fallen Savior, Ryan Sherwood

Revenants:Fallen Savior, is a fantasy/magic realism book about the newest creature to rule the darkness.

Often mistaken for a vampire, and quite perturbed about it, this brand new undead race dubbed revenants, live out their undead days in a great war over the soul.
Each revenant is not evil and soulless but overburdened with the many lives of a reincarnated soul.
Each must learn to harness the limitless power of their human soul to sway the epic battles between them away from the mouth of Hell that so many seem to be steering towards.

Buy Revenants: Fallen Savior :

http://www.synergebooks.com/ebook_revenants.html

Visit Ryan Sherwood's Website:
www.ryansherwood.com

Courage of The Heart, Chelle Cordero

COURAGE OF THE HEART shows us that sometimes love is the only cure for the very deepest of emotional wounds. Adam Sherman has remained quiet about his scandalous past and is comfortable with his reputation as a womanizing and dedicated bachelor. He is an expert in the field of computers including programming, networking and hacking. At twenty-five years old, he is content with his management job at a local Internet Provider.

Davie Prescott is twenty years old and a college student who is working part-time at the same Internet Provider where Adam is employed. She was raised in a very close knit family of aunts, uncles and cousins. She and her widowed father are very close. Adam is attracted to Davie, but he shies away from her innocence because he feels his shameful past is too harsh for her existence. Adam finally shares his darkest secret with Davie and is amazed to find that she doesn't turn away from him.

But when Adam’s past catches up to him, he soon learns that there´s a lot more at stake than just his nightmares. Adam is prepared to give Davie up if need be in order to protect her until he learns that she´s got a secret of her own. With Davie´s help, Adam learns a courage that is born of love, courage of the heart.

The story of the two lovers takes a series of unexpected and fast paced turns where lives, sanity and love are put in jeopardy. Their commitment to one another results in a spirit that binds them together and helps them to overcome physical and emotional dangers.

Buy COURAGE OF THE HEART
VISIT CHELLE CORDERO'S BLOG

Excerpt from COURAGE OF THE HEART:

PROLOGUE

He trailed kisses down her neck while he let his hands explore the recesses of her body. Davie shuddered when he found the warmth between her thighs with his fingers.

"Am I hurting you?" He was concerned. Even though he had made it a habit not to get involved with any of his partners, she had made him pause. There was something special about this girl; there was something about her that had stayed in his mind ever since their first meeting.

"No… oh, Adam, that feels so good." Davie kissed him back as she felt her response spiraling toward the unknown. "Adam… Adam…" Her breath caught.

"What Sweetheart?" It was easy to see how excited she had become and it felt good to know that he had that effect on her.

"Adam…" She felt very timid. "I've never felt like this before."

"I'm glad." He thought of how good it was going to feel when he entered her. "I'm so very glad."

"Adam… teach me…"

He mated their lips and wrestled his tongue with hers. "What do you want me to teach you?" He smiled against her neck.

"Teach me how to… ooh…" She arched her back and pressed herself into his palm. "How to make it good for you."

Oh lord, so sweet, he thought as he took a delicate nub into his mouth. "How could it not be good for me? You are so beautiful…"

Davie felt another shudder run through her. "But, I don't know… Adam, I," She inhaled sharply as she felt his fingers probing inside her. "Adam… I've never…"

For the first time, Adam remained motionless. "Never… what?"

"I've… never been with a man before." She sensed his withdrawal before he actually pulled away.

Adam's brow was furrowed, "What are you saying, Davie?"

The icy chill that Davie felt left her feeling embarrassed to be lying naked in bed with this man. She pulled the bed sheet over her exposed breasts. "I've never been with a man… before"

He sat upright in bed seemingly unaware that he was just as naked as she was. "Are you telling me that you're a virgin?"

Davie sat up clutching the bed linens tightly to her body. "Yes."

"Damnation!" Adam got up from the bed angrily. "You couldn't have told me that before?"

Her eyes welled with tears. "I didn't know we were going to wind up in your bed…"

They had gone out to dinner, again, and a walk in the park. His kisses turned into an invitation back to his apartment. She wasn't naïve, she knew that they might… get closer, but she was so spellbound by him…

"Dammit Davie! I have never taken a virgin before and I certainly don't intend to start with you!"

She watched incredulously as he pulled a pair of jeans on. "I'm sorry… I…" Suddenly Davie felt angry. “If you thought that I thought it was going to be some kind of commitment, you don't need to worry. I got carried away… don't worry, it won't happen again." She stood taking the bed sheet with her to cover herself. "If you don't mind giving me some privacy, I'll get dressed."

Her anger made him feel contrite and he responded in much gentler tones. "I'll take you home as soon as you're ready."

"Don't bother! I'll manage on my own." She stared at the bedroom door pointedly, but he didn't budge. "Fine!" Davie dropped the linen to the floor and picked up her clothing.

Earlier, Adam's body had felt as cold as if he had been blasted with icy water, but as he got another glimpse of her astonishingly beautiful naked body again, he was happy he had donned his pants to hide his reaction.

