What I've read this week. 12-5-14

Slow start for me, but soon I was hooked. I love the world Brett creates. His characters aren't stilted, and even though the do things I wish they wouldn't, thinks happen to them that I found unfair, I have to remind myself that the real world isn't buttoned up and beautiful. I love that the demon's have personalities.

I highly recommend this to anyone who loves AU/dystopias with lots of battle scenes between humans and demons. :)

I loved this story. Reading it took me back to my childhood. This book has a little bit of everything: fairies, magic, witches, dragons.

The story is about two girls who go on an adventure to find the fairy queen's infant son. Along the way, the girls find themselves camping in the woods, flying through the air on dragonflies, and battling goblins. Do not fear, this novel is very small child friendly.

I highly recommend it children of all ages.

Started Sunday 11-30-14. finished Monday 12-1-14. I enjoyed this story. I thought it should have been a little better thought out, but it was a decent read. If the characters in the novel were the professionals they are supposed to have been, some of the things should have been prevented, but where would the drama be if they had been.

Started Monday 12-1-14. Finished Wednesday 12-3-14. This was a pretty good book. The post-apocalyptic world created here gives one hope for our society in the aftermath of such devastation.

Started Wednesday 12-3-14. This was an all right read, but it was more of a fictitious telling of the history of zombie outbreaks than an actual survival guide.

I finally finished this novel. Loved the story. Hated the slang. It made the story hard to read.

I just started this tonight. I'm really enjoying the vampire/zombie story.

WIP IT UP Wednesday - 12-3-14 - Exceprt from Resistant

I’m back. Sorry that I missed last week, but things were just so hectic. This week my WIP post is from my upcoming romance novel, Resistant, set in the middle of the zombie apocalypse. This excerpt comes from chapter 4, and the very next morning after she and Daniel meet. 

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A loud commanding voice woke me at sunrise a few hours later. A pounding on my bedroom door followed the voice seconds later. “Son-of-a…” I mumbled, jumping at the noise. I rose, looked out my bedroom window, and saw the soft light of the sun slowly breaking through the curtains. “Really.” I plopped back on the pillow, pulled the cover over my head, and started to doze back off. I wasn’t part of their military, and I didn’t want them there. If they insisted on being there, they could take care of themselves.

Seconds later, another pounding came at the door. I threw the blankets off me, rolled out of bed, stomped to the door, and jerked it open. “What?” I demanded.

Daniel stood outside my door, mouth open in a silent remark. I looked down at myself and realized that for the second time in two days, I stood in front this man in almost nothing. This time was worse because now all I wore were a pair of panties and a long shirt.

For a second, I wanted to be embarrassed, but then I decided that by the look on his face and his cautious look up and down the hall for others, my appearance offended him. Good. He deserved to be offended. This was my house. I would wear what I wanted in my own damned bedroom.

“You should probably…” he started to say.

“I should probably what? Get dressed? Why should I. This is my house. If you don’t want to see my fat ass half-naked, you should have picked somewhere else to stay.” I propped my hands on my hips, causing my shift to lift even further.

His eyes widened, then he looked away. Yep, get a good disgusting look at the fat girl’s thighs. Maybe you’ll think twice about banging on my door, I thought and grinned smugly at him

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Okay, for those of you who want to know more about HIM, here is the next hundred words or so of HIM.

“Don’t be so dramatic,” my mother replied in a caustic voice, thankfully, oddly enough, interrupting my train of thought. That was just like my mother. She would have her say, no matter how I tried to avoid her retorts. I shouldn’t have said anything, but sometimes things come out without my control.

“I’m not being dramatic, Mother,” I spat in a low voice. We were more than a mile from the mainland, with another mile or so to go before we reached my grandparent’s resort.

“Don’t start this again,” Mom warned me. “You leave your uncle alone.”

Oh, I planned to stay as far away from that man as humanly possible. The problem was that he never left me alone. He seemed determined to find me wherever I hid.

