DAILY DEALS: Blind dates, bad neighbors, and big bites
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Lessons In Love by Sheena Binkley $ 2.99
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Trina Dotson is a young woman whose career is on the rise, but her love life is a mess. After finding out her boyfriend is engaged to another woman, she tries to do everything in her power to get over him, including going on blind dates, speed dating, even making a profile on an online dating site. Although she’s trying her best to overcome a broken heart, none of those options have worked.
If her love life isn’t complicated enough, she also has to deal with Nick, her new neighbor, who moves in next door to her. With his music constantly blaring and other activities bothering her, Trina has to wonder how much longer she can deal with him before she tells him off, or go to jail for hurting him.
With the help of her best friends Trent and Ashley, Trina soon realizes that she doesn’t have to look for love; she should let love come to her.
The Emotional Craft of Fiction by Donald Maass $ 1.2
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Engage Your Readers with Emotion
While writers might disagree over showing versus telling or plotting versus pantsing, none would argue this: If you want to write strong fiction, you must make your readers feel. The reader’s experience must be an emotional journey of its own, one as involving as your characters’ struggles, discoveries, and triumphs are for you.
That’s where The Emotional Craft of Fiction comes in. Veteran literary agent and expert fiction instructor Donald Maass shows you how to use story to provoke a visceral and emotional experience in readers. Topics covered include:
emotional modes of writing
beyond showing versus telling
your story’s emotional world
moral stakes
connecting the inner and outer journeys
plot as emotional opportunities
invoking higher emotions, symbols, and emotional language
cascading change
story as emotional mirror
positive spirit and magnanimous writing
the hidden current that makes stories move
Readers can simply read a novel…or they can experience it. The Emotional Craft of Fiction shows you how to make that happen.
Immortal: Love Stories with Bite by Rachel Vincent $ 1.99
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Vampire stories from New York Times-bestselling and award-winning authors!
In Immortal: Love Stories with Bite, edited by New York Times-bestselling author of the House of Night series P. C. Cast, an all-star lineup of today’s most popular authors offer new short stories that prove when you’re immortal, true love really is forever.
Rachel Caine revisits the setting of her popular Morganville Vampires series, where the vampires are in charge and love is a risky endeavor, even when it comes to your own family.
Cynthia Leitich Smith, author of Tantalize, gives us a love triangle between a vampire, a ghost and a human girl, in which none are who, or what, they seem.
Claudia Gray takes us into the world of her Evernight series, in which a pre-Civil War courtesan-to-be is courted by a pale, fair-haired man whose attentions are too dangerous to spurn, in more ways than one.
Richelle Mead, author of the Vampire Academy series, brings us the tale of a young vampire on the run from the rest of her kind, and the human boy who provides the getaway car — as well as a reason to keep running.
Nancy Holder, known for the Wicked series and her Buffy the Vampire Slayer novels, immerses us in a post-apocalyptic New York where two best friends are forced to make a choice that may kill them both.
Kristin Cast, coauthor of the House of Night series, introduces us to a new kind of vampire: one with roots in Greek mythology, and the power to alter space and time to save the girl he’s meant to love.
Rachel Vincent explores a new corner of her Soul Screamers series with the story of a leannán sídhe capable of inspiring the musician she loves to new creative heights, or draining him, and his talent, dry.
And Tanith Lee, author of Black Unicorn, shows us what happens when a bright young woman with some supernatural savvy encounters a misguided (but gorgeous) young vampire…
At Peace by Kristen Ashley $ B003XNTTIA
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Violet Winters once had it all but lost it when her husband was murdered by a criminal madman. During a cold winter night Violet has to leave her warm bed to tell her neighbor to turn the music down. And that’s when she meets sinister, scarred, scarily attractive security specialist, Joe Callahan.
She wants to deny it, but Violet can’t beat back the hunger she feels for Joe so she gives in again and again. Feeling it himself, Joe feeds Vi’s hunger, breaking his own rules to keep her in his bed.
Even though Violet had only one man in her life, she’s sure Joe is giving her the signals and Vi decides she’s ready to take a second chance at life and, maybe, love. But Violet doesn’t know the dark secrets in Joe’s past, secrets so soul-wrenching, they’ve drained him dry. With nothing left to give, Joe’s determined to live his life alone and he breaks Violet’s heart.
Crushed by Joe’s betrayal, Violet comes to terms with the fact that, no matter what signals he gave, Joe was not theirs to win. But Violet’s husband’s murderer is obsessed with her and heartbreak again haunts the door of the Winters home. When it does Joe is forced to face the knowledge that he can’t fight Violet’s pull, she’s under his skin and filled him full to bursting.
Joe needs to win her back and put his life on the line to keep Violet safe. But, having had it all once, can Violet endure losing Joe?
What is a KA book?
@LML: Kristen Ashley.
LML: KA is Kristen Ashley.
Oh, my. I must have been really tired. I even checked Urban Dictionary…