InterVamption is a Daphne du Maurier Award of Excellence finalist!
I can't believe it. I'm blown away. Stunned. Speechless.
Since I first started writing, I've expressed to anyone and everyone how special that contest is to me. How much I love REBECCA, Daphne Du Maurier's greatest work. (REBECCA is far and away my favorite book. The only book I've read more than once--and I've read it five times.) Anyone who knows me well knows how many times I've said that I'd absolutely love to final in her contest.
And I did! Well, InterVamption did. I'm so proud of her...
The award ceremony will be held at RWA's national conference in LA. I feel like my dream has already come true merely being a finalist...I can't imagine it could get better from here.
(In case you were wondering how I handled the news, I screamed and cried and asked the caller if she was playing a sick joke on me. She wasn't. I'm so glad.)
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Spotlighting Faythe Reclaimed!
Book Spotlight:
Faythe Reclaimed
Blurb:
Running through a strange forest with a bloodthirsty demon
hot on her heels wasn’t Taylor’s idea of a rockin’ evening. Then again, neither
was soaring backward through time and space. Time travel chafed and left a
rank, nasty aftertaste. So, when she finds herself floundering amidst a sea of
Commandment-loving holy rollers who fling accusations of witchcraft and
bedevilment like hotcakes in a diner, finding her way home jumps to the top of
her to do list. Too bad she can’t remember who she is or where she came from.
And if that wasn’t bad enough, Taylor realizes she’s fallen for Gabriel, the
mysterious Latin warlock who came to her rescue.
Battling an identity crisis and lost in a time that’s not her own, Taylor is determined to find her way back to twenty-first century Hanaford Park. But first, she and Gabriel must work together to uncover the dark scourge lurking in the shadows of Salem Village, and in doing so, save their lives, and the lives of countless innocents from a lethal date with the hangman’s noose.
Battling an identity crisis and lost in a time that’s not her own, Taylor is determined to find her way back to twenty-first century Hanaford Park. But first, she and Gabriel must work together to uncover the dark scourge lurking in the shadows of Salem Village, and in doing so, save their lives, and the lives of countless innocents from a lethal date with the hangman’s noose.
Available at:
AmazonBarnes & Noble
Tulipe Noire Press
About the author:
Lisa Sanchez is a California cheer mom taxiing her way
through life, one car ride at a time. Along with chauffer, she sports several
job titles, including, but not limited to: author, chef, seamstress,
videographer, nurse, enforcer, and general slave to her three daughters.
The first two books in her Hanaford Park series (Eve Of Samhain, Pleasures Untold) are published with Omnific Publishing. The third book, Faythe Reclaimed, releases with Tulipe Noire Press on May 17th 2012. Her erotic suspense, Obsessed was published March 29th 2011 with Loose Id. Lisa also took the plunge into self-publishing this year and released the first novella, Cursing Athena, in her new Order Of Seven erotic paranormal romance series.
The first two books in her Hanaford Park series (Eve Of Samhain, Pleasures Untold) are published with Omnific Publishing. The third book, Faythe Reclaimed, releases with Tulipe Noire Press on May 17th 2012. Her erotic suspense, Obsessed was published March 29th 2011 with Loose Id. Lisa also took the plunge into self-publishing this year and released the first novella, Cursing Athena, in her new Order Of Seven erotic paranormal romance series.
Blog:www.lisasanchezromanceauthor.com
Twitter: @LisaSanchez3
Excerpt:
Dark, viscous liquid pooled onto
the rotting floorboards below her body, the blackened puddle oddly reminiscent
of a Rorschach inkblot.
Suppressed memories and emotions
I’d believed long dead amassed from deep within, slamming me with a powerful
crescendo of…Madre de Dios…feeling.
Something I hadn’t experienced since the moment I’d lost my other half.
Nausea and desperation mimicked
acid, burning a hole through my gut and my chest as I allowed my gaze to wander
north. I knew what I’d find, and, fuck it
all to hell, it scared me to death.
Taylor. The exotic beauty who’d
breezed into my life just days before. The angel who’d awoken me from the state
of numbness I’d resided in for three centuries. The woman who was an exact
match in every way to my long deceased Faythe, hanged upside down and
unconscious in front of me.
