Valentine's Contest Most Deadly

My paranormal novella, The Pendant is being offered as the Valentine's Contest Most Deadly on the Books We Love site.  There will be ten winners of the story, a pendant as shown on the cover, and one lucky entrant will also receive some Godiva chocolates.  If you don't win, the novella will be offered through the KDP program for only 99 cents.  Hope you enjoy.

Here's the blurb for this one-of-a-kind story...no hero or heroine..just an inanimate object that gets passed down through the years:

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Can you consider a necklace a gift if it makes you angry enough to kill?  A simple trinket left in a confessional begins a pain of destruction throughout the years.  

The silver pendant, left behind by a woman who killed her boyfriend, is supposedly cursed; at least that’s what she claimed before she raced out of the church. Anyone who dares fasten the locket around her neck suffers severe and uncontrollable anger. Woe be it to anyone who gets in the path of the wearer. Is the piece cursed, or are the deaths totally unrelated? Detective Clarence O’Day is unwilling to make the connection—until forty years after the first case.

http://bookswelove.com/books-we-love-contests/ CLICK HERE TO ENTER

Cover by Michelle Lee

Hooray for the KDP Program

I'm so excited to be part of Books We Love and even more so that they were willing to "experiment" with the Kindle Direct Program.  I've realizing better sales on two books there than I've seen on all my books combined before.  It's nice to finally realize a profit, even though I've always told myself that I never got into this business for the money.  Until now, it was a viable justification since I never saw money enough to cover my promotional expenses.

I don't know what magic goes on behind the scenes that prompts so many to buy a book that is given away free in days preceding the "spotlight time," but I'm not questioning what works.  In case you didn't grab your own free copy of First Degree Innocence or Embezzled Love, I've happy to tell you that they'll be up for grabs again in the coming month.  In the meantime, today I'm blogging at Ravencraft's Romance Realm where you can leave a comment and perhaps win your own PDF. 

If reviews are your cup of tea, then Reagan Black is also featuring moi today as I bitc....er talk about the subjectivity of those oft-sought written opinions.  I'm not offering a prize, but you never know...I just might surprise someone who comments here and leaves on there, too.  :)  I'm full of it.  Surprises, that is!!!

Let me tell you....when you see an unsolicited email like this appear on the loop... "Hi--just started Embezzled Love and wanted to say anyone who isn't just grabbed in the first few pages must be a corpse.

I love the older heroine!"

That's better than any review I could ever hope for.  Picture me smiling. 

Welcome Kerri Nelson...

I have the distinct pleasure of hosting today's guest as she weeds her way along on her book tour.  Please notice her generous offer of giveaways at the bottom.  I didn't realize she was so cute...or so active.  WTG, Kerri, and welcome to Dishin' It Out.

Author Bio:

Kerri Nelson discovered her love of writing at an early age and soon became a columnist for her local newspaper winning the Outstanding Young Journalist of the Year Award for her efforts.

After a fifteen year career in the legal field, Kerri fulfilled her lifelong dream of publication and is now an award winning multi-published author of nearly every genre under the sun (and moon) and also writes young adult fiction under the penname K.G. Summers. 

A true southern belle, she comes complete with a dashing southern gentleman and three adorable children for whom she often bakes many homemade treats. 

Kerri is an active member of Sisters in Crime and Romance Writers of America as well as numerous chapters including Futuristic Fantasy & Paranormal Writers and her Presidency of Celtic Hearts Romance Writers.

Read more about Kerri’s books at her website:  www.kerrinelson.com

Follow her on Twitter here:  www.twitter.com/kerribookwriter

Visit her industry blog here:  www.thebookboost.blogspot.com

Blurb:

Paisley Barton was already having a bad day before she turned her husband into a rat.
First, she was fired by her boss and then came home to find hubby in the shower with a naked blonde chick. They say that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned but this break-up may just unleash hell on Earth when Paisley casts a spell of vengeance against her philandering husband.
After her spell casting inadvertently opens a portal between dimensions, Paisley finds her family home transformed into a nightly courtroom for settling disputes between demons of the underworld and she’s the judge! If that’s not enough, she’s got to deal with a charming, ancient demon named Camden who wants to be her personal bodyguard while trying to explain her husband’s sudden, mysterious disappearance to sexy police Detective Dalton Briggs.
But Paisley will show them all that an everyday working mom is better equipped than most to deal with the mystical mayhem…and with a tempting demon hottie and a flirtatious young detective vying for her affection, she soon learns that being single again isn’t so bad after all.
“When a wronged wife turns her cheating husband into a rat, you know you have to keep reading! Kerri Nelson offers up a lot of fun and wild magic in Courting Demons!” --Bestselling author, Linda Wisdom, Demons are a Girl’s Best Friend

Are You a Mood Prude?

