Friday, April 18, 2014

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 Sahara Lee has spent the last ten years living with the guilt of a tragic accident and its aftermath. That night irrevocably changed the outgoing, fun-loving college freshman into an introverted, workaholic with no social life. Sahara isolates herself from everyone and everything that reminds her of home in an effort to forget what happened. Using art as a substitute for love, Sahara throws herself into music and art as a way to feel something other than the guilt that haunts her. She accepts her lonely existence as penance for the role she played in the accident. That is, until she meets Tyree Barker, the good looking entrepreneur with baggage of his own.

Blindsided by a legal loophole, Sahara is suddenly forced to confront the past she’s been running from. Juggling the guilty feelings of her past and the unexpected feelings of her present, Sahara’s future becomes complicated as she heads down a path of forgiveness, love, and heartbreak…and not in that particular order.

Back to Life reminds you that living and existing are two completely different ways to go through life. Grief will break you but guilt, guilt will destroy you. And once that happens, what can bring you back to life?









 

I am a married event planner and life coach. My awesome friends and family and my amazing husband make my life sweet. I love to have fun and enjoy the life I’ve been blessed with. I love shopping and football with equal fervor. I’m an amateur movie critic (i.e. my husband and I watch and critique a lot of movies for fun). I love to read and I enjoy sharing my love of books with anyone who will listen. I love music. A good lyric with a good melody can paint a vivid picture and invoke such a range of emotions. I have a soft spot for most mediums of creative, artistic expression.

I plan.
I teach.
I read.
I write.
I watch.
I critique.
I shop.
I play.
I love.

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Friday, April 11, 2014

Author Interview: Desires by Galia Ryan





Desires by GaliaRyan

Description:


Anna is one of Elite Escort Agency's most popular call girls. She is quite comfortable living in the lap of luxury and pleasing a variety of wealthy men on her own terms; however, she longs to return to respectability. Only now she is accustomed to the best of everything. So Anna embarks on a quest to discover what else she is good for, other than dazzling every man who crosses her path.

Anna's calm is shattered when a former client resurfaces. A few years earlier Adam introduced Anna to bondage and submission. But although he held her in his thrall, Adam overestimated his power. When he demanded total surrender, she cut herself off from him forever. Now Adam is asking to see her again. Initially she refuses, but what can she do? She can't stop thinking about him.

The owner of Elite, Stephanie, is also haunted by memories of a former lover--Giancarlo, now married and dedicated to charitable work. When, after ten years, they come together once more, neither can resist the pull of their unresolved past, despite the possible consequences to Giancarlo's career.

Desires is Book 3 of the Luxuria Trilogy. It completes the cycle that began with Anna's story in Choices and Stephanie's in Secrets.




Interview:


I fell in love with Anna in CHOICES and I was so happy to see her again in DESIRES.  I felt like there was a lot more to her story!  If I am not mistaken, you had initially intended to end Anna’s story with CHOICES – what made you decide to wrap up the trilogy with where it all began – with Anna?

You’re right.  Anna was meant to be a standalone book, with the following stories going back in time, each picking up a character from the previous book.  So, Anna, then Stephanie, and lastly Olivia.  But so many readers wanted to know what choice Anna made, that my publisher Catherine felt the third book should go forward, and tie up all the loose ends instead.

The LUXURIA Trilogy features some sexy and (ultimately) confident women.  Where do you draw inspiration for your characters?  Are any of the women similar in personality to you?

I love strong women.   Perhaps because my mother was one, and it was thanks to her our family had such a solid base.  Are any of my characters similar to me?  Well, an older relative recently described me to one of my children as headstrong!  But I do believe in getting out there and doing it, rather than simply talking about it.
There’s a slogan that sticks in my mind.  Finishing last will always be better than did not finish, which always trumps did not start.

Now that you have three books under your belt, do you have any plans for other books, if so what can we expect?

More of the same, since I love writing erotica.  I am contracted for another novel and six short stories, to be published throughout the year and then gathered for an anthology in 2015.  Two have already been submitted, and yes, they both feature strong women!   Another features a two-worlds-colliding theme, and a strong, determined, glass-ceiling-crashing woman with a yearning to be sexually dominated.  The more powerful she is in her public life, the more desperate and vulnerable her private life becomes.

Who is someone you really admire and why?

A lovely man, and good friend in Australia. Three years ago Stephen Want had a crazy idea to take part in an Ironman competition.   The reason it was crazy is because Stephen is very heavily overweight due to circumstances outside his control.

