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Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Looking Back At 2013, and Looking Forward to 2014

What a year!

I can honestly can I don't think I've ever been as busy as I was in 2013. This year I published two new novels,

Red Zone (Daniels Brothers #2)

After a case ended badly for Rebecca Carson, she’s losing her mind sitting around her apartment waiting on her superiors to allow her to return to work. Since she was a teenager, the only thing she’d ever wanted was to join the FBI. Now that dream was in danger.
Gage Daniels has made a pretty good life for himself. A nice house. A career he loves. As a professional football player, he’s used to getting almost everything he’d ever want with just the snap of his fingers. This includes women. A well-timed smile is usually all it takes to attract the opposite sex, especially in Nashville.
When a stalker threatens Gage, the team owner calls an old friend, Rebecca’s ex-partner Travis Hansen, to help protect his star quarterback and find the person responsible. Hansen offers Rebecca the job, and she jumps at the chance. It’s work, and it will get her out of her apartment. How bad can it be?
Posing as Gage’s girlfriend, however, isn’t as easy as it seems. The man is relentless. Rebecca must work to protect Gage while staving off his advances. She’s there to do a job, nothing more. The last thing she wants is to be another notch on a hotshot athlete’s belt.

As the stalker continues to up the ante, Rebecca finds it harder and harder to keep her distance from Nashville’s star quarterback. He isn’t what she expected in one of the city’s most notorious playboys. Now all she has to do is keep him safe until they can find his stalker, and hope she doesn’t lose her heart in the process.

and Trust (Finding Anna, Book 3)


For the last two months, Brianna has discovered something she never thought she would again. Hope. After the horror of being Ian’s slave for ten months, a fate she never imagined she’d escape, it feels as if she is living a dream. She has freedom she hadn’t expected to have again, and she wakes up every morning not fearing what the day will bring.



There is also Stephan. The man who saved her from the daily torture she had to endure at the hands of Ian and his friends. The same man who makes her heart race with just the thought of him. Life is good.



Outside forces are determined to conspire against them, however. When Brianna’s father shows up on her doorstep, it sends her world spiraling out of control. He brings with him new information about how Brianna ended up in Ian’s clutches, but will it make a difference? Will Stephan be able to find a way to make Ian pay for all he made Brianna suffer?




As Brianna and Stephan try to find out the truth, their relationship is tested. She is forced to face her past head on and deal with the ugly reality of what happened to her. Will Stephan’s love be enough to see her through her newest challenge, or will the fragile trust they’ve built come crumbling down around them as the truth makes itself known.


I also traveled to West Chester, OH, Colorado Springs, CO, Las Vegas, NV, Austin, TX, and Allen, TX. Throughout my travels I met some great people, authors and readers alike. Here are some pictures:

Lori Foster's Reader and Author Get Together - West Chester, OH
RomCon - Colorado Springs, CO

RNC - Las Vegas, NV










My biggest regret of 2013 is that I didn't get a whole lot of reading done. With all the traveling, I spent most of my time writing and editing. With that said, I did manage to get some new books read this year.

My favorite…

Hotblooded by Erin Nicholas

Her mama always said the women in their family were hotblooded…

And it’s been causing Brooke Donovan trouble her whole life. But it wasn’t until her mother took on the most powerful man in Honey Creek, Texas, that Brooke truly realized the daughter of the town whore didn’t stand a chance. When she left, it was supposed to be for good. But now, thanks to her late husband’s deal with their hometown, she’s back in the last place on earth she wants to be. Temporarily. As soon as her debts are paid off, she’s outta here. Until in walks the one man who can make her rethink everything.
Dr. Jack Silver fixes things. So, when he learns his uncle is responsible for Brooke losing her husband, his sense of honor drives him across Texas to make amends. Instead of a broken woman, though, he finds a gorgeous, feisty physician’s assistant trying to survive in a town that wants her gone. She also has a mile-high fence built out of pride—and a clinic that’s at risk of going belly up. She may not want his money, but the clinic? He can fix that. He just never expects that in setting Brooke back on her feet, he’ll be swept right off his own.
Click here to read my review. 

So what's next in 2014?


Right now I'm about 20 pages from finishing my re-edit of Hidden Threat. I'm hoping to have that finished within the next few days. After that, it will go to my publisher for polishing, and then reissue. If you've already purchased an ebook of Hidden Threat in the past, you should be able to download the updated version once it's available, which will also include the new cover.
Old Cover
New Cover      
Cali Stanton has one goal in life, being a doctor. She does not intend to run the family business. But when her father gets injured and tells her that she’s the only one he trusts, Cali finds herself behind his desk at Stanton Enterprises.



Matthew Andersen and his brother Jason have spent the last two years managing security at Stanton Enterprises. But when someone threatens the company and its CEO, challenging Matthew’s abilities, what seems like an easy task, becomes a big problem.



Cali and Matthew must fight their growing attraction for each other to avoid a potentially damaging office romance. As the threats continue, they must work together to keep the company running and discover who is behind the threats.



But when things escalate to violence and Cali becomes the latest target, things get personal. Can Matthew find the Hidden Threat before it’s too late?




I will also be releasing the 4th and final book in my Finding Anna Series, Trust. 

Available March 20, 2014.



Brianna is lost for the fourth time in her life. Each time was unexpected, and each changed the course of her future. The first life-altering event occurred when her mother died, and she moved to Minnesota to live with her father.