--HIM has a tentative release date of January 2015.

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Snippet Sunday and #8sunday - 11-30-14 from SHIFTER (RO/PA)

    Thank you, everyone, for stopping by my twelfth Weekend Writing Warriors’ #8Sunday and my fourth Snippet Sunday post.

     Today’s excerpt comes from chapter twelve of my supernatural romance, Shifter. In this scene, Abby and Devan have returned from their date, and Dimitri is listening to the conversation they are having on Abby’s front porch. (I have slightly altered this scene to meet the guidelines of this blog hop.)

 “I’m going to invite you in, but you should know before you enter that we won’t be having sex.”

“We’ll see.”

“No, seriously, no sex.”

“I won’t say I’m not disappointed, but if you say no sex, then I won’t do anything more than this.”

I can’t stop myself. When I hear her intake of breath, I pull a Sebastian and begin scratching at the door to distract them. At the noise, I hear a growl escape Devan’s lips and a soft chuckle come from Abby. With a satisfied meow, I step away from the door.

 Want to know if their date ends here? Download your copy of Shifter today at Amazon, Smashwords, Barnes and Noble, or Google Play. To find out more about this novel or me, peruse this cite or visit me on Facebook, Goodreads, Pinterest, and Twitter.

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WIP Update 11-28-14

Saturday 11-22-14

Shut up. I'm not bawling over the chapter I just finished. (I say, blowing my nose and cleaning my face.) That was the hardest ending I've ever had to write, since the airplane scene in ALONE. Well, I say ending, but I've decided that the novel needs an epilogue, so once that is done, the first draft will be finished. Here is a small snippet of the scene that made me burst into tears. Yeah, I'm giving a little away here, but this novel probably won't be out until next fall, so by then, most of you will have forgotten all about it...right.
“No buts. Tell him you love and tell him goodbye,” Ian ordered.
“Michael, I…”
“I know, baby, I know. I love you, too. I have to go, now."

Oh, I forgot to tell you. I'm thinking of titling this one SAYING GOODBYE. What do those of you who have been following this one think about this title?

Well, that is all of the writing I did this week. I hope everyone has a great holiday weekend. I'm off to do shopping with my mom.

Before I forget, between now and December 26th, you can downloader SHIFTER and ALONE for half of their original price.

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What I've read this week. 11-28-14

I started the second book in this series this week. I like the series. It isn't as great as the Anne Bishop series I just finished, but it isn't bad for a young adult supernatural series.https://www.goodreads.com/.../12507214-girl-of-nightmares

Anyone out there like young adult time traveling books? If so, you have to check out OMG by Bob Kat. The title is a bit juvenile, and I almost blew the series off because of it, but I ended up really enjoying this young adult novel. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17567525-omg-oh-my-god…

I started reading Darkest Mind on Monday. It is all right. Nothing to rush out and get, but a good read if you see it lying about. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10576365-the-darkest-minds?ac=1

I decided I wanted to go a little old school this morning and reread a little something from my childhood. Love Judy Blume. :) :)

After finishing Freckle Juice, I started The Warded Man by Peter Brett. This novel started slow for me, but it has grown on me. Not the fastest most entertaining thing I've ever read, but a good read so far.

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Meet My Character Monday Blog Tour #MMCMBH: Meet the Avery from HIM

Good Monday morning folks. Welcome back to the Meet My Character Monday Blog Hop. Today I want to introduce you to Avery, another character from my upcoming suspense/thriller HIM. Avery is one of the main characters in HIM. He is sixteen years old and is Amy’s little brother.

Avery is your typical teenage boy, playing sports, hanging with his friends, and grossing out his sister. In the very first scene in the novel, we see him acting out and trying to aggravate his mother, sister, and cousin.

“I can swim this,” Avery, my little brother, said in a defiant tone to our cousin Jake. The two boys were leaning against the railing of the ferry, pretending to calculate the distance between Little Paw, our grandfather’s island, which lay in front of us, and Yellow Head, a town on the mainland of South Carolina’s southern coast just north of Tybee National Wildlife Refuge, which lay behind us.