Well, he found a personal trainer, and bought a bike and started cycling to work.  He had a three-year goal.  Three years of hard work, and then the Ironman event.  As part of his focus he entered triathlons and other events along the way, and was soon recognized by those cheering on from the sidelines.  Known as ‘Lunchbox’ to his many friends, he is now equally often described as the People’s Athlete because, still heavily overweight, he has gained huge respect for pitting himself against world-class sportsmen and women, and never giving up.

Does your family know you write sexy books or is that something you keep under wraps?  Either way, what do they think about it or what would they think?

Close family and friends do, and while my children are very proud of my achievements, I know they wished I wrote something a little less mortifying!

Were you *really* “convent educated from the age of four”?  What’s the naughtiest thing you ever did in school?

Yes, I was convent educated from four.  First, with Our Lady of the Missions, then the Canonesses of St Augustine.  Both were good schools, and I have to say, the education has stood me in good stead throughout my life.   Naughty?  Oh yes!  The one incident that immediately springs to mind was when I was eleven or so, and caught adorning the angels either side of the main chapel entrance with Easter bonnets - in reality birds nest’s found in the convent grounds.  The statues were almost life-size, and having climbed the framework of one of the doors, I was reaching to place the second ‘bonnet’, and wondering how long it would take the nuns to notice them, when I heard the furious voice of Reverend Mother behind me!

If you were stranded on a deserted island with no chance of being rescued in the foreseeable future, what items/people would you most like to have in the following categories?

a) A man other than your husband/significant other

I can’t think of one!  Maybe Hugh Jackman or Gerard Butler – but I don’t think that would go down too well somehow!

b) Food Item

Thankfully my husband loves sea fishing, and is good at it!  So it would have to be something to enjoy with whatever he caught.  A dozen cases of a good white wine immediately comes to mind!

c) Luxury item you can't live without

My iMac

d) Album/CD

Oh so hard!  Can I cheat and make it a homemade compilation of all my favourite tracks?  After all I’d need upbeat sounds to maintain my positive energy, and soft, slow music for those lovely nights, lying on the beach, watching the sunset.

e) Book

This is too difficult!  Something I could dip in and out of, rather than something I would devour in one sitting. Non-fiction, and huge and historical.

Do you use beta readers?

Yes, four, and I value them immensely since they connect me with my readers.  Two are very good at pointing out flaws, and where adjustments need to be made, the other two are purely emotional.  As in – “OMG, I couldn’t believe she…” or “Oh, wasn’t he just lovely, and that bit where…”

One such comment for Secret was, “You know, I really didn’t like (the main character) at first, but half way though I thought, Wow! Yes! You go girl!”  Which was exactly the reaction I’d hoped for.

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About the Author:

Convent-educated from the age of four, Galia Ryan was brought up not to question. Perhaps because of this, she has always been fascinated by all things esoteric and “outside the square.” Originally from Sussex, England, and now living in New Zealand with her soul-mate husband and grown-up family, Galia tries to find time between her passions for writing and reading and for her other love—travel. There is always a growing list of must-see places. Desires is the third novel in the Luxuria Trilogy, which began with Choices. Book 2, Secrets, tells Stephanie’s story. Galia is currently working on an anthology of short stories. You can find her on the Web at: Galiaryan.fannypress.com.

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Thursday, April 10, 2014

Double Book Review: Choices AND Secrets by Galia Ryan

Description:  Anna is broke. Really broke. Credit cards maxed out. Store cards, too. She can’t make her repayments and there’s nowhere to turn. Educated, intelligent, and—until recently—upwardly mobile, Anna is forced to make a choice. Sink or swim. And swimming means finding a part-time job to complement her full-time career. One that would pay enough to get her head above water. Except that part-time jobs don’t pay. Usually. Drawn into the sordid world of private escorts, Anna discovers there is little she won’t do for money, lots and lots of money. She even starts to enjoy the sex. Until she meets an unusually seductive client who introduces her to the world of Dominance and submission. Then everything changes.

Review:  I really enjoyed this book.  Anna's reasons for needing to turn to Escorting were really believable and drew me into believing her predicament.  I enjoyed seeing Anna progress from shy and timid in her role as Escort to confident and in control.  The title Choices comes from the fact that she ends up sort of "dating" two different men.  One is a client who has a dominant/submissive sexually charged relationship with her and the other has no idea about her Escort job and has the tradition hearts and flowers romantic relationship.  Although both men bring different and equally fulfilling lifestyle choices for her, I personally found myself rooting for Team Dom/Sub.  The scenes with him were VERY hot and I found myself rereading them often.  This book was a great start to a great trilogy.




Description:  Stephanie is a wild child, abandoned by her mother, spoiled by her father. Nothing is off-limits—even her father’s business partner—and bargaining her virginity for a summer on the Côte d’Azur is only the beginning.


