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Read The Boy on the Bridge by Effrosyni Moschoudi @FrostieMoss #RLFblog #PNR
A teenage boy with the power of prophecy changes the life of a loving young couple in Effrosyni Moschoudi’s new paranormal romance novella, The Boy on the Bridge. Set in a Greek mountain village, this suspenseful story will intrigue you in every page until the identity of the teenage boy is fully revealed…
Effrosyni, welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! Please tell us about The Boy on the Bridge.
The Boy on the Bridge by Effrosyni Moschoudi
Genre paranormal romance novella
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): PG (sweet romance)
A young man determined to protect his girl… A teenage boy offering prophecies… and a series of unexplained events.
Lefteris and his darling girl, Evgenia, live a quiet and happy life together in a mountain village in Zagori, Greece. One day, as Lefteris crosses an old stone bridge, he meets a teenage boy who warns him that Evgenia is in danger and gives him instructions to follow.
Lefteris doubts him, but does as he is told, just in case. The warning turns into reality and the girl is saved, so the next time the boy warns of danger, Lefteris is more willing to listen…
What follows is a series of astounding events as the boy’s prophecies of mortal danger continue, and Lefteris does his best to protect his girl. Now, he considers reverting to his old ways of solving all differences with his fists. Will he allow himself to resort to violence? How does the mysterious boy on the bridge fit in all this? And why does he refuse to meet Evgenia?
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Do you write more than one genre? If so, what are they?
My novels are paranormal or fantasy romances. Most are sweet, one of them is clean and wholesome, and there’s also a Christian fantasy among them.
How do you come up with ideas?
My beloved Greek island of Corfu inspires me more than anything else. I was once inspired to write The Raven Witch of Corfu as I swam in the sea there gazing at a mountain – the place where, in the story, the witch has her secret dwelling. Other of my published stories have come to me out of the blue, either while I relaxed on the beach, or in bed in a half-awake state. I never really force myself to come with an idea. I find the best ones come to me unprompted. I get ideas all the time, but I don’t write them down or anything. Experience has shown that the ones worth exploring will persist in my head anyway.
What is the single most important part of writing for you?
Editing. No question about it. For me, a perfectly polished MS is a must. As a reader, I get jolted and put off if I am reading a book that’s full of typos or syntax errors. Or even worse – plot holes… Once these things become repetitive, the joy of reading goes out the window. At that point, I don’t care how good the story is, I’ll stop reading. This is why I am committed to offering my readers high-quality reads and nothing less.
When did you write your first book?
I started writing my first novel, The Necklace of Goddess Athena, when I was a student in Athens University in my early twenties. It was a slow process, until I got my first job upon graduation and then I completely set it aside. Twenty years of work in the corporate world later, I found myself unemployed with loads of free time on my hands. I still thank my lucky stars for the Greek financial crisis back in 2010 as that’s when I was led to discover the joys of creating new worlds out of thin air. I finished the book within one year and kept on writing!
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Leather or lace? Lace. Leather is uncomfortable. And I am too old for uncomfortable.
Black or red? Black.
Satin sheets or smooth cotton? Any type of cotton. Flannel is even better.
Ocean or mountains? Ocean.
City life or country life? Country life forever!
Party life or evening at home? Guess what? You’re talking to the Queen of Cocooning!
Dogs or cats? I love and have had both, but only have two cats at the moment.
Where to buy The Boy on the Bridge
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08MQVQG8G
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Effrosyni Moschoudi was born and raised in Athens, Greece. As a child, she loved to sit alone in her garden scribbling rhymes about flowers, butterflies and ants. Today, she writes books for the romantic at heart. She lives in a quaint seaside town near Athens with her husband, two cats, and a ridiculous amount of books and DVDs. Her little town is heavenly enough, yet her mind forever drifts to her beloved island of Corfu.
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Read the entire series: Cruise Ship Chaos by Karen Cino @karencino #RLFblog #Cozy Mystery with Romantic Elements
A vacation on a cruise ship turns into chaos in Karen Cino’s new cozy mystery romance.
Karen, welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! Please tell us about your series.
