• RLF Gems

    Marilyn Baron: A Gem of a Blogger @MarilynBaron #RLFblog

    In preparation for the move from Blogspot to WordPress, I’m sharing the RLF Gem Bloggers of this site. Each Saturday for the next few weeks, I’ll showcase a different author.

    2014 Star Blogger: Marilyn Baron

    Marilyn has appeared on the Romance Lives Forever blog seven times. She has been an RLF Gem multiple times and was on the list of Bloggers of the Year in 2014. The position is chosen by the amount of visits the author’s post receives.
    I’m proud to present Marilyn with the 2014 RLF Gem Award.
    Others who won monthly top blogger awards in 2014 were Daisy Banks, Vicki Batman, E Ayers, and JD Faver.

    About Marilyn Baron

    Marilyn Baron is a public relations consultant in Atlanta. She’s a member of Marketing for Romance Writers, Romance Writers of America and
    Georgia Romance Writers (GRW) and the recipient of the GRW 2009 Chapter Service Award. She writes humorous women’s fiction, romantic thrillers/suspense, historicals and paranormal. She has won writing awards in Single Title, Suspense Romance and Paranormal/Fantasy Romance.
    Website www.marilynbaron.com
    Blog www.petitfoursandhottamales.com
    Twitter https://twitter.com/MarilynBaron
    Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/Marilyn-Baron/286807714666748?fref=ts
    Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4722647.Marilyn_Baron
    Amazon Author Page http://www.amazon.com/Marilyn-Baron/e/B008PJFQPC/

    Marilyn Baron’s Latest Book

    Marilyn’s 20th work of fiction, The Vampire Next Door, a paranormal romance, is now available for pre-order. The worldwide release date for the novel is June 9, 2017. Aurora Dawn Hale, the ravishing daughter and granddaughter of psychics, wants to take a bite out of the boy next door, reformed vampire Lancelot “Lance” Lakeland, who repents his past and desperately desires to be good. Lance has given up immortality to be with the woman he craves. He must convince Aurora Dawn he is worthy of her trust. Will she love him for who he is and leave her fiancé at the altar? Or wake up from her spell in time to recognize the evil presence of the fiend who has terrorized her family for centuries?

    Preorder The Vampire Next Door https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071CSXPXM/

    Coming next Saturday…Top Blogger for 2015. Come back and see who it is! Visit the new blog – still under construction: RLFblog. Since the hashtag is #RLFblog, that’s the url for the new site. It will keep the name Romance Lives Forever.

    Kayelle Allen

  • Contemporary

    RLF Gem Award: Top Bloggers July 2014 Romance Lives Forever #RLFblog @ayersbooks

    RLF Gem Award 

    Last month, Romance Lives Forever had 31 posts in a 31 day month.

    The Top Blogger was author E Ayers.
    Amazon Author Page http://amzn.com/e/B005AYJ0XE
    Authors of Main Street Newsletter http://ow.ly/xel3e

    Top Five Bloggers for the Month

    (judged by page views). Congratulations to each person!

    1. E Ayers
    2. Adrienne
      deWolfe
    3. Lisabet
      Sarai
    4. Daisy Banks
    5. Loc Glin
    Honorable mention: Jocie McKade, Jana
    Richards
    Romance Lives Forever features authors and new books. It has a blogger’s
    FAQ page with a downloadable guide and optional interviews. Readers can follow via Google+, Networked Blogs, Linky Followers, email, an RSS
    feed, and there’s a blog button readers and authors can grab. RLF takes up to three
    images per article, so authors can share previous books. The blog uses author or
    publisher names as SEO tags on posts, and author Twitter handles in the titles.
    The site is broadcast over Triberr with a potential reach of over a million readers
    via its Twitter-linked network. Twitter mentions are also gathered in several Paper.li
    ezines, giving the author additional opportunities for promotion. The Romance Lives Forever
    Paper.li ezine
    features guest authors on its front page every day.

    Share your book cover on Romance Lives Forever

    Limited spots to share book covers are available. Cost is $3
    per month, with discounts for covers posted for one quarter and up to one year.
    Covers can be changed monthly.

    Sign Up for a Future Post

    Guest calendar http://is.gd/rlfdates

    My thanks to all who took part this month. You made Romance Lives
    Forever a great place to discover new books and authors.

