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Eye of the Tiger pre-orders

2/4/2016

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Roll of the Dice, Book 3 - Natalie's story is now available for pre-order! 

Order now, and TIGER will leap onto your e-reader on 2/29 (#FunFact: 2-29 is Bachelor Day. This doesn't bode well for Natalie's matchmaking mom!)

Warning: contains several silly, lewd limericks. (Evan is a charming, light-hearted man--or is he?)

I'm excited for y'all to read where Natalie's roll of the dice is taking her, whether she's ready for it or not. 


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A feather in her cap

1/28/2016

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I love fairy tales. Back in college, one of my classes had us write a modern take on a Grimm's fairy tale, and I've been exploring them ever since. But it wasn't until I heard about Decadent Publishing's Beyond Fairytales line that I thought about doing it again, as a romance this time. 

​They gave me Grimm's The Griffin - it's a fun tale with three brothers (including the requisite simpleton youngest), a sick princess, a series of impossible tasks, and a rather grim end for the king who didn't follow through on his initial promises. 

I flipped it around so the female character was the underestimated one who wins against the odds, and set it in the fictional Texas hill country college town of Jackrabbit. I had a great deal of fun playing with the fairy tale tropes, the themes of the story, and giving my prince a happy ending. 

I hope everyone has fun reading it! And visit my Pinterest board for Feather in Her Cap to check out some of the visual inspiration for this story!


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Retreat to Love - Now in Audio!

10/22/2015

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I've mentioned my love of audiobooks (maybe more than once. It's a deep love. A Happily Ever After kind of love.) 

So you can imagine how excited I was to get the notification that RETREAT TO LOVE's audio production - read by the stellar Amy Rubinate - is now available! 

Would you like a FREE COPY? Of course you would! Sign up for my NEWSLETTER below and you'll be automatically entered in a drawing for it.

As usual, Amy did a beautiful job bringing my story to life, and I know you'll enjoy hearing her narrate Ashlyn's journey to the FireWind artists' retreat, and her emotional journey as she confronts a family secret, and finds an unexpected love. 

Check out the sample, then head to Audible or iTunes to put RETREAT TO LOVE in your ears!

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Retreat to Love Pins

4/2/2015

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It's fun to compile Pinterest boards for each of my books, but I had to exercise some SERIOUS self-restraint when picking photos for the RETREAT TO LOVE board. 

I'm so madly in love with quilt art, and would fill the entire board with it, but I am trying to highlight a couple of other things about the book, as well. Also I want to ensure accreditation - everything I've pinned was linked through the International Quilt Association, which brings the Quilt Show to Houston (where I live) every fall, and it's the best time of the year. The work on display there is simply stunning. 

(I personally am not a very deft quilter, much less a fabric artist, so writing Ashlyn was some very serious wish fulfillment on my part!) 
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Introducing RETREAT TO LOVE

3/31/2015

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I've a new novel out today! Are you excited? I am very excited.

RETREAT TO LOVE is a contemporary romance about quilt artist Ashlyn and her world, which opens to include, among others, photographer Caleb Kendall. (He's really cute, y'all.) (But she denies noticing. You have to read it to understand why.)

It's available as an Amazon ebook, and did you notice the gorgeous cover? I'm sure you noticed the gorgeous cover. As with my other ones, it was designed by the clearly talented Kim at The Killion Group.

Thanks for checking it out!
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Listen! Again!

3/3/2015

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Been dying to hear Janice and Miguel's story in audio? You know you have! 

The wait is over - READY TO ROLL is now available in audio from Audible / Amazon / iTunes. And it's sooooo good. As with ROCKET MAN, it is narrated by the stellar Amy Rubinate, Let her sweep you away for a few fun hours as Janice and Miguel's battle of wills escalates. 

It'll knock your socks off.
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READY TO ROLL Pins

9/14/2014

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Ready to Roll is set just about entirely within Miguel's shotgun house in Houston. I love the history of shotgun houses, how well-suited to the (less than hospitable sometimes) climate of the city they are. 

It was a lot of fun to use one as the stage across which Miguel and Janice move during their date. Made me want to move in to a shotgun house of my own! I bet my pets would love racing through from front to back doors, maniac pets that they are. 
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Are you ready for READY TO ROLL?

9/9/2014

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Oh, y'all! My first novella is just about published! I'm pleased as punch (I don't know why punch is so particularly pleased-prone, but who am I to rain on punch's parade?)

You can check out (and pre-order) Ready to Roll via my Books page, but what you really should be doing is just sitting back and admiring the cover. Am I a bad book mama if I think my second cover by the Killion Group is even snazzier than my first? Is it just the lure of the shiny and new? 

Regardless, this cover makes my heart sing, and I hope you find the story lives up to it, when you read the novella (you will read it, right? I mean, not if you're my brothers or my sons, at least not past Chapter 8, but the rest of you? Thanks!)

Happy reading,
Melanie
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Award-Winning Writer ;-)

8/17/2014

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I have such delightful friends! 

There's a group of us who went to middle & high school together & they've been listening to me talk about writing for... let's guess no more than 3 decades? So I'm sure in their eyes the publication of ROCKET MAN has been a really long time coming! 

Anyway, we try to get together monthly, and today was brunch. One friend has created a tradition for us of passing around this superb Milestone Trophy. It reads:

SHAMROCK HILTON
CHRISTMAS DANCE
CONTEST
1957
1ST.


And today, in recognition of the milestone of my debut publication, it was awarded to me! 

Obviously, I've got it sitting proudly on top of the roll top desk in my study, where it shines on me as I sit to write. 

It's particularly apt, as I'm currently finishing up READY TO ROLL, which is the novella featuring Janice and Miguel from ROCKET MAN. Why is a dance trophy particularly apt for that novella, you ask? Well, you'll just have to wait slightly less than a month, then you'll find out. 

(Is it unfriendly of me to hope none of my friends have milestones soon, so I get to keep it a while?) (Is it really really unfriendly of me to hope that, considering one of them is planning her wedding?) (...it's okay. I know the answer.)

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About ROCKET MAN: Word Lists

7/16/2014

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I've been talking incessantly about my debut, ROCKET MAN (in stores now!), so I've been looking for new ways to convey what the reading experience will be. 

Today I'll let you experience it via word frequency. My writing program (Scrivener, which is pretty darn cool, y'all) has a 'word frequency' function designed, probably, to alert me when I overuse conjunctions and so forth. I've used it to create lists that will give you a little taste of ROCKET MAN. 12 is my favorite number, so here (in the order that Scrivener generated them) are 3 lists of 12 words used often, sometimes, and occasionally:

12 words I use about 120 times in ROCKET MAN:
  1. Herself
  2. Enough
  3. Room
  4. Oh
  5. Why
  6. That's
  7. Hand
  8. Around
  9. Put
  10. While
  11. Make
  12. Door

12 words I use about 60 times in ROCKET MAN:
  1. Night
  2. Blue
  3. Another
  4. Yes
  5. Coffee
  6. Funny
  7. Hey
  8. Shoulder
  9. Plan
  10. Kiss
  11. Finally
  12. Breath

12 words I use exactly 12 times in ROCKET MAN:
  1. Refused
  2. Freaking
  3. Forever
  4. Touching
  5. Bite
  6. Eventually
  7. Paused
  8. Mint
  9. Wet
  10. Erection
  11. Tension
  12. Lists

So, if you haven't read it, can you guess what my book's about? If you have, do you think these lists capture the flavor? Let me know in the comments!
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