Love is in the air - Blog Hop

 

 

It's almost Valentine's Day.  And while I can't say I'm a fan of the commercial version of the holiday, I do love the idea of spending time letting those we care most about know how we feel.

 

If you'd asked me when I first started my writing career if I wrote romance, I would have laughed and said "ah, no." It's not that I don't like the genre. But it's one of my dirty little secrets. You know those books you read when you're away at the beach, or when you just need to escape to a perfect world. I would have told you that I wrote fantasy.

 

As you can probably tell from the blog's tag line ("Stories about characters that live . . .and love."), I've had to readjust my thinking. I kept noticing that romance always crept into my stories. In those early ones, romance wasn't a main plot line, but a subplot.

 

Now I have three fantasy/romance short stories published in collections or an anthology and one fantasy/romance novella in print, and my current work in progress is an erotic romance. So, I write romance stories or ones with strong romantic elements most of the time. And for the Love Is In The Air Giveaway Hop, I'm giving away e-book versions of two of them: Shots At Redemption and Apollo Rising.

 

To enter the contest, please comment below. The contest will stay open until midnight EST on February 14 (of course), and the winner announced on this blog on February 16.

 

Shots At Redemption Blurb:

 

Even mythical beings need a chance to correct their mistakes and reclaim lost loves.\

We all make mistakes. In this collection, a witch, a goddess, and a dragon take their shots at redemption in the hope of reclaiming lost love.

In "Best Dressed and Obsessed", Janelle, a graduate-level witch, chooses a magic dress to enthrall her professor. Sadly, the dress is cursed. At her graduation ball, will she kiss the man she loves? Or kill him?

Eons ago, Zeus decreed that Odysseus leave Kalypso. In "Kalypso's Song", Odysseus is reborn as a scholar. Can Kalypso convince him to reclaim the love they were denied?

The sea dragon Ryu spares a ship crossing her domain when a human child aboard reminds her of her own lost children. Ryu finds an unlikely surrogate family in "A Sea Serpent's Tale". When her new family is attacked by another dragon, can Ryu save them?

Shots at Redemption. We want them. We need them. But, do we get them?

 

 

Apollo Rising Blurb:

 

Shot by Cupid's golden arrow, Apollo has only truly loved Daphne. He visits her each eclipse, and longs for reunion. He seeks the Fate's advice and learns he may finally restore Daphne to her true water nymph form by enlisting other gods' assistance.

 

If  Apollo fails Daphne will be lost to him forever. To regain Daphne's soul, Apollo must deal with the devil, King of the Underworld. Love-torn and treacherous, Hades would slay the pantheon to remain with his wife for the full year. Apollo's quest might just give Hades the leverage he needs to do so.

 

Will Pheobus Apollo surrender the sun to reclaim love? Can he break Daphne's curse or will his attempt destroy her forever? Will she still love him after millennia as a soulless tree? Will the end of the quest see Apollo rising, or in sunset?
 

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Don't forget to check out the other great blogs in the hop for more chances to win. 

Love is in the Air Blog Hop 2013

1.	Under the Covers (Host)	39.	LITERAL ADDICTION (US & Int)	77.	Dark Divas Reviews (INT)
2.	The Jeep Diva	40.	Dani Harper, PNR author, (INTL)	78.	Another Look Book Reviews (INT)
3.	Kindles and Wine	41.	Nite Lite Book Reviews (INT)	79.	Paperbook Queen (INT)
4.	Amber Lin	42.	Book Lovin' Mamas	80.	The Book Tart
5.	Addicted2Heroines	43.	I Smell Sheep (US)	81.	Delighted Reader (US)
6.	Miss Vain's Paranormal Fantasy (INT)	44.	Scarlett Sanderson (INT)	82.	Kristine Cayne
7.	Queen of All She Reads (Int)	45.	Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy	83.	Dana Delamar - Romantic Suspense (INT)
8.	Queen of the Night Reviews (Int)	46.	Rhian Cahill (INT)	84.	Ju Dimello (INT)
9.	Lea Barrymire (INT)	47.	Tabby @Insightful Minds (INT)	85.	Helena Harker
10.	Book Monster Reviews	48.	LaVerne Clark - Novel Natterings (INT)	86.	Evelyn Jules
11.	Cocktails and Books (int)	49.	Paranormal & Urban Fantasy Reviews {INT}	87.	Maggie Wells
12.	Reading Romances (INT)	50.	Riverina Romantics (INT)	88.	Donna Cummings (INT)
13.	Dakota Trace	51.	Book Savvy Babe (INT)	89.	HEA Romances With A Little Kick
14.	Isabelle Drake	52.	Cari Quinn (US & INT)	90.	Ana♥ @ Beach Bum Reads
15.	Nicole Morgan	53.	Patricia Leever	91.	Amanda P @ Paranormal Romance
16.	Diane Thorne - Erotic Romance Author	54.	Wendi Zwaduk	92.	Amanda and Dawn @ Lets Get Romantical(DOM)
17.	Cabal of Hotness (INT)	55.	Megan Slayer	93.	3 Partners in Shopping USA
18.	lisa beth darling	56.	Talk Supe	94.	Deal Sharing Aunt USA
19.	Ren's Little Corner (INT)	57.	Lee Brazil	95.	Sinfully Sexy Book Reviews
20.	DMG-Spike (INT)	58.	June Kramin	96.	Bonnie Bliss
21.	The Secret Sanctuary of Books (INT)	59.	Romance Book Club	97.	Michelle Clay
22.	Dianne Hartsock (INT)	60.	Close Encounters with the Night Kind	98.	Natalie-Nicole Bates (INT)
23.	Happily Ever After - Reads (INT)	61.	Taboo Reviews by Lolita	99.	Author Julieanne Reeves
24.	Books of Love (US Only)	62.	Kerry~I am a book addict...and proud of it (INT)	100.	Christine@ RCJR eZine Blog
25.	Holley Trent (INT)	63.	Desiree Holt	101.	Ann Cory (US/CAN)
26.	Kallypso Masters	64.	Read Our Lips! Book Review Blog	102.	Nancy DiMauro
27.	DC Juris	65.	Romancing the Dark Side (INT)	103.	Eleni Konstantine
28.	Billi Jean	66.	Nya Rayne	104.	Nicky Penttila
29.	Guilty Pleasures Book Reviews	67.	http://spicyromanceconnection.blogspot.com/	105.	The Book Referees
30.	Bianca Sommerland	68.	CS Maxwell ~ Where's My Muse (US)	106.	Blakely Chorpenning
31.	Kindred Dreamheart (INT)	69.	Darkest Addictions (Int.)	107.	Literal Hotties Naughty Book Reviews
32.	Paige Tyler	70.	Simply Ali	108.	Susan D. Taylor
33.	Hot Listens (INT)	71.	Goldilox and the Three Weres (INT)	109.	Rhonda Laurel
34.	Serenity Woods (INT)	72.	Sara Daniel	110.	Lily Harlem
35.	Maxine Mansfield	73.	AJ's Reading Nook (INT)	111.	Hannah Fielding Romance Novelist (INT)
36.	Rhys Astason (INT)	74.	Blackraven's Erotic Cafe (INT)	112.	Aubrey Watt (INT)
37.	Natasha Blackthorne ~ Erotic Romance (INT)	75.	Blackraven's Reviews (INT)	113.	Normandie Alleman (US & INT)
38.	Day Dreaming Book Reviews	76.	The Readers Roundtable (INT)	114.	Book Sniffers Anonymous (INT)