But Stephanie is smart, too.

Through her lover Charles she meets Olivia, who ushers her into another world. One of wealth, opportunity, and sex. Lots of sex. Gaining entrance to society via the beds of the elite, Stephanie is on the brink of having it all.

What could possibly change?

Review:  This was a great follow up book to Secrets.  When you meet Stephanie in Secrets all you see is this Dominant woman who seems to know exactly what to say and do to get Anna to do exactly what she wants.  This books picks up Stephanie when she is just a teenager.  Although it seems that even from this young age she was already used to manipulating people into getting exactly what she wants.  It was no shock to me that the book starts with Stephanie basically selling her virginity for a summer in 
Côte d’Azur to an older man that is friends/business partners with her father.  But it is this background information that really helps me understand more about how Stephanie became the woman I saw in the first book.  Her story is equally as fascinating as Anna's (and has some really great, hot, sex scenes as well!) and I enjoyed finding out more about her.  I can't wait to see how both women end up in the last book, Desires.

About the Author:  Convent-educated from the age of four, Galia Ryan was brought up not to question. Perhaps because of this, she has always been fascinated by all things esoteric and “outside the square.” Originally from Sussex, England, and now living in New Zealand with her soul-mate husband and grown-up family, Galia tries to find time between her passions for writing and reading and for her other love—travel. There is always a growing list of must-see places.  CHOICES was her first novel, and the first of the Luxuria Trilogy which also includes SECRETS and DESIRES.  Galia is currently working on an anthology of short stories.


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Monday, April 7, 2014

COVER REVEAL & GIVEAWAY: Nashville Trio, a Music City Ménage by Joy Daniels





Nashville Trio, A Music City Ménage 
by Joy Daniels


Description:

Music City, USA 

After years of hard work country music duo Sweet Talk is on the verge of success. Singer Ashley Ford swore off the romantic entanglements that cost her mother her musical career, but her playing has fallen flat. She needs a spark. 

Where inspirations strikes 

Co-singer Rob usually find his pleasure with men, but when Ashley runs back to the arms of her ex lover Ty, he realizes that he’s no longer content being only a friend. 

A tangled trio 

Pride kept Ty from pursing Ashley to Nashville. When Ashley returns to his bed, Ty vows not to give her up again, even if it means sharing her with a man he finds aggravating – and surprisingly attractive.


When secrets and ambition seem poised to destroy her chance to be a star, Ashley must decide if she’s willing to risk it all for a Nashville Trio.






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50 adds to Goodreads TBR OR a winner in the first 24 hours if 50 have been added at the time of the reveal - ARC of Nashville Trio 

• 100 adds to Goodreads TBR - ARC of Nashville Trio + ecopy of Revving Her Up 

• 150 adds to Goodreads TBR - ARC of Nashville Trio + ecopy of Revving Her Up + $10 iTunes giftcard 

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• 250 adds to Goodreads TBR - ARC of Nashville Trio + ecopy of Revving Her Up + $10 or $25 iTunes giftcard + $10 or $25 Amazon giftcard (they get to choose one at $10 and one at $25 for a total of $35)

• 300 adds to Goodreads TBR - ARC of Nashville Trio + ecopy of Revving Her Up +  $25 iTunes giftcard + $25 Amazon giftcard (total of $50)





About the Author:


I write erotic romance because I like to expose my characters completely – strengths, flaws and scars. My debut novella, Revving Her Up, was the first story in the Full Throttle series, which focuses on the bad boys – and girls – of stock car racing. It was a Night Owl Reviews Top Pick, and has been called "one heck of a sexy ride" (Sizzling Hot Books), and "a hell of a sexy read" (Read-Love-Blog). I am currently working on the next two stories in the series.



My newest novel, Nashville Trio, is a steamy MMF ménage novel about a country singer and the two very different men in her life. It comes out May 5, 2014.



New Adult romance is my new favorite passion. I love writing stories with angst and heart, heart-melting kisses, and happy endings. I'm currently working on two New Adults series. The first, RunningScared , is about a Boston University student and the bodyguard hired to protect her from herself. It will be out in August 2014. The second series is a trilogy (Scarred, Burned, and Marked) about three friends bound together by a terrible tragedy and the scars it left behind.



I'm originally from New York City, (and still a loyal Yankees fan!), but since moving south, I've developed passions for NASCAR and country music. Both feature in my recent stories. In addition to writing (and reading) I enjoy yoga, bellydancing, and growing veggies in the Washington, D.C. area with my scientist husband and two curious kids. I'm active in the Washington Romance Writers, and the Maryland Romance Writers, and have been a member of the Romance Writers of America (RWA) since 2009.



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