It is no secret…I’ve been described as “moody”.  Just ask my husband.  Or my children.

I have quite a few mood swings (some days more than others) but mood swings are often described as a bad thing.  Even listed as potential side effects for common medications.  Now, of course, there are some moods that can be dangerous but I’m not talking about those.  I’m talking about the typical…happy, sad, pensive, melancholy, followed by ecstatic.

That’s kind of a typical week for me.  I think it can be attributed to all the emotions that I’m constantly siphoning through my characters on a daily basis.  At any one time I might be working on two or more different projects.  One book might be a comical historical with bosoms bulging while another might be an action packed thriller with violence and edge of your seat suspense.

And that’s just what I’m writing.  At the same time I might be editing yet another  novel—sexy adventure on the high seas—and still yet I might be reading a book about parenthood and angst of coping with my toddlers’ tantrums (yes, I have more than 1 toddler).

As you can see, my daily dose of reading and writing could lead me down any one of many different emotions.  How is a girl supposed to just turn those off and on in the blink of an eye?  Some folks might be able to but I know I can’t. 

But is this necessarily a bad thing?  I mean, people often connotate “you’re moody” with you’re being a royal pain in the “you know what”.  That’s not necessarily the only mood a person can be.  And I think that being moody makes my writing more interesting.  So, I’m going to state today that I’m moody and proud of it. 

Kinda wish there weren’t so many mood prudes out there, though.  What’s your attitude toward moods?  Do you think you’re a moody person?  Do you think an author who is in touch with their multitude of moods creates more realistic characters?

Today I’m in a very nervous and anxious mood as I have a doctor’s appointment coming up later this afternoon.  But hopefully all will be good and by tonight I’ll be all smiles.  If not, there’s always tomorrow.

Thanks for hosting today, Ginger.  Can’t wait to hear about everyone’s mood attitude!

©  Kerri Nelson 2011

Buy Links (print and e-book versions available 9/15 wherever books are sold but here’s the publisher link—free gift available with purchase of print copy—while supplies last):

http://jupitergardens.com/Courting-Demons-by-Kerri-Nelson-print.html

or

Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/Courting-Demons-ebook/dp/B005OAY7TG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1316621839&sr=8-1

Giveaway for the day:

Leave a question or comment to be entered to win today’s prize: 1001 Books for Every Mood (Autographed Copy)!

Then, enter to win my book tour Grand Prize Kindle by following me on tour and e-mailing me the answers to each question of the day at the end of tour.  The more questions you answer, the more entries you gain.

Question of the Day: 

What is the name of the book that Paisley is holding on the cover of Courting Demons?

Details on how to enter to win the GRAND PRIZE Kindle at the end of my “Dark Days of Demons Tour” located here:

http://kerribookwriter.blogspot.com/2011/09/courting-demons-blog-tour-win-kindle.html

Excerpt link for Courting Demons: http://www.jupitergardens.com/excerpts/kn_cd.html

Help give my heroine a nick name

The heroine in my WIP is a highly intelligent woman, who has a lot of self-doubts and is very klutzy. Her name is Leslie McAllister. I can change the last name, but not the first. Leslie is a character in my Christmas story release - A COWBOY'S DREAM. I asked a few days ago for some suggestions (on my blog). All of them were great. Thanks for taking the time to help.

I then asked a few friends of mine to read over the suggestions and pick their top three. I'm posting them here, so you can vote on them.

Dizzy Lizzy
Hurricane Leslie
Miss Accident Prone
Grace
Messy Lessy
Klutzy Lutzy

Please vote once and by midnight, Friday August 15th. The person who suggested the winning name will receive WILD WOMEN OF THE WEST an anthology with stories by Delilah Devlin, Layla Chase and Myla Jackson. This book is rated REALLY HOT.

And everyone who votes will be in a special drawing for TEXAS RAIN by Jodi Thomas.

Thanks!

~Anna Kathryn

MORE LUCKY WINNERS

Lucky Winners!

Well folks, as promised I'm ready to give the following people a FREE pdf of one of my titles:

Virginia
ddurance
peggy
Theresa Norris

If you would email me Privately at: pthib07@hotmail.com and put Blogfest Winner in your subject line, I'll send your choice of book.

Thanks for participating!
Pamela S Thibodeaux
"Inspirational with an Edge!"

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