“No, you couldn’t,” Jake countered. “It’s nearly two miles from dock to dock. You’d never make it.”

“I bet I could. You couldn’t though,” Avery bated him, then hawked up a wad of spit and let it slowly drip from his mouth to the water.

The most important thing to know about Avery is that when push comes to shove, he has his sister’s back. The following scene shows that he willingly puts himself between Amy and her abuser, and takes Amy’s side over his mother’s, the person who should believe Amy, but doesn’t.

I moved my chair out a little more. As I started to rise, my brother stood up in front of me. Even though Avery was two years younger than I was, he was taller and bigger. He moved in front of me, blocking me from his view if he happened to look our way.

“Avery?” Mom asked, watching him. His protective action baffled her.

“We’re leaving, mother,” he said through gritted teeth.

By protecting his sister though, he does put himself in harm’s way a number of times. At the end of the novel, he takes a few blows to the head while trying to keep his uncle away from his sister.

I heard Avery call Shane’s name, then mine, then I jerked my head in his direction in time to see my little brother hit the ground. Shocked, I lunged for my brother, turned him around, and saw a massive gash leaking blood across his forehead.

“He’ll live,” he said from behind me where Shane lay. I turned to see him kneeling over Shane, gun pointed at his head. “Get up, and go inside.”

To find out more about what happens to Amy and Shane, check out the novel’s Facebook page or read the first chapter on Goodreads. This novel has a tentative release date of January 2015.

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Snippet Sunday and #8sunday - 11-23-14 from SHIFTER (RO/PA)

Thank you, everyone, for stopping by my eleventh Weekend Writing Warriors’ #8Sunday and my third Snippet Sunday post.

     Today’s excerpt comes from chapter eleven of my supernatural romance, Shifter. In this scene, Abby is getting ready for her date with Dimitri, and her friends and sister have taken it upon themselves to help get her ready. ;)

 I know I’m acting a bit too hesitant about doing all of this, considering it is just one date with a man I know is only being kind to me. I do want to be beautiful for him, but if I had a choice, I wouldn’t have gone this far with the makeover. My sister and friends are more excited about the date than I am.

“Why are you being so reluctant?” my sister demands as she tries to convince me to wear a thong under my dress.

“I’m not being reluctant. I have done everything you people have wanted me to do all day. I’m not wearing the thong because I don’t plan on sleeping with him.”

“Oh, why not?” Carrie asks.

 Want to know is she ends up wearing the thong and/or sleeping with Dimitri? Download your copy of Shifter today at Amazon, Smashwords, Barnes and Noble, or Google Play. To find out more about this novel or me, peruse this cite or visit me on Facebook, Goodreads, Pinterest, and Twitter.

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WIP Update 11-21-14

Saturday 11-15-14 Ghost story: Chapter 28 is finished. I'm having a pretty productive week. Go me. Here is a peak at worked I worked on today: Her head was titled slightly to look up at him, and he wanted nothing more than to kiss her, and he thought he saw a look in her eyes that said she wanted the same thing.

Monday 11-17-14 Ghost story: Worked on chapter 29 a bit, and decided on an ending. Not bad for the day. While Kathryn has HIM and, I'm finishing up the ghost story, I'm also going to start another read-through of Resistant, my zombie piece, so be looking for some excerpts from it over the next few weeks. Okay, so here is a sample of what I worked on today:
"I really will be leaving for good soon. I’m going to let my soul be reborn. So I came to say my goodbyes.”

Thursday 11-20-14 Ghost story: Chapter 29 of the ghost story is done. Chapter 30 started. Almost finished with the first draft. YAY!!! Here is a peak at what I worked on today:
"Michael still lingered in their minds, and he always would. Unbeknownst to them, he was still lingering in the human world watching them, wanting to ensure that they found the happiness they deserved."

