Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Back To You heroine Lynsey Reznor tells all about Nick Lincoln







This is the second interview in a series of interviews with Lynsey Reznor, my heroine from my contemporary romance and 2012 Finalist for Best Short Romance at the Festival of Romance Reader's Awards.



NNB: I’m pleased today to be able to interview my character, Lynsey Reznor. Lynsey will be dishing the gossip on one of Unity’s eligible bachelors, Nick Lincoln!

NNB: Welcome, Lynsey! Tell me how life has been since your move from Miami to sleepy little Unity.

LR: It’s been a bit of an adjustment, but over all I’m very happy to be home again among my friends.

NNB: A little bird has told me that Unity is chock full of eligible bachelors. Could you enlighten me?

LR: Well, I don’t like to gossip (wink! wink!) but I can share a little of my insider info with you.

NNB: What can you tell me about Nick Lincoln? Rumor has it that he was your first love.

LR: The Unity rumor mill must be in full production these days. Nick was my first big crush when I was a teenager. Nothing could ever come of it back then because he was engaged to someone else.
NNB: That must have been heartbreaking.

LR: Devastating, actually. But I was only sixteen. Anyway, I was offered a one-year scholarship in Switzerland. I stayed on an additional four years. It was the best move I could have made.

NNB: Now that Nick is a single man again, is there any chance of the two of you getting together?

LR: I would love nothing more, but I’ve got to stay real about the possibilities. I’m at a stage in my life where I’m ready to settle down and have children. Nick is at a stage in his life where he wants to spend some time alone. He doesn’t foresee children in his future.

NNB: So the two of you are more or less at an impasse?

LR: For now, yes. But I still have hopes for a future together.

NNB: I’ll keep my fingers crossed and think good thoughts for you and Nick. Thank you for sharing a little personal insight into Nick Lincoln. Find out more about Nick in Back To You, now available at Amazon through Books To Go Now Publishing.


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Blurb:

On the surface, Lynsey Reznor seems to have it all. She is beautiful, brilliant, and a successful true-crime writer who has been living the past decade in Miami. But what Lynsey lacks is what she needs the most—a family.

After the death of her mother, and yet another failed relationship, Lynsey makes an impulsive decision to return to her hometown of Unity. But Unity will present its own bittersweet memories, most notably, her first love, Nick Lincoln.


Twenty years ago, Nick broke teenager Lynsey’s heart when he decided to marry another. He had his own private reasons—reasons he never explained to Lynsey. Now she is back, along with a chance to reclaim her love. But Lynsey wants answers from him that he may never be able to give out of duty and guilt.

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Thursday, December 5, 2013

Natalie-Nicole interviews Lynsey Reznor from Back To You




I have the joy today of interviewing the heroine of my contemporary romance Back To You. Lynsey is going to dish about her return to her hometown of Unity! This interview is the first in a series of interviews I've done with characters from Back To You, and will share in the upcoming weeks.



NNB: Welcome home, Lynsey! How does it feel to be back in Unity after so many years?

LR: I’m very happy to be home again among friends. I do admit though I am a little nervous.

NNB: Nervous?

LR: I’ve been away for well over a decade. People have come and gone, everything has changed.

NNB: Miami must have been a great place for the last ten years. What made you decide to give up the sun and fun for small town living.

LR: Since my mother passed away I’ve had a lot of time to think about my future. I’m at age now where I want to settle down and start a family. Unity offers me a comforting, familiar place among friends.

NNB: Speaking of settling down, is there any chance at all of you rekindling your romance with the wildly popular progressive rock star Quinn Michaels with whom you’ve been linked to romantically?
LR: Although I enjoyed my time with Quinn, our relationship is a thing of the past. I don’t think Quinn will ever settle down into a normal life. Right now, I crave stability.

NNB: Is there anyone in Unity in particular that you are happy to be reuniting with?