FREE today on Amazon - Apollo Rising

Apollo Rising is FREE today and tomorrow on Amazon!  Please check it out.

Shot by a golden arrow, Apollo has only truly loved Daphne. He visits her each eclipse, and longs for reunion. He seeks the Fates’s advice and learns he may finally restore Daphne to her true water nymph form by enlisting other gods’ assistance. 

If Apollo fails Daphne will be lost to him forever. To regain Daphne’s soul, Apollo must deal with the devil, King of the Underworld.  Love-torn and treacherous, Hades would slay the pantheon to remain with his wife for the full year. Apollo’s quest might just give Hades the leverage he needs to do so.

Will Pheobus Apollo surrender the sun to try to reclaim love? Can he break Daphne’s curse or will his attempts destroy her forever? Will she still love him after millennia as a soulless tree? With the end of the quest see Apollo rising, or in sunset?


Excerpt:

A soft glow beckoned from around a corner. While Hades pretended to be a traditionalist, he indulged in modern conveniences every chance he could. Ultra-violet panels, the ones mortals used to simulate sunlight, glowed from inside the walls. They brought day into the vaulted cavern. Hades had encrusted the ceiling with aquamarines since Apollo’s last visit. The light played off them simulating a summer sky. Another token of Hades’s love. Stalactites wider than a city bus hung from the ceiling. Others met stalagmites to form fluted columns reminiscent of the Pantheon. Stone draperies served as curtains, which separated Persphone’s chamber, and Hades’s media room from the main audience hall.

Reaching the center of the room, Apollo dropped to one knee.

“Lord Hades, I come to you as a supplicant.”

Hades could have passed for one of the stalagmites with his sharp and jagged features. His skin held a bluish cast from lack of sunlight. Obsidian color hair hung loose to his shoulders. Flint hard eyes glared at Apollo.

Persephone, on the other hand, reminded Apollo of a spring breeze. Sunshine colored hair swept away from olive skin, slightly pales in her time in the Underworld. Her bright ginger-colored tunic broke the unrelieved grays and blacks of the great hall.

“What brings you here?” Hades’s voice reverberated through the chamber.

Apollo raised an eyebrow. “I seek information, and possibly a trade.”

“Rise.”

The few times Apollo had needed something from Hades, he’d been treated as an honored guest. But not this time.

Enraged to the point of incivility by Persephone’s upcoming desertion, Hades was likely to vent his temper on any target. Sadly, Apollo provided him with one that could give him a decent fight. Daphne’s soul might cost more than Apollo could pay.

“What do you wish of me?” Hades asked.

“I wish to barter for Daphne’s soul.”

“I never said I had her.”

They’d never been friends, but then, they hadn’t been enemies either. There really wasn’t any reason for Hades to oppose Apollo’s attempt to rescue Daphne.

“Does that mean you are going to vie her to me?” Apollo asked.

“Give? Give? Now why would I do that?” Hades’s laugh grated in Apollo’s ears.

“What do you want, Hades?”

His gaze went hard. “A boon.”

“What kind?”

“Unlimited. To be provided when I demand.”

Apollo choked. If he agreed Hades could demand anything from him. Even the sun. The God of the Underworld had never been happy with his lot. Hades had helped his brothers, Zeus and Poseidon, wrestle the cosmos from Cronus. The brothers then drew lots for their domains. Zeus chose the sky, which is why Apollo as his son, was the Sun God. Poseidon chose the sea. But the brothers tricked Hades into becoming Death. In choosing the underworld, Hades lost the ability to walk comfortably in the sunlight. But if he took the sun from Apollo, Hades could remain above ground with Persphone.

Could Phoebus Apollo lose the sun?

Who would he be without it?


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