12 Days of Christmas Blog Hop

December 1st - 12th

Hosted by: As You Wish Reviews & Confessions of the Paranormal
Sponsors: As You Wish Tours & Book Dragon Designs

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There is nothing better than welcoming the holidays with a hot oven, baking fresh cookies.!
All through this blog you have got different cookie recipes, how yummy is that! I all time favorite is
Peanut butter cookies

Ingredients

                    1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup packed brown sugar

1/2 cup butter, room temperature

1/2 cup peanut butter

1 egg

1 1/4 cup flour

3/4 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1/4 teaspoon salt

Method

1 Beat the butter until creamy, 2 minutes. Add the sugars, beat for 2 more minutes. Mix in the peanut butter and egg. Mix together the dry ingredients - flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Stir the dry ingredients into the sugar butter mixture.

2 Wrap dough in plastic and refrigerate at least 3 hours.

3 Preheat oven to 375°F. Shape dough into 1 1/4 inch balls. Place about 3 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Flatten in crisscross pattern with a fork. Bake until light brown, 9 to 10 minutes. Cool on baking sheets for a minute; transfer to rack to cool completely.

For chewier cookies, bake at 300°F for 15 minutes.

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Fourteen hundred miles has separated Bailey Jones, from a tragic heartache. After her first love ends their relationship, Bailey continues forward with her decision to move with her Aunt in Maine. Adjusting to a new home, job, and friends was supposed to be simple but love interests have come knocking on her door.
The question is can either of them be trusted? Each of them is harboring secrets but once exposed, will it send Bailey running or will it be her salvation? Amongst the chaos of her love life, a unexpected appearance comes back into her life and could possibly change everything.
Bailey is ‘Learning the Lies’ but which will she accept?

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Participating Authors

Cover Reveal for Change of Possession by M.R Polish

I am so excited to show you this cover! Change of Possession is the first New Adult, Romantic Suspense M.R. Polish has written. Early readers have come back saying it is a "Page Turner" and 

"A Book I can't Put Down!" 

Change of Possession

Twenty-year-old Keeley- Moison moves across the country for one reason: to escape the traumas of her past and start over at a new college. What she doesn’t expect is to be thrust into a dangerous future - one where the quarterback of the football team has set his sinister sights on her.

Loner Vahn Silver is an outcast and likes it that way. Living in the shadows, Vahn forces himself into the light to protect Keeley from the man who killed his best friend - even if that means risking his own life. 

But Keeley soon learns that the football team rules the school and everyone in it. When Vahn ends up in the hospital after a vicious attack and her quarterback stalker edges closer to his prey, Keeley must find the strength within herself to fight - and take back the change of possession.

So, without further ado.....the cover!

The Spooky Spectacular Event

The Spooky Spectacular Event will kick off Friday and run through midnight Sunday (Oct 18-20). Featuring 60+ of today's hottest authors, $1,000 in prizes and tons of awesome giveaways (Kindle Fires anyone? Coach wristlets?), the event is going to be a blast!

And most importantly, readers will be able to fill up their Kindles with incredible ebooks, all priced at .99! Check out all the gorgeous books at the event's webpage. Just click here!

RSVP at the event's FB page to be automatically entered into the drawing for one of three Kindle Fires! Click here to visit the event page. Instructions for earning extra entries for the drawing will be on the event page! Additional links to Rafflecopter entries for other giveaways will also be available on the event page as well. A special thank you goes out to Lisa Markson, Leanne Jacobson, Stephanie Shaw and Emily Rae for all their help with the event. You all rock! Spooky Spectacular sponsored by ...

Lizzy Ford (Website, Facebook page, Twitter)

 

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Cover Reveal "Learning The Lies" By D. Love

Coming this Winter

 

 Learning The Lies by: D. Love

Cover Design: BookFabulous Designs

Image by: Tina's Photography

 

Fourteen hundred miles has separated Bailey Jones, from a tragic heartache. After her first love ends their relationship, Bailey continues forward with her decision to move with her Aunt in Maine.

Adjusting to a new home, job, and friends was supposed to be simple but love interests have come knocking on her door. The question is can either of them be trusted? Each of them is harboring secrets but once exposed, will it send Bailey running or will it be her salvation?

Amongst the chaos of her love life, a unexpected appearance comes back into her life and could possibly change everything.

Bailey is ‘Learning the Lies’ but which will she accept?



About the Author:

Derinda lives in Maine. Her biggest passion is for her family and friends. She adores loving others as if it is the biggest gift life can offer. She is a read-a-holic, loves chocolate, cowboys and everyone on her Young Adult & Teen Readers Facebook page.

 She is also the host for the New Maine Author Convention. www.believehopelive.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

While you are waiting on Learning The Lies to come out,  Check out D. Love's Today Only

 

Author Website:

http://authordlove.blogspot.com/

Author FB Fan page:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/D-Love/460898927326110

Blog

http://yesterdayandtomorrowsreads.blogspot.com/

YATR

https://www.facebook.com/YaTeenReaders

Personal Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/derinda.love

Twitter

https://twitter.com/DerindaL

Amazon:
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The Fawn Cover Reveal by Susan Griscom

Title: The Fawn

Author: Susan Griscom

Genre: New Adult

Publisher: Amber Glow Books

Release date: Winter/Spring 2014

 Note: Contains strong language and violence.