LR: There’s my best friend Suzy. We’ve known each other since we were little girls. I’ve missed her tremendously since I left Unity all those years ago. There’s also Suzy’s brother, Nick.

NNB: I hear that Nick Lincoln is single and available once again. Any chance of a love connection?

LR: I would love nothing more, but Nick is a year out of a long-term marriage. I think he thinks of me as a surrogate sister. He tells me that he may never want to settle into another long term relationship, that he doesn’t foresee fatherhood in his future.

NNB: How does that make you feel?

LR: Sad, actually. I think of all the eligible men in Unity—and there are several—Nick will always be my first choice for a husband.

NNB: Well, I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you. Thank you for taking a few minutes out of your busy schedule to talk with me.

To find out more about Lynsey, Nick, and even Quinn, read Back To You available now at Amazon through Books To Go Now!

Blurb:

On the surface, Lynsey Reznor seems to have it all. She is beautiful, brilliant, and a successful true-crime writer who has been living the past decade in Miami. But what Lynsey lacks is what she needs the most—a family.

After the death of her mother, and yet another failed relationship, Lynsey makes an impulsive decision to return to her hometown of Unity. But Unity will present its own bittersweet memories, most notably, her first love, Nick Lincoln.

Twenty years ago, Nick broke teenager Lynsey’s heart when he decided to marry another. He had his own private reasons—reasons he never explained to Lynsey. Now she is back, along with a chance to reclaim her love. But Lynsey wants answers from him that he may never be able to give out of duty and guilt.

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Thursday, November 28, 2013

Forgiveness by Dilys J. Carnie




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The first book in The Fitzgerald Brothers is called One Night One Mistake. The heroin, Eva is a strong, independent woman who made a mistake that caused her a traumatic loss. With age comes a wisdom and the scars on the outside heal far quicker than the ones inside.

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Do we learn from our mistakes? Do we get to an age where we should know better? I guess life is a journey of living and part of living is to make mistakes and learn from them. Hurting from the inside out can cause the ruptures of heartache to become imbedded into our souls, but forgiving makes us better human beings. Trusting and forgetting is another story.

The most important lessons in life are from the bad mistakes we make, learning from them so that we don’t repeat them. Developing the wisdom and sense that controls our decisions can only come from bad choices.

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new” Albert Einstein. Philosophical words…but invariably there are those heart-breaking mistakes that scar us forever, the type that stay with you constantly it doesn’t matter how hard you try to put them behind you.

Eva and Gabe travel a journey where neither one can offer forgiveness for the mistake they made on one night of impulse. Walking away lost Eva ten years of her life and letting her go cost Gabe the woman he loved. Will he be able to understand why she left? Will she ever be able to love again?

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

The Tightening Spiral Giveaway!

Horror Haikus for The Tightening Spiral



Hello there! I’m here today to promote my newest anthology of short horror and suspense fiction. For something different, I have summarized some of the stories from my collection in haikus.
I admit, when I first decided to do this post, I thought maybe I’d gotten WAY out of my depth. I have written poetry, but never a successful haiku. But with a little brush up on what makes a haiku (three lines of 5-7-5 syllables are the “guidelines”) I figured what could go wrong? So here are some horror haikus for selected stories from my upcoming horror and suspense short story anthology with Hazardous Press, called The Tightening Spiral. Try a copy. It makes for GREAT reading when you only have a few moments to spare!

ChoosetheVictim.com
Five girls’ names offered
By a writer seeking fans
Good wet inspiration

The Prison
Man on a mission
To break others out of prison
Finds his plan has flaws

In the Night
Mother and Daughter
Enjoy hunting hitchhikers
Mom, your turn to gut.

Say Goodbye
Her child is missing
Every minute ticks faster
Eat the poison berries, son

The Bribe
A cold beach at night
Evil lurks under the pier
Coin for your silence.