The second was when she was kidnapped at the age of seventeen and forced to be a slave. She would never forget those ten months. Brianna thought her life was over.

Everything changed again the day Stephan steamrolled into her life and brought her home to live with him. She had no idea what to expect—what life with her new Master would hold. That first month with Stephan was, in some ways, more confusing than the prior ten. As a slave, she’d known her place. With Stephan everything was new and different. He’d given her freedom and so much more.

Five months after Stephan rescued her, Brianna once again finds her life flipped upside down.
In this fourth, and final, installment of Finding Anna, Brianna must unearth strength she never knew she possessed. Stephan can no longer protect her from the outside world. She must learn to trust herself, embrace who she is, and discover who she wants to be. Only by facing her demons can Brianna find true happiness and peace.

Available Fall 2014


Crossing The Line (Daniels Brothers #3)

This will be the eldest brother, Paul's book. Paul is a homicide detective, and a widower. He's been alone for almost five years…since his wife was hit and killed by a drunk driver. It's about time he found  someone else to share his life with, and Megan thinks she's his perfect match.


Thursday, September 12, 2013

Review: Hotblooded by Erin Nicholas


Title: Hotblooded
Author: Erin Nicholas
Rating: 4 Stars
Source: Amazon

A nice easy read that had me rooting for the hero.




Hotblooded is the first book I’ve read by Erin Nicholas. I had no idea what to expect going into this book. Two years ago at the Lori Foster Reader and Author Get Together there was information about it in the goodie bag. I looked it up on Amazon, and added it to my TBR list. It had been so long since that happened, though, that I didn’t remember anything about it or what had peeked my interest.


The story is about a young woman, Brooke Donovan, who runs a clinic in a small town called Honey Creek. Her life isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, and she’s buying her time until she can leave. In strolls Jack Silver. He turns her life upside down in more ways than one, but for the life of her she can’t figure out if that’s a good thing or not.

I enjoyed this book. There were a few times when I wanted to shake the heroine, but even so I wanted to keep reading to see how these two would get their HEA. I loved Jack almost from the start. Sure he had a few moments where I was shaking my head at him, but given Brooke’s hot and cold attitude I thought his reactions were understandable for the most part.

The author did a great job with the characters back stories. I had another readers tell me they were frustrated with the heroine and felt she should just get over it, but things from our pasts can have a profound and lasting effect on us whether we want them to or not. It’s not always as simple as ‘getting over it’.

The reason I gave this book 4 stars instead of 5 was because there were a few minor editing issues and because there were a two brief moments in the story where I wanted to smack some sense into Brooke and move things along. Over all, though, it was a good read, and I will definitely be checking out more from this author in the future.

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About the Author



I've been reading romance since my mom first let me into her book cupboard when I was about fourteen. LaVyrle Spencer, Julie Garwood, Debbie Macomber... they took my 'happily ever after' ideas from animated princesses to real people in the real world.

I've been writing romance almost as long. Many a family car trip was spent with my head bent over a spiral notebook in the back seat. I'll confess that my very first attempts at fiction were fantasy and paranormals, influenced by my father's love of the Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, and the original Alice in Wonderland. If Harry Potter had been around, I'm sure he would have been on the bedtime story shelf as well.

But it wasn't long until I started writing about true love and that's where I've been ever since.

I'm so thrilled to be able to share these stories with you! I hope that they make you smile, sigh, maybe even choke up a little. Most of all, I hope that they help you believe in magical things like first kisses, the spark of passion, and the power of true love.

Monday, September 9, 2013

Weekly Update & Contest Announcement ~ September 9, 2013

Hello everyone. I hope you're having a great start to your week.


Writing & Editing


Writing is going good. I'm roughly 23K words into Paul's book, the third in my Daniels Brothers Series. For those of you who've been following this series, and have read Behind Closed Doors and Red Zone, you know that Paul is the eldest in the Daniels clan. He and his lady...and Chloe...have been keeping me on my toes.

I'm almost through the first round of edits for Finding Anna Book 4. Once that's finished, my lead editor and I will go through it one more time, and then it's off to the copy editor for all the fun grammar and spelling corrections. By the end of the copy edit, I should have a release date, so keep an eye out for that.


Reading

The last two years, reading hasn't been a priority for me. I've been so busy with writing and editing that I just didn't have time. I'm trying to change that.

Last Thursday, I posted a review of Once & Always by Grace Brannigan. If you missed my review, you can view it here.

Currently I'm working on Hotblooded by Erin Nicholas. It's a contemporary romance. I'm 63% into it, and I'm really enjoying the story. If you like contemporary romance, you should check this out. So far, I'm impressed, and I will most likely be checking out more books from this author in the future.


Hidden Threat

The big news last week was that my debut novel, Hidden Threat, was loaded to Netgalley. Hidden Threat was one of the first titles released by my publisher, TWCS. Because of that, it's not only getting a fresh new cover, but we are in the process of re-editing it as well. Look for the re-release coming soon, along with a blog tour.


Contest Announcement


Want to win one of these signed bookmarks?

All you have to do is sign up for my newsletter. Everyone who is signed up for my newsletter by the end of September will be entered to win one of these eight signed Behind Closed Doors bookmarks. This contest is open internationally. The sign up here.