Cruise Ship Chaos in the Cookie Cutter Cozy Mystery (#6)
Genre Cozy Mystery Contemporary Romance
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): PG17
Connie and Sara go on a cruise with their detective boyfriends. This is the first time Connie is on a cruise. Even though she was reluctant at first, she quickly settles into their suite. This trip was about relaxing and not worrying about solving murders. However, as Connie and Brett are making their way to their room, the elevator door open to a staged dead body. Once again, the women are on the case. Will they be able to solve the case before they become the next victims?
Which book is this in the series?
This is the 6th book in the series.
How many books do you plan for the series?
I plan on doing at least 10.
How many books are completed?
Six book are competed and are available as both an ebook and in paperback.
What characters are the main stars in your series?
Best friends Connie Acosta and Sara Mazza
What is the overall theme in this series?
The overall them in the Cookie Cutter Cozy Mystery series if to show how two women in their late fifties are in search of love the second time around. And how when two best friends team up together, they find themselves in the middle of murder investigations.
Please list the series titles below, in any order you prefer.
New Beginnings (#1)
Chaos at the Compound (#2)
Drama Club Chaos (#3)
Women’s Club Chaos (#4)
Men’s Club Chaos (#5)
Cruise Ship Chaos (#6)
What did you like best about writing this series?
Watching Connie and Sara reinvent their life and finding love the second time around.
What other books (not in this series, have you written?)
Roses
The Boardwalk
Love Challenges and Desires
Mystical Wonders Series
Circle of Friend (#1)
Second Chances (#2)
The Right Call (#3)
Survival (#4)
Seaside Boulevard Series
The Perfect Pitch (#1)
A Different Kind of Perfect (#2)
Another Kind of Perfect (#3)
Where to buy Cruise Ship Chaos
Publisher Mandolay Press
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KHLC78H
Karen Cino Social Media
Karen Cino is multi-published and has been writing since she was fourteen years old. She started her career by writing poetry, short stories and writing articles for her high school newspaper. Her daily walks down at the boardwalk are what gets her muse going. It clears her mind and helps her find realistic plot ideas and the characters boosting up her muse. Karen loves writing about local places that people can relate to.
Karen loves the summer, loves the beach. She is a member of Romance Writers of America, Women’s Fiction Writing Association, Liberty States Fiction Writers and Mystery Writers of America. She served as President and Vice President of the New York City Romance Writer’s Chapter.
Karen Cino Social Media
Karen Cino is multi-published and has been writing since she was fourteen years old. She started her career by writing poetry, short stories and writing articles for her high school newspaper. Her daily walks down at the boardwalk are what gets her muse going. It clears her mind and helps her find realistic plot ideas and the characters boosting up her muse. Karen loves writing about local places that people can relate to.
Karen loves the summer, loves the beach. Her previous books were written and take place in various places across Staten Island. Karen relocated to Barnegat, New Jersey in 2015. She traded in the Staten Island Boardwalk for the shoreline in Long Beach Island. Her Camp Mirage Series takes place in Barnegat, NJ.
Karen is a member of Romance Writers of America, Women’s Fiction Writing Association and Liberty States Fiction Writers. She was Vice President of the New York City Chapter for four years and President for three.
Karen has two adult children, Michael Giordano who’s a singer, songwriter and producer and Nicole Giordano who works in Retail Management and is also a photographer. In 2014 Karen married John Gatti. Her husband is an actor, teacher and attorney.
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Coming Soon: For This Christmas Only by Caro Carson @TheCaroCarson #RLFblog #ChristmasRomance #ContemporaryRomance #HometownHoliday
An all-new Christmas romance from the author behind the current Netflix hit, “Hometown Holiday.” For This Christmas Only unites a disillusioned icon of the business world with one of his biggest fans. Can she use the advice from his book to inspire him to open his heart to happiness–and to her? It just might be the Christmas miracle they both need.
Caro Carson, welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! Please tell us about For This Christmas Only.
For This Christmas Only by Caro Carson
Genre Contemporary Romance
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): PG
His book changed her life…
But he no longer believes his own advice.
After nearly dying in a plane crash, business icon Eli Taylor has become a recluse. A chance encounter at a small town’s Yule log lighting leads to an evening spent as the fake boyfriend of his superfan Mallory Ames. When she finds herself homeless for the holidays, he invites her to stay with him—if she’ll return the favor and be his fake girlfriend, so he can show his siblings what a loving partnership should look like. Their arrangement will end when the new year begins…or will it?