The Lie
Stop social climber
With a spoken vague falsehood
In return? Bullets

Not Enough
Save a beloved bro
With a vampiric virus
Infect the whole town

Granma’s House
Girl alone hears noises
Thinks her dead grandparents are there
Instead...a killer.
                       
Black Smoke
Woman who sees smoke
Confronts her fear in the crypt
Smoke gets her anyway


Let Me In
Demon comes calling
Woman sells her soul for love
The devil laughs last

The Tunnel
Shelter for world war
Becomes a scene of murder
Something waits below

Cold Enough
Iceman seeks storage
To endure coming summer
Stops killer as bonus

Making Hay
Old bitch nags at him
Hired hand has had enough
Buries her in hay

Face Recognition
Failsafe directive
Sends robot on killing spree
No escape, human

The Memory of Trees
Streets are utterly silent
Pro-earths release mutagen
Don’t stand still too long

The Network
The social network
Everyone too busy to care
TakeUSBack.com

End of Days
Supernova bomb
Trek south to kids’ salvation
But Sam’s already changing

ENTER THE GOODREADS GIVEAWAY HERE!  3 print copies available: https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/71054-the-tightening-spiral

Blurb: Tara Fox Hall’s second collection of short suspense and horror stories, ranging from novella to microfiction in length. Chock full of demons, serial killers, social climbers, zombies, activists, ghosts, and the occasional happy ending…of sorts.
Excerpt from ChoosetheVictim.com:
 Stan stared at the letter on his glowing computer screen, furious. His newest work, My Victim, had been rejected. His editor said it “wasn’t horrifying enough” and had suggested a rewrite to “up the scare factor.” All his work with Kate—more on point, on her skin—had been for nothing.
Resisting his urge to throw the laptop across the room, Stan closed his eyes and took a deep breath. Destroying inanimate objects wouldn’t slack his rage. But destroying an animate one might. The key here was to gain not only some peace of mind, but also inspiration.
Stan opened another internet window, and typed in an address. His website came up: www.myvictim.com, the stark image of the survival knife shining with just a faint sheen of blood against the pristine white background.
He had tried several promotions in the last few months to encourage readers. Serial killer books were plentiful in small presses. He’d gotten a mixed response, until he’d decided to do some real life research and post some of his findings. But that small increase had been nothing when he’d invited his audience into the kill. Suddenly his inbox had been brimming with emails, all wanting to offer up victims they knew. As if he was an idiot! Stan was not going to be stupid. He’d come too far to be caught now.
Instead, Stan had launched a contest; Name My Victim. He had put in five random girl’s names, saying whomever got the most votes would be killed. He’d never thought to go through with it. But he’d gotten five hundred votes in the first ten minutes, five thousand total. At first, he had been thrilled so many people had responded with Katlyn. Luck and a little computer hacking had lead him to a girl called Kate. Then he had been worried that the coincidence would lead the police to his door. He needed a better method for choosing victims...
A Facebook notification popped into his email. Irritated, Stan went to delete it, then stopped cold. Here was the perfect place to find new victims. There wouldn’t be a trail on his computer for cops to find, because he wouldn’t need to hack anything; all the information was at his fingertips. All he would need to do was run his contest on his website…then choose a winner with a name like the most popular victim. There was a limitless supply of people with their entire lives online: where they ate, where they worked, how they lived. There were tons of pictures of their houses, their kids, their spouses, and their neighborhood. No address was posted usually, but enough clues to easily find one.
Sure, most people didn’t make all their info public. But he could always get a new email address, and build a new avatar. All he would have to do was make a study of those he wanted to kill. Once he knew a few of their interests, he could formulate an identity that would ensure his friend request would be accepted by his victim-to-be. Once he was in, he could get the info he wanted. Then would come the tantalizing wait for his readers to select that name from the list of choices.

God, this was going to be fun! Stan laughed aloud in glee, then began scanning random names by typing in letter combinations. There was no time to waste.
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