Friday 11-21-14 Ghost story: All I need is one more good writing day and I will finish the first draft of the ghost story. The last chapter is almost done. YAY!!! Here is a sneak peak at what I've worked on today:
She and Ian walked back to the cemetery. The short stroll made them both a little nervous, but neither said anything as they passed Michael’s head stone and headed toward the creek and the old tree behind which Michael usually waited.

I'm going to start editing Resistant, my Zombie piece next week, so get ready for some excerpts from that piece. :)

What I've Read this week.

I started A Clockwork Orange, but I'm having issues with all of the slang. I read a chapter or two, but had to put it down. I'll try to pick it up later. (If you want a rating. So far, I'm only giving this three stars.)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/227463.A_Clockwork_Orange?ac=1

I'm so glad, I put aside A Clockwork Orange, because Written In Red and its sequel, Murder of Grows is amazing. I'm definitely going to be a bit obsessive with this one. I don't know if I can wait until April 2015 for the next book. :) (Both books get 5 Stars.)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15711341-written-in-red

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17563080-murder-of-crows

I really didn't want to move on after the last series, but alas I didn't have a choice. This next series seems interesting. I just started Anna Dressed Red it today, so we will see.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9378297-anna-dressed-in-blood

WIP IT UP WEDNESDAY - Excerpt from chapter 3 of Resistant

Okay, I’m new to the publishing world, having only released my first novel this past February and am even newer to the blogging world. I found this blog through another blog that I’m following. I know the author I am following is predominately a romance writer, but I didn’t do enough research on this page to know that it was romance novels only. I caught on quickly and went groveling to Ms. Melody, begging for forgiveness.

And here is my formal apology to you guys. I’m so sorry for last week. Whereas, HIM can be a bit graphic, it isn’t a romance novel. It is a suspense thriller, centered around a young girl who has spent her entire life being physically and sexually abused by her uncle. The main character is telling the story to her therapist a year after her abuser is found dead on an island her family owns during their family reunion. Throughout the novel, you discover they type of person Amy is by seeing what she went through, how she tried to get herself away from her molester, how she fought back, etc while at the same time trying to figure out who finally ended the man’s life. Yes, Amy has a love interest, but as you can see, the novel isn’t very romancy. Sorry about that. Luckily for you guys, and myself, I also write romances. I promise from here on out, if you hear from me, I will be sharing one of those pieces. I have one published piece, and about four others in the works, so surely I’ll have something to share with you guys each week. I really enjoyed reading everyone’s post last week and want to continue to be a part of the group.

Now enough of my blathering. On to what you really want to read. This WIP is romance novel set in the middle of the zombie apocalypse. This excerpt comes from chapter 3 when my couple first meet. 

“Why, here?” I asked still unsure as to why my home was so special. I had electricity, whoopty do. According to him so did about a dozen or more homes in the area.

“Why not,” he said, purposely being obtuse.

I wanted to knock that cocky smile off his face.

Before I could reply to his remark, Daniel stepped onto the porch. The man immediately had my attention. My anger and frustration at his superior forgotten for the moment. Military fatigues cover nearly every inch of the man, but not his eyes, which was probably why they were so noticeable. Even though he wasn’t looking in my direction, I could see that they were the most mesmerizing shade of emerald green.

Great, not only did I have a condescending military leader making me feel tiny and unimportant intent on sleeping under my roof, but I now had a man that would be able to turn me into a stammering fifteen-year-old if he ever turned his attention on me on my hands.

“Sir, the group will be here first thing…” Daniel started.

He looked at me as he was finishing his sentence. For a second, I was confused about what made him trail off the way he had, then I looked down at myself. I was wearing nothing but an oversized t-shirt and a thin flannel housecoat, which I hadn’t tied shut. Both articles of clothing barely reached my knees. To my utter horror, the fact that I wasn’t wearing a bra and the fact that hadn’t shaved my legs in over a month was plainly obvious to everyone looking at me. My night just kept getting better and better.