Thud…
Thud…
Thud…
My heartbeat… It echoed in my
ears like a muted drumbeat. The rapid tympani so synonymous with anger and rage
oddly diminished and muffled as though I were listening to it from deep within
the bowels of the ocean.
How? How had I allowed my enemy
to capture the beautiful creature who’d breathed life into my pathetic
existence?
I thrashed against the magical
bonds holding me captive, every fiber of my being filled with panic,
desperation—and rage. Supernatural throwdowns were a normal part of my everyday
life. A warlock, an exiled member of one of Europe’s most powerful covens, I’d
been bred to do battle, to fight the dregs of the underworld—with magic.
Magic.
It had been my
saving grace, time and again. It was also the bane of my fucking existence. Much
like time. I hated my magic, almost as much as I hated myself. Witchcraft,
limitless power… Both proved worthless when they didn’t allow you to save the
one you loved. My magic hadn’t kept Faythe’s neck out of the hangman’s noose.
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Claimed by Desire release day!
CLAIMED BY DESIRE is now available!
As teenagers, dragon shifter Rafe Landon and empath Misty Burke shared a heart-stopping love and heated passion that neither expected…especially since on the mystical Isle of Feralon, dragons aren’t supposed to embrace members of other races. Fearing for Misty’s life should she be claimed as his rider, Rafe commits the ultimate sacrifice and sets his love free, banishing her from the enchanted isle.
The last thing he expects is for Misty to return to Feralon ten years later as a very mature, and deviously sexy woman on a mission: use her heightened sensory powers to locate the missing Draco stone, a sacred gem that strengthens the dragon race. But Rafe is hiding a secret of his own. Forsaking a rider will end his life…in two days time. Despite his eternal love for Misty, he refuses to imprison her on the isle, condemning her to an early grave.
For Misty, Rafe will gladly pay the ultimate sacrifice—he’ll die, so she can live.
It’s not long before Rafe and Misty are swept away by undercurrents of passion that never waned. Their quest to find the sacred stone may be more of a journey than either realized—one that not only leads to the lost gem, but to true, undying love.
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It's available at B&N.com and Amazon.com for $2.99 or Harlequin.com for $239 in all e-formats.
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Writing update: I finished Last Vamp Standing (Vampires of Crimson Bay #3) last night. I wrote a whopping 5200 words to bring the total to 95,000! (For reference: InterVamption was 103k and Vamped Up was 97k). I'm taking today off, then diving back into edits tomorrow. There's more to fix in LVS than the other two, so I'm not sure how long it will take me to polish this bad boy up, but at least it's finished! Sort of. Roughly. ;)
As teenagers, dragon shifter Rafe Landon and empath Misty Burke shared a heart-stopping love and heated passion that neither expected…especially since on the mystical Isle of Feralon, dragons aren’t supposed to embrace members of other races. Fearing for Misty’s life should she be claimed as his rider, Rafe commits the ultimate sacrifice and sets his love free, banishing her from the enchanted isle.
The last thing he expects is for Misty to return to Feralon ten years later as a very mature, and deviously sexy woman on a mission: use her heightened sensory powers to locate the missing Draco stone, a sacred gem that strengthens the dragon race. But Rafe is hiding a secret of his own. Forsaking a rider will end his life…in two days time. Despite his eternal love for Misty, he refuses to imprison her on the isle, condemning her to an early grave.
For Misty, Rafe will gladly pay the ultimate sacrifice—he’ll die, so she can live.
It’s not long before Rafe and Misty are swept away by undercurrents of passion that never waned. Their quest to find the sacred stone may be more of a journey than either realized—one that not only leads to the lost gem, but to true, undying love.
**********
It's available at B&N.com and Amazon.com for $2.99 or Harlequin.com for $239 in all e-formats.
***********
Writing update: I finished Last Vamp Standing (Vampires of Crimson Bay #3) last night. I wrote a whopping 5200 words to bring the total to 95,000! (For reference: InterVamption was 103k and Vamped Up was 97k). I'm taking today off, then diving back into edits tomorrow. There's more to fix in LVS than the other two, so I'm not sure how long it will take me to polish this bad boy up, but at least it's finished! Sort of. Roughly. ;)
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