    Other participants this month in alphabetical order by first
    name are:
    Anita Cox, Brenda
    Corey Dunne, DP Denman, Em Petrova, H Lewis-Foster, Houston Havens, Jami Gray, Jennifer
    Lynne, JoAnne Myers, Juli D Revezzo, Kris Bock, Lauren Linwood, Louisa Bacio, Lucy
    Felthouse, Renee Dunne, Sabrina York, TD Hassett, Tina Gayle, Veronica Bale, Wendy
    Lynn Clark
  • Contemporary

    Writing “Campaign” the novel by E Ayers @ayersbooks #RLFblog #contemporary

    Campaign
    Thanks so much for having me here
    today. My newest book Campaign will be live Monday, July 21, 2014. It’s my seventh
    River City novel. River City is a fictional mid-sized city in the eastern United States.
    I love writing the River City
    novels because they aren’t exactly a series, although it’s fun to read them in order,
    just jump in and try one. The glue that holds them together is the city. Yes, many
    of the characters know each other. Some work together, are friends, or are business
    associates. So there can be some loose ties between them.
    In my head, I have some criteria for
    River City novels. The couple has to be doing something
    to make the city better. It doesn’t matter if they donate to a cause, or actively
    participate in some sort of activity/volunteer program, such as coaching soccer.
    Plus there has to be something about that story that needs to be told. Something
    different that sets it apart.
    I’m going to say that all the stories
    are PG-13. Let’s face it, teens today know more about sex than their grandmothers
    did after they were married! That might sound horrifying to some people, but I don’t
    think it is. Knowledge is power. It’s also protection!
    So that said, I’m PG-13. I don’t write
    anything too sweet or too hot. I’m right down the middle. I let my characters and
    their personalities drive the heat of the story.
    Writing Campaign was a roller coaster
    ride. It’s an emotional story, filled with highs and lows. And just when I thought
    I had a grip on it, my heroine, Kathryn “Ryn” Demary would toss another
    problem at me, because she wasn’t the average heroine. And Brad Shoemaker might
    have fallen in love with her, but he had a career choice at stake.
    So while the story seems simple enough,
    Ryn wasn’t. She’s mute and that is a huge factor throughout the story. Yes, there’s
    dialog. She talks with her hands, she uses a computer gadget, and occasionally pen
    and paper. That alone created a grammar nightmare. So after spending some time at
    one of the local colleges discussing the situation with the grammar gurus, it was
    concluded that she signed or she typed was to be treated exactly the same as she
    said.
    The other problem with signing is
    that folks who sign don’t exactly use each word and there is no past or future tense.
    They sign you go store eggs milk bread I cook food we food. That could mean you
    went to the store so I cooked the dinner – let’s eat! Because Ryn can hear, and
    once upon a time, had a voice, she might sign in the abbreviated form, but in her
    head, she’s saying the whole sentence. I used the whole sentence.
    The truth is people don’t know what
    to do when faced with someone who is disabled. Fear that they can’t communicate,
    or that they will do, or say, the wrong thing keeps people at a distance. And that
    can be heart breaking for the person with a disability.
    I hope when people are done reading
    Campaign, they will understand a little more about disabilities, and they will see
    Ryn as a young woman who is surviving in a vocal world. She loves Brad and wants
    to be his wife, but she wants to be more than a silent smile at his side.
    Campaign Brad and Ryn’s Story A River City
    Novel
    Contemporary Romance
    Brad Shoemaker was blindsided when he discovered that love could
    be silent, and Kathryn “Ryn” Demary is mute. But when Mayor Bruno Giovanni
    is forced into early retirement, he chooses Brad to run in his place. Ryn is determined
    to campaign at Brad’s side, but instead of being an asset, she just might be his
    biggest liability. Ryn finds herself campaigning not just for Brad to become mayor
    but also for his love. Politics can get dirty and Ryn’s caught in the middle.

    Buy This Book

    Available soon: Check author’s website for buy links  http://ayersbooks.wordpress.com

    Author Bio

    E. Ayers is a multi-published and Amazon best-selling author
    of western and contemporary romances. Her books are never too sweet or too hot.
    She writes down the middle. She is proud to be part of the Authors of Main Street,
    an elite group of award-winning and best-selling contemporary authors.