“Shit,” I spat and quickly pulled the housecoat closed. “Fine you can stay. Mi casa es su casa, and all that crap. Excuse me while I go put some clothes on.” With that, I turned and went upstairs.

Before I could disappear into my room, the leader called after me. “Ma’am.”

“Yes,” I said, looking over the banister.

“I would like to send one of my people up to examine you,” he said.

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Can't wait for this novel to come out to read a new romance novel, not a problem. Stop by Amazon today and download my supernatural romance, SHIFTER. After a one night stand with witch, shapeshifter, Dimitri, finds himself cursed and living with a human. While seeking a way to escape the human and break his curse, Dimitri falls in love his human, which puts both of their lives in danger. For more information, visit the novel's Facebook page or read sample chapters on Goodreads.

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Okay, for those of you who want to know more about HIM, here is another hundred words or so of HIM.

To my right I could feel my mother glaring at me. My gaze stayed focused on the mainland we were slowly leaving behind us. Every part of my being wanted to be back there. There was safe. There I could hide easier. There he wouldn’t potentially be waiting for me around every corner, hiding in every shadow so that he could “accidently” brush against me, couldn’t corner me in dark places and…

Want to know more about this upcoming novel, visit the novel's Facebook page or read the first chapter on Goodreads.

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 ***Important note. My internet is down at work, so I may not get to read everyone's posts until tomorrow night or Thursday.***

Meet My Character Monday Blog Tour #MMCMBH: Meet the Shane from HIM

**WARNING ADULT CONTENT***

Good Monday morning folks. Welcome back to the Meet My Character Monday Blog Hop. Today I want to introduce you to another character from my upcoming suspense/thriller HIM. Shane is one of the main characters in HIM. He is eighteen years old and is Amy’s boyfriend.

Shane meets Amy shortly after her sixteenth birthday when he starts working for her grandfather at his resort on Little Paw Island. Throughout the novel, Amy has a hard time getting people to believe her about her molester; that is until Shane. Shortly after meeting her, Shane tells Amy that he doesn’t trust her uncle. When she asks why, he says, “he is one of those snake oil salesman that promises you he has the cure to all your ailments, but what he really has is a fast tongue and vial of water with a bit of camphor oil added to it.”

In an effort to defend Amy, Shane causes Amy’s molester a bit of discomfort when he stays on the island. Shane insures that HE suffers “from occasional golf cart problems, air conditioning problems, and other randomly innocent problems during his stays on the island.”

Shane also helps hide Amy from HIM during their last stay on the island, suffers greatly at the hands of HIM, and is nearly raped himself, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t fight back. Check out this scene from when HE tries to force himself on Shane.  

He only got a mere inch or two of himself in Shane’s mouth before letting out a loud harsh cry. In one quick movement, he pulled himself from Shane’s mouth and with one hand still holding the back of the boy’s head he punched Shane hard enough to draw a trickle of blood from a small cut right above his left eye. I screamed again, and made to move off the table.

“Son of a bitch bit me,” he said and punched Shane again.

At this I froze, understanding dawning on me, and I began to laugh.

He punched Shane one more time, knocking him unconscious, then dropped the boy and came back to me. “You think that was funny, do you?”

To find out more about what happens to Amy and Shane, check out the novel’s Facebook page or read the first chapter on Goodreads. This novel has a tentative release date of January 2015.

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Snippet Sunday and Weekend Writing Warriors - 11-16-14 #8sunday from SHIFTER

Thank you, everyone, for stopping by my tenth Weekend Writing Warriors’ #8Sunday and my second Snippet Sunday post.

Today’s excerpt comes from chapter ten of my supernatural romance, Shifter. In this scene, Abby has just returned home from taking Devan through her neighborhood looking for Dimitri.

“Yeah, I heard it all,” I say as I look up into her glowing face with bit of jealousy. She is a good woman, and my brother deserves a good woman, but why does he get to have this woman, and Dimitri is not happy about how well the two are getting along.