Description:

After a not-so-wonderful young adulthood—shuffled from one foster home to another—Lena Benton had hoped marriage would be her ticket to happiness. Wedded a year after high school graduation, Lena was certain she’d found her knight. But when Troy Harington’s true colors surface shortly after their glorious day of elopement, things aren’t quite as rosy as Lena had envisioned. When an unforeseen event turns ugly, all she can do is ... run!

But does she run far enough?

Jackson Beaumont prides himself on being a nature-loving, guitar-strumming carefree sort of guy, known for his eagerness to help injured animals find their way back into the wild. When Lena Benton walks into his bar, he’s once again swept off his feet with concern and desire to help the wounded. Will he risk having his heart torn apart again when the memory of the fawn he rescued as a child resurfaces?

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Something about Susan

I grew up in a small town in Pennsylvania, spending most of my time daydreaming or playing around in the mud. I grew out of the mud play, well, most of the time, a good soak in the mud is always fun. I still daydream often and sometimes my daydreams interrupt my daydreams. So, I write to remember them. If I didn't write, I think my mind would explode from an overload of fantasy and weirdness. To the annoyance of my friends and family, my characters sometimes become a part of my world. During my childhood, I would frequently get in trouble in school for daydreaming. Eventually, my vivid imagination paid off and I had the privilege of writing and co-directing my sixth-grade class play--a dreadful disaster, though not from my writing, of course. I'm pretty sure it was the acting.

I enjoy writing about characters living in small quaint towns and sometimes they tend to lean toward the unusual and edgy.

My paranormal playing field delves into a different milieu, abandoning vampires and werewolves, but not discounting them. Someday I might like to write a novel about vamps and those furry creatures. But for now I like the bizarre mixed with romance. A strong hero or heroine confronted with extraordinary forces of nature, powers and capabilities gets my blood running hot as does a steamy contemporary romantic suspense.

Author Links:

Website: http://susangriscom.com

Blog: http://swblog.susangriscom.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/SusanGriscom

Facebook Author Page: http://www.facebook.com/SMGriscom

Facebook personal:  https://www.facebook.com/SusanGriscom1

Goodread: http://www.goodreads.com/SusanGriscom

Other works by Susan Griscom include:

Whisper Cape, book 1, a steamy paranormal romance trilogy.

Reflections, Whisper Cape book 2

A Secret Fate, Whisper Cape book 3 Releasing November, 2013

Allusive Aftershock a young adult contemporary/dystopian

Brief Interludes – a collection of short stories

Erotic Interludes – an anthology of two erotic tales.

Enter below for A Special Treat - A Giveaway of 

A Secret Fate, Whisper Cape book 3 when available.

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Today Only's first award!

I am so excited Today Only won its very first award!

 

Check out this awesome site that gave us the award

 

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Beautiful Labor Day Ebook Sale and Giveaway!!!

Labor Day is fast approaching; a day that we take the time to recognize the economic and social contributions of hard working Americans! Many of us take the long weekend to barbeque, rest and relax and maybe even catch up on our sleep. But if you’re a true bibliophile, you are probably bypassing all of that in hopes of getting in some valuable reading time! This week, discovering new authors and taking advantage of their marked down titles can earn you entries toward a Kindle Fire or Nook HD, winner’s choice! With a diverse selection of books including Young Adult, New Adult, Romance, and Erotic Romance, you’re sure to find some awesome reads for the upcoming holiday weekend!

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My heart thanks you all!

First of all I would like to tell each one of you thank you! Thank you for the prayers, well wishes, support for my family. Thank you for loving me. 

I know a lot of you have questions about what happen. About 4 months ago I picked up a small cold, which eventually turned into phenomena. Everything spiraling from there. However, I am blessed and alive.  Yes I did have a heart attack but was blessed to be able to make it through it. Strength and love is what carried me through I am sure. Then we found out I had a prior one as well. 

I look forward to this day forward of doing what I love to do most. Help all of you, on your beautiful journeys. So please do not be worried about contacting me for help. I am ready and burning to get started again. 

I will also be finishing my new release that will be out this fall. I can not wait! 

I love you all. Each one of you were a burning light in my recovery! 

Love Derinda

I never understood how attached you can be to your first book, until now!

My first book was Today Only

 

Writing this book sent me through such a amazing, yet emotional roller-coaster. But I have enjoyed every last minute of it. Even after close to 100 reviews, I am still shaking when I know someone is reading it. Is that normal? LOL

 

Anyways, this is probably the short post I have ever made but I just wanted to really thank everyone. You are amazing, you are so profoundly good to me. I hope I can always be as wonderful to you.

 

So I hope you will bare with me, in the amazing journey. I am learning and love advice.

 

With all my love,

Derinda 

Welcome Everyone

Welcome to my new Author blog and thank you so much for your support and love!