"I… I'm sorry", he turned his back to her. "I… I just can't be… the first…"

"What?!"

"I'm sorry…" He left the room.

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From Alice to Zen and Everyone in Between, Elizabeth Atkinson

Alice Bunt's life is going to be "pretty perfect." After all, she and her parents have just moved from a tiny apartment in Boston to a huge McMansion in the suburbs on a real cul-de-sac.

But when Alice discovers that no one in her new neighborhood is even close to 11 years old, her high expectations plummet. Until her parents convince her to take a strollin search of a friend.

And that's when she meets Zenithal Stevie Wonder Malinowski...who is unlike any boy she has ever met.

Buy From Alice to Zen and Everyone in Between
Visit Elizabeth Atkinson's Website

Hold the Light, Ryan Sherwood

HOLD THE LIGHT is about a lineage of men forced to be Death.

Spanning from the infancy of America during the Revolutionary War to the Great Depression to modern times,'Hold the Light' illustrates three men's attempts to twist this power over mankind for either greed or good, yet no matter how they try, fate cannot be altered.

And the fate of Death is far from simple.

Buy HOLD THE LIGHT
Visit Ryan Sherwood's Website

The Chosen, C.A. Milson

From the time that the Darkness ruled the ages,
The Ancient Ones prophesied of a time when the last
descendant of The Gods would arise.

Now, in the town of Winmont, the Ancient Legion has awoken to finish what was started many millennia ago.

Now, the fate of humanity is in the hands of One, but can he
overcome the forces that dare to challenge the bloodline of the Gods…

For More Information on Author C.A. Milson or to buy THE CHOSEN visit:

http://authorcamilson.blogspot.com

Where Is Wednesday's Post?

If you are a regular reader of Authors Promoting Authors (many thanks) you might have noticed that I post book features Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
(Book features are the cover/blurb and where the author takes the post before theirs and reposts it on their blog).
Today is Wednesday, so where is the post?

A couple of months ago when I was booking for January, I have the author who was supposed to be featured today, given the logic of this system, the wrong date. I have them tomorrow's date.
So for the first time ever, a book feature will appear on Thursday, and I have further complicated my life!
What would I do without Authors Promoting Authors?

In the last two months, Authors Promoting Authors has reached a wider reader audience and has had a bunch of success.
Thank you all for your support.

You might have also noticed, that I am adding more features.
I am posting relevant information to authors, unique literary things, and coming soon, author interviews.
When these are posted, they are posted, that's it, no reposting. Reposting is only for the book features that appear on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, when my brain is working correctly.

If you are interested in having an article (about yourself, your success, your book, or something related to writing) or an interview, email me and let me know.
If you are submitting a book feature please make it clear in the email that you are interested in Authors Promoting Authors.

Thank you all for your support and for helping to make Authors Promoting Authors a working success.

Tina-Sue

Celtic Sacrifice, Sheryl Brennan

"Do you know how to make the gods laugh, Ceana? Tell them of your plans."

When members of her dead mother’s clan of O’Connor come to claim Ceana O’Hagan on her eighteenth birthday, she believes her destiny is clear: to marry Cian O’Connor, become a druid priestess, and restore the mystic powers of a long-lost ancestor.

Ceana has faced her future always head on however now there seems to be someone or something changing what she believed her destiny was to be.
Can Ceana overcome the trials facing her?
Can she find happiness and love along the way?
Or do the Gods have something else planned for her?

Buy Celtic Sacrifice

Visit Sheryl Brennan's Website

Become An Amazon.com Bestseller!

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This Bestseller Strategy is so powerful, yet so simple, it turned Sally’s book into a bestseller overnight, and she is passionate about helping others do the same.

So many authors can benefit from this type of

knowledge, as the publishing industry has

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Even if you are signed with a top Publisher such as a Simon and Schuster or a Wiley or Random House, unless your are Deepak Chopra or Wayne Dyer, you are going to have to do your own publicity.

With this program, you will discover one of the most powerful almost zero-cost internet strategies that will help you gain massive visibility, credibility and prestige, boost your sales, get the media and influential industry
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A Study In Red: The Secret Journal of Jack the Ripper, Brian L Porter

A Study in Red - The Secret Journal of Jack the Ripper by Brian L Porter tells the story of Robert Cavendish, a modern day psychiatrist who is bequeathed a strange set of papers which purport to be the journal of the long-dead infamous Whitechapel Murderer whose crimes gripped the hearts and minds and instilled terror on the streets of Victorian London.
As he begins to read the journal, Robert becomes convinced of it's authenticity and finds that the words of the Ripper have a strange and compelling effect on him.
Unable to cast the pages aside he finds himself being drawn into the dark and sinister world of the killer until he is unable to distinguish what is fact and what is fantasy.
In short, Robert Cavendish begins to feel as though he is being taken over in some way by the soul of the long-dead Ripper.
What happens as he progresses through the journal will disturb and shock the reader as the close dividing line between sanity and madness is explored to the full.

Buy A Study In Red The Secret Journal of Jack the Ripper

Visit Brian L Porter's Website