From the moment they walked out the door to the moment I heard them walking back up the steps, I have paced the living room floor waiting, wondering what could be taking them so long. My heart had warmed at the thought of her caring enough about me to help my brother search for me. In truth, I know that I’m not why she is helping him. She doesn’t know me from Adam. Devan is the one she is worried about. Devan is the one she is helping, and Devan is the one taking her out to dinner tomorrow night.

Want to know which brother she chooses? Download your copy of Shifter today at Amazon, Smashwords, Barnes and Noble, or Google Play. To find out more about this novel or me, peruse this cite or visit me on Facebook, Goodreads, Pinterest, and Twitter.

Stop by next weekend to read another snippet from this novel or stop by Weekend Writing Warriors to read excerpts from others or join in the fun. To check out Snippet Sunday posts and/or join that blog hop as well, see their Facebook page.

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WIP Update - 11-15-14

Sorry. This was supposed to go live yesterday, but I got lazy and behind. Here is peek at some of what I've been working this week.

Monday - 11-10-14 Ghost Story

I have finished the latest round of edits for HIM and have sent the novel back to my editor. Man that novel is a roller-coaster of emotions. I'm glad to get back to the ghost story, but those character are also having an emotional time right now. Here is a peak at what I worked on today: “First, I want to tell you how much I love you. I love you with every ounce of who I am. You are the only perso...n I have loved in a non-familial way. From the first day we met, I wanted you to be mine. At the time I hadn’t know what all that would entail, I just knew you were mine to love, to protect, to spend every moment of my life with. As were grew older those emotions morphed into wanting to make love to you, to wanting to marry you, to have children with you, to grow old with you."

Monday 11-10-14 HIM

Chapter 1 is now on Goodreads. Do to the content in this novel I will not be putting chapters on this FB page. You will have to create a Goodreads account to read this chapter. https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/375385?chapter=2

Wednesday 11-12-14 Ghost Story

Finished chapter 26 and started chapter 27 of the ghost story. I'm crying, but I understand why my character has to do what he is doing. Here is a snippet from what I worked on today:
"He felt his hold on Ian’s body loosening, and before he let go of the man forever, he said into Ian’s head, 'Take care of her for me. Love her the way she needs to be loved.'"

Thursday 11-13-14 Ghost Story

Chapter 27 done and chapter 28 started. Man, I'm on a roll. Surely I can finish the first draft of this by the end of the month. Yeah, I know I said that last month. LOL!!! Here is a peak at what I worked on today:
“Erica, I have something I want to talk to you about.”
“And that something is?”
“Michael.”
I caught her cup before it hit her lap.

WIP IT UP WEDNESDAY - Excerpt from HIM: Chapter 1

Welcome to my first ever WIP IT UP WEDNESDAY blog hop. For the next few weeks, I will be posting between 100 and 200 words of my upcoming novel HIM. Each post will come from beginning of each chapter in the novel. To learn more about his novel visit:

https://www.facebook.com/HIMaNovel

https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/375385-him?chapter=0

https://jennifer-reynolds-thzu.squarespace.com/#/him/

http://www.pinterest.com/talisman1222/him/

Want to join WIP IT UP WEDNESDAY, visit the website to see how or to check out other WIP IT UP WEDNESDAY posts.

Session One – Tuesday, May 4, 1999

Dr. Murphy: Now, after all these weeks, that you have finally decided that you are ready to tell me what happened to you on Little Paw Island, where do you think you should start?

Amy: I guess I should start with the first day of that last reunion. That seems as good a place as any to begin.

Dr. Murphy: Why have you picked that day?

Amy: I don’t know. Maybe because it is one of the clearest memories I have. If I start there, maybe the rest will come a little easier.

Dr. Murphy: All right, then start there.

Amy: Telling this story feels weird. Are you sure you want to hear some of this? Things are going to be a bit graphic.

Dr. Murphy: I can handle whatever you tell me. If I couldn’t, I wouldn’t be in this line of work.