Where to buy For This Christmas Only
Publisher Harlequin Special Edition
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Despite a no-nonsense background as a West Point graduate and U.S. Army officer, Caro Carson has always treasured the happily-ever-after of a good romance novel. After her military service, she worked in the healthcare industry with a Fortune 100 company, talking science with doctors who were rarely handsome bachelor Texans like the doctors in her books. Now a USA Today bestselling author and RITA™ award winner, Caro is delighted to be living her own happily-ever-after with her husband (who actually is a handsome Texan) and their two children. They live in the great state of Florida, a location which has saved the coaster-loving theme park fanatics a fortune on plane tickets.
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Harmony’s Embrace by Amber Daulton @amberdaulton1 #RLFblog #NewRelease #RomanticSuspense
Reuniting with the man who broke her heart has never felt so right. Falling back into love, the theme of Harmony’s Embrace by Amber Daulton.
Amber, welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! Please tell us about your book.
Harmony’s Embrace by Amber Daulton
Genre Romantic Suspense
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): PG-13
Divorced dad Birley Haynes is too busy raising his children and running his family’s music academy to start a relationship. Then Harmony Holdich, his high school sweetheart, returns home to Willow Springs, Vermont for Christmas and falls into his bed. She brings light and fun back into his life, but he can’t brush aside the threatening incidents around his workplace.
Harmony hadn’t expected a complication like Birley, especially so soon after the death of her unfaithful husband. With her life a mess, she plans to move across the country and start over. All she can offer him is a fling, but her heart yearns for more.
When the threats rise, how will Birley keep his children safe and convince Harmony to give love another chance?
Why did you write this book?
Harmony’s Embrace is part of the multi-author Deerbourne Inn series, in which I’d already written one book, Lyrical Embrace. As I was writing Lyrical, I introduced a secondary character that really needed a good woman in his life.
Birley Haynes was so focused on work and taking care of his children that he’d forgotten how to relax and have fun. I wanted him to be happy and to find a mother figure for his adorable kids.
A few ideas bounced around in my head for about a year, but I couldn’t decide on Birley’s love interest.
Would she be a stranger coming to his small town of Willow Springs for whatever reason?
Would she be his ex-wife, who ran away from her responsibilities and now regrets her foolhardy decision?
Or would she be his high school sweetheart who never stopped loving him?
After I finally decided on the heroine—bachelorette number 3!—the plot fell together easily.
What is your favorite genre to read?
Romantic Suspense and Paranormal are tied in first place. Give me bad boys, criminals, and secret agents, or vampires and shifters—I’m not picky.
Who is your favorite character from fiction (not including your own)?
I’m not sure. I really like The Hunger Games movies, and the books are on my ever-growing TBR list. So I have to go with the awesome Katness Everdeen.
What are you working on at the moment?
I’m currently revising Ryan’s Temptation, a novella in my Arresting Onyx series. It follows sassy beautician Chanel Leroc and her sexy blond neighbor Ryan Naylor. After they witness the brutal death of a prostitute and the killer sets his sights on them, they must go into Witness Protection for their own safety. This fast-paced romantic suspense thriller is sure to keep readers on the edge of their seats!
What books will we see from you in coming months?
Hopefully, Ryan’s Temptation will be out in Summer 2021.
Where to buy Harmony’s Embrace
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08L73TB9C/
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Amber Daulton is the author of the romantic-suspense series Arresting Onyx and several standalone novellas. Her books are published through The Wild Rose Press and Books to Go Now, and are available in ebook, print on demand, audio, and foreign language formats.
She lives in North Carolina with her husband and demanding cats.
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Is It True: The Prank by Lyncee Shillard @lyncee #RLFblog #RomanticSuspense
An interview of a lifetime turns into a deadly game of cat and mouse in Lyncee Shillard’s The Prank. Emilee travels to Alaska only to learn she’s been tricked, and the punch line could be her life. In this romance suspense, Emilee and Jeremy fight for their lives and their feelings.
Welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Let’s play Is It True with today’s guest, Lyncee Shillard. This is a game with yes and no questions. Writers can elaborate on answers as much as they choose.
The Prank by Lyncee Shillard
Genre Adventure Romance
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): R
When Emilee Sawyer learns the reclusive billionaire Ted McGraft is going to an Alaska animal reserve, she sees it as her break. An interview of a lifetime. When she arrives, she learns it was a prank set up by her cousin. Only it isn’t funny, it’s deadly when Emilee becomes the target of a serial killer.
Jeremy Hanks had a bad feeling about Emilee Sawyer but the reserve could use some positive exposure after all the mudslinging of a local developer. The moment she arrives, he knows the smart thing would be to send her away. Instead, he lets the sexy reporter stay. A mistake that may cost them both their lives.
Is it true:
this is your first book?
It isn’t.
this book is part of a series?
It wasn’t but has developed into one
you lost sleep while writing this book?
Sooooo much sleep.
you did research for this book?
It is set on a wood bison reserve so I did – wood bison are NOT cute
some characters in this book are not human? (pets for example)
Jeremy has a wolf dog
this book has more than one genre?
no
you speak more than one language?
Yes. English and doughnut
you grew up where you live now?
Yes. Well, not the same house but the same area.
you love to read?
I love love love love to read
you are never late?
I take start time as a suggestion
you love pizza?
Only if it has BBQ sauce on it
you love sushi?
Only if it’s cooked
you have a pet?
The mighty Milo
Where to buy The Prank
Universal Buy Link https://books2read.com/u/m2ZLBd
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I live in the cold Northern Michigan (the place of four seasons – they lie! It’s just different levels of winter) with my husband. Our children have begun their own adventures, and just as I got into the swing of empty nest, then my grandson came to live with us. Now I’m doing 7 again… they argue everything just case you forgot. And I now remember why I eat doughnuts. When I’m not hanging out with the 7-year-old, I’m writing, reading, crocheting, and making self-care products. I also enjoy taking pictures, I’m not claiming to have a talent it’s just something I like to do.
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Read Beyond Duty by LA Remenicky @Remenickywrites #RLFblog #ContemporaryRomance
After serving in the Marine Corps, Jessie Monroe has finally found a life beyond war and then he happens upon a curvy blonde stranded with a flat tire and no jack in LA Remenicky’s Beyond Duty. On sale for $.99.
LA, welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! Please tell us about Beyond Duty.
Beyond Duty by LA Remenicky
Genre Contemporary Romance
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): PG
After serving in the Marine Corps, Jessie Monroe has finally found a life beyond war. He’s focused on being an EMT and helping his best friend rescue dogs, until he happens upon a curvy blonde stranded with a flat tire and no jack.
On the run from her past, Dori Graham is slow to trust any man, and she tries to ignore the spark of interest she feels for her handsome savior, but a friendship grows between them.
When Dori’s past invades her new life, Jessie vows to rescue her. Saving her will take him beyond duty and into his own personal hell. Calling upon his training as a Marine and the depth of his feelings for Dori, Jessie will need the mental strength to battle to save her and, ultimately, save himself.
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Do you write more than one genre? If so, what are they?…
Yes, I write Contemporary Romance as LA Remenicky and Paranormal Romance as Ragan Carmichael
How do you come up with ideas?…
Almost anything can spark and idea for a story… song lyrics, miscellaneous dialogue (real or from a movie/TV), or another book.
What is the single most important part of writing for you?…
Sharing the stories in my head.
When did you write your first book?…
8 years ago during NaNoWriMo – I joined on a whim and I actually wrote 50K words. I had no clue what I was doing – sometimes I think I still don’t.
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Leather or lace? Leather
Black or red? Red
Satin sheets or smooth cotton? Smooth cotton
Ocean or mountains? Mountains
City life or country life? Country life
Party life or evening at home? Evening at home
Dogs or cats? Dogs, though I love cats too
Where to buy Beyond Duty
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GLWJPJY/
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LA Remenicky is a wife, mother of two fur kids, and a Best Fiends addict. An avid reader all her life, she finally put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) during NaNoWriMo in 2012 and has never looked back. When she’s not typing away on her latest story with music playing in the background, she can usually be found spending time with her family and friends.
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