    Giveaway

    Anyone who signs up for the Authors of Main Street Newsletter
    today or tomorrow will be eligible to win an autographed copy of Campaign in their
    choice of Kindle or PDF format. Our newsletter goes out once a month and represents
    all the authors on Main Street.

    Author Social Media

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  • Contemporary

    Contemporary: River City Series @ayersbooks #RLFblog

    Wanting 

    Thanks, Kayelle, for inviting me to be on your blog. I love
    visiting with new readers. For those of you who don’t know me, I write River City
    novels. They aren’t exactly a series, more like a collection. A series is
    supposed to be read in order, but the glue to my stories is the city itself so
    they stand alone. They are about young urbanites who live, work, and play in River City.
    Each one is trying to make the city a little better by volunteering or doing
    other things within the community.

    I love writing these stories. Every one is unique. And if
    you put everyone into a room, you’ll find a few are tight friends and some
    barely know each other. It’s not unisual for old friends to show up in other
    stories. And if you do read them in order, it’s fun. Spoiler: No, Dallas is not pregnant,
    yet.
    When I started writing romance novels I started with Mac and
    Amanda. That book became Wanting. Amanda had been sexually abused as a
    child. She’s repressed the painful memories and built a barrier to protect
    herself from ever being hurt again. Mac might want her, but it’s going to take
    every bit of his strength to win her over while handling the demons of her past
    as they surface.
    The second River City novel A New Beginning is Rick and Dallas’ story. At eighteen
    Dallas finds
    herself kicked out of her home. With no place to go she turns to the one person
    that she knows who will take her in. Eleven years between them, suddenly Rick
    is coping with a brilliant but funky teen. She destroys his budget and his
    sterling reputation. He gives her the opportunity to grow up while fostering
    her artistic ability. But when Rick is charged with what amounts to kidnapping
    charges, there’s more at stake than his reputation.
    A Challenge is the third River City
    novel. It’s Ari and Tate’s story. Tate is an athlete and she falls hard for the
    handsome Ari. She accepts a job in River
    City to be near Ari, but
    the job doesn’t go exactly as planned. When she discovers she’s pregnant, she’s
    got bigger problems.
    The fourth River
    City is Forever.
    Letitzia has been burned by so many men that she doesn’t want to become
    involved with another man. But Jeffery Lister, MD has fallen in love with her.
    She builds skyscrapers. He delivers babies. He’s always assumed that one day
    he’d settle down and have a family, but he doesn’t have time for them. Can two
    people with very busy jobs ever have time for more than a casual relationship?
    Gerald and Katie’s story is A Son. Certain that the
    child is not his, Katie’s boyfriend kicks her out when she announces that she’s
    pregnant. Katie’s dreams of a happily-ever-after have been destroyed.
    Overweight and pregnant, she only wants to be healthy for the sake of her baby.
    Gerald offers to be her gym partner, but he’s fallen in love with her. She
    doesn’t want him tangled in her web. She’d determined to raise her child on her
    own and protect her son from the prejudice that still exists towards mixed-race
    children.
    Coming later this month is the sixth River City
    novel, A Child’s Heart. At eighteen, Trent graduated from high school, married,
    and took a job to support his pregnant wife. But when his wife went into labor,
    he suddenly became a widower with a newborn. The baby has the same heart defect
    as his mother and needs surgery. Four years later, little Shawn is scheduled
    for a delicate, experimental heart surgery. Trent’s
    mom has made sure her son has been a good father, but when Cassie walks into Trent’s life, everything
    changes. Cassie is older, has her PhD, and is the city’s museum curator. To
    her, nothing is impossible. She’s fallen in love with little Shawn and his
    daddy.
    I love writing these romances because they are romances, but
    they are more slice of life stories. That means I include the life along with
    the romance. It’s more realistic. We all know how hectic life can get and that
    impacts the love-life. But our daily lives is a major part of who we are. Strip
    that away and it’s just another romance.
    My River
    City novels do have a bit
    of heat to them. That heat level fluctuates by the characters. Some couples are
    more open and others are very restrained. In today’s world, most people are not
    jumping in bed on the first date or even the third. They let those feeling
    build as they get to know one another. I’m never erotic, but I don’t shut the
    bedroom door. Sex is a normal part of a loving relationship.
    Here’s a little sneak preview of A Child’s Heart. That first
    kiss is always special and Cassie wasn’t prepared for this one. Her intent was
    to give Shawn a few books.

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