Amy: Fair enough. Okay, here goes. The trip started just as all the others…

Meet My Character Monday Blog Tour #MMCMBH: Meet the Alisa from IN THE DARK

Welcome back to my Meet My Character Monday Blog Hop post. Today I’m introducing Alisa, the main character of my new FREE short story, In the Dark.

Alisa is a fictional character living in the fictional town of Woodsville in New England. She is a writer and a newbie to town, meaning she is all anyone can talk about.

Although there isn’t anything special about her, “Alisa had been the topic of every secret conversation for months when she first moved here because she just showed up one day and bought a house. She was a single woman with no children and no reason for settling in their town, and they did not like her sudden appearance. Even the realtor was hesitant about selling her the house she now owns. Alisa is convinced that the woman ran every possible background check she could on Alisa, trying to find an excuse not to sell her the house before letting her sign the papers….They did not “think it right” for a single woman pushing thirty to lock herself up day and night in a dark, tiny house on a nearly deserted little lane. Since she is a writer, her home is her life.”

She likes being a woman of mystery, and her main goal in this novel is to live through the night.

To find out more about this vampire, download your copy of In the Dark, free at Smashwords or Barnes and Noble or read it at Goodreads.

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Snippet Sunday and Weekend Writing Warriors - 11-9-14 #8sunday from SHIFTER

Thank you, everyone, for stopping by my ninth Weekend Writing Warriors’ #8Sunday and my first Snippet Sunday post.

Today’s excerpt comes from chapter nine of my supernatural romance, Shifter. Here is another early encounter between Abby and Devan. ***Side note: I have slightly altered the first line of this scene to meet WWW guidelines.***

“You don’t know how lovely you are,” he says, reaching up to tuck a bit of hair behind my ear. I step away as soon as the hair is in place, not giving him a chance to let his fingers linger anywhere.

“Sorry,” I say at his hurt look. “I’m all sweaty. I just finished working out, and figured I should do a little housework before I bathed, then I remember I hadn’t checked my box in over a week, and…”

His eyes look me up and down. The heated look in them makes my body flush an even darker red than it already is.

“Are you still searching for your brother?”

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ALONE and SHIFTER in Trade Paper

For those of you out there who haven't picked up your copy of ALONE or SHITER, remember you can purchase a trade paper copy, which is slightly larger than a paperback, directly from me at Stained Glass Artistry. ALONE is $14.00 and SHIFTER is $12.00. For more information, message me at: www.jenniferlynnreynolds.com

Meet My Character Monday Blog Tour #MMCMBH: Meet the vampire from IN THE DARK

Welcome back to my Meet My Character Monday blog post. Sorry for the absence, but I had a tornado come through a few weeks back that did some damage, then I had to get ready for the release of my next FREE short story, In the Dark, which you will find out a little about in the post.

Now on to my next character: the unnamed vampire.  

Yep, I went for the Nosferatu look. No sparkly vampires here. :)

This fictional character from my new, free short story, In the Dark, set in New England, doesn’t have a name. The most important thing to know about this character is that he is a vampire, and not the vegan, sparkly kind. His main goal in the novel is to feed, and to feed on one person in particular, the main character in the novel, Alisa, but unfortunately for him, she won’t be easy prey.

Here is how Alisa sees him:

She peeks through the small opening, trying to get a good look at whomever it is doing the tapping. What she sees is a humanoid beast with dark, sunken, yellow eyes, hard, raised cheekbones, a rough brow, and razor sharp teeth. Her breath stops in her lungs. Her heart even stops beating for a second.

The tapping ceases. Alisa watches as the beast’s features quickly smooth out, and transform into a very handsome looking man, a man with long, blonde hair, soft, smooth skin and a dimpled chin. No matter how good-looking her eyes find him, her tingling spine feels the predatory vibe his body gives off.

To find out more about this vampire, download your copy of In the Dark, free at Smashwords or Barnes and Noble or read it at Goodreads.

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