Monday, September 28, 2015

Pandora's Picks for October: LeTeisha Newton, Heather Killough Walden, Kym Grosso, and Crymsyn Heart

Reading is one of the great pleasures of my life, I go now where without something to read. After deciding to do book reviews, articles and interviews. I realize that I read more books than I could ever write individual articles about.The solution you ask? I'm going to drop suggestions from books that I've been reading into my picks for the month. Well give it a go and see how it works!. So here goes, these are my pics for the moth of October.

Kym Grosso - Immortals of New Orleans 
   If I had the space I would list every single one of the books in this series, but as it stands I'm only going to list two, Leopold's Wicked Embrace, and Dimitri. 

"Seductive and lethal vampire, Léopold Devereoux, returns to the Big Easy to find a killer. His search leads him to a beautiful and mysterious woman, who awakens desires and emotions that he’s long fought to keep buried. After centuries of self-imposed solitude, the billionaire philanthropist struggles to restrain his growing thirst for the intriguing, lovely female who’s captured his attention.
Laryssa Theriot, an antiques proprietor in the Vieux Carré, agrees to help the commanding yet debonair stranger, who seeks her assistance. She withholds her secret abilities, afraid to trust the man who threatens to unleash her darkest fantasies. All the while, Léopold consumes her thoughts, testing her erotic limits and bringing her to new levels of ecstasy. As the menacing force that has stalked Laryssa for years finally catches up to her, she submits, putting her life into the hands of the dominant vampire who offers his protection.
Deep in the heart of New Orleans, they embark on a perilous adventure, forced to search for an ancient sacrificial relic that they hope will save their lives. As they face formidable challenges, Léopold and Laryssa surrender to the passionate intimacy that possesses them. After hundreds of years of denying himself love, will Léopold bond to the woman who has begun to crack the impenetrable shell around his heart? As evil draws near, will Laryssa survive the demon that has come to take her soul?"
Warning: This book contains several erotic love scenes and is intended for adult readers only.

Monday, September 7, 2015

(Interview) Seressia Glass - Sweeping Us Off Our Feet One Romance At A Time



"Reading is fundamental." We all heard it when we were young. For me reading has been more than fundamental. It's a way of life. I'm most comfortable when I have a book to read, and when I finish that one, it's almost a compulsion to look for another one.  I was smack in the middle of  not so great place in my life and at times I needed to be able to take a break from reality. Books, stories were right there the way they had always  been. At this point I had barely begun to scratch the surface of paranormal romance. I started reading Sherrilyn Keynon and JR Ward, both authors par excellence, but I needed more, I needed to be able to see myself represented in what I was reading. I found just that in Seressia Glass' Shadowchaser series. For the first time I was reading a paranormal romance where the heroine was not only smart, strong, and sexy as all get out, but she was also a Sister. But that wasn't all that made me fall headlong into Seressia's writing. It's the fact that the series is a modern story, but it's beautifully and thoroughly interwoven with rich African and Egyptian culture. 

From Shadowchaser I went to The Sons of Anubis series, which is written as thoroughly beautiful as Shadowchaser, but full of scorching love scenes. I haven't yet started on the Sugar and Spice series, but it's next on TBR list. I can't begin to tell you how honored I am to have afforded the opportunity to spend some time with Seressia and to share that with all of you. So with out further ado, Seressia Glass.

Saturday, September 5, 2015

Romance Debutante DJ Parker Breaking Out With Sinn (Interview)


If there is one thing that I've learned from reading countless romance novels is that there are hundreds if not thousands of published authors out there, and honestly I don't know exactly how they managed to get published. But if you look them up they have quite a few works under their belts. After reading DJ Parker's "Dipping Into Sinn, I knew she wasn't one of those authors, but I would never have guessed that this book was her debut project. No sooner than I finished with book one I was chaffing at the bit to dive head first into book 2 Dipping Deeper Into Sinn, which had just come out. Read my review here - Who Knew That Sinn Could Be This Good! D.J. Parker Dipping Into Sinn 2 (Dipping Deeper Into Sinn)

From the cover to the last page, these are two books that you seriously need to have on your "To Be Read" List. As a matter of fact, I'll wager that everything that DJ Parker writes will end up on that list. But you didn't start reading this to listen to me wax poetic. So without further ado, let's hear from DJ Parker, debut author from Jessica Watkins Presents.

PE - Dipping Into Sin is was your debut novel. Talk to us about your journey to romance writing?

DJ - My journey into writing came from reading. Ever since I was in elementary school, I’ve always had a fascination with story telling. At first, I would recite my stories to my mother, get her opinion, and then write it down. Unlike most other writers, I never participated in any contests—mainly because I was always shy and self-conscious. Even in writing Dipping Into Sin, I wrestled with the idea of sending my manuscript to Jessica Watkins Presents.
When I entered high school, I decided to be apart of the newspaper committee. For fours years, I did not do any other form of creative writing that was outside of my English assignments. I lived, ate, and breathed my high school newspaper. I became the International News Editor and my primary focus was writing about public policy and politics on all of the countries outside of the United States. Even my choice of books changed while I was in high school.
By my senior year of high school, I had decided that I wanted to pursue journalism. Upon entering college, I started to become less interested in writing about international news and more focused on trying to define myself outside of my high school newspaper. For two years, I only wrote when it involved school assignments.
As I approached my senior year in college, I won a Kindle from a raffle. Instead of storing the Kindle in my desk drawer, I decided to research how to use a Kindle. The first book that I purchased was from the author, Brenda Jackson. Realizing how convenient and accessible my Kindle was, I decided to purchase more books. In less than a month of having my Kindle, I had purchased over twenty novels and managed to read every last one. I fell in love with story telling all over again. I forgot how truly amazing it is to have the ability to paint a story together and create a masterpiece. After reading my first interracial novel by Theodora Taylor, I decided to try my hand at writing again. At first, it was difficult trying to outline, format, and place all of my ideas into one story. I suffered a dry spell in which I did not know how to be my own writer. This stemmed from the years that I spent only tailoring my writing to fit that of a newspaper and college assignments. So, I put my story away and decided to spend the next year free writing and being creative.