tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12227103484170123632024-03-06T00:59:23.866-06:00Linda Kage Blog PageLinda Kage, romance author writes about books, movies, writing, and herself.Linda Kagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00259042112816376940noreply@blogger.comBlogger690125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222710348417012363.post-23459377421598871482022-11-28T09:10:00.086-06:002022-11-28T09:10:00.195-06:00Looking Forward and Looking Back<p> As you may know, I love to step back and take a look at what I've accomplished and then decide what I want to do next. </p><p>So here's a quick look back at some things I wanted to write...and then what I actually wrote!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu7j-khj1Oee0DFFLBzWJrekrqzLte8VPs_rBBkppXnU4VE9fWYYxKIdSWQKu0RvrPkI3ktAgL-SKvfsWPmcIZhbFassYrsjFR3RUcL5t4dmKJ3yBybYuITJ6dbbzivKQLQCjmoF39GnluA2ERSRW1LxQdSuk4Aa_5IZSrAir08QEocxk9uIbuzesgDw/s1480/2019quue.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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maybe that I'm getting better at predicting what I'm going to write. I'm not sure. But here is what I have plans to do going forward!<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0aVAs_WvNosT51gIXnCPJ_A7T0PxsXiXKaCjUwKZjT77NFqZ1k5ZhWXuZedVW5SQ89qR-1qnCrgj5YTmurDQ472y-gboWtpajFUN5DBIOC4SGqxVw84ejrXRxntKoCPGxkpZirs_Xu62psI0uTCx1xmQG1fpjPah1bJMK7FvETH-rUkBuYeZNzi3Zqg/s1480/2023queue.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="381" data-original-width="1480" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0aVAs_WvNosT51gIXnCPJ_A7T0PxsXiXKaCjUwKZjT77NFqZ1k5ZhWXuZedVW5SQ89qR-1qnCrgj5YTmurDQ472y-gboWtpajFUN5DBIOC4SGqxVw84ejrXRxntKoCPGxkpZirs_Xu62psI0uTCx1xmQG1fpjPah1bJMK7FvETH-rUkBuYeZNzi3Zqg/w640-h164/2023queue.png" width="640" /></a></div><b><div><b><br /></b></div>YEAR OF THE FLEDGLING</b>: Was formerly called <i>Fourth Son of the Third Daughter</i> and briefly <i>Rise of the Warden</i>. This will be my last fantasy romance for a while...I think. And I plan for it to be a young adult story, written from the third-person point of view, which I haven't done for years. I keep trying to write in first-person and then going back to fix it! LOL<div><br /></div><div><b>THE QUIET:</b> I've changed this title and cover a few times too. I think I was called <i>Refuge</i> once and then <i>By the River</i>. But now it is <i>The Quiet</i>. It's my story that fan fics the song: "Hazard" by Richard Marx.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>THE BOY'S GOT HART:</b> I've changed this cover and title so many times I can't even remember how often it's been something else. But for now, it's this and it will feature the Forbidden Men descendant, Ayden Hart, youngest daughter to Asher and Remy. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>DISTRACTION:</b> This cover has changed once, but the title has always been this. I was going to write it before <i>The Boy's Got Hart,</i> but now I'm thinking Ayden's story may come first. Or maybe it won't. This book will be about Trick Ryan, son of Eva and Pick from <i>Be My Hero</i>. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>THE THICKENING PLOT: </b>This is supposed to be book 2 in my Webster Sibling series, but I'm just not getting to it for some reason. It's supposed to be about Izzy, Wick's little sister. I refuse to take it off the to-write list though because someday I WILL write it. I hope!</div><div><br /></div><div><b>CREEPER:</b> Here's another story that's been on and off and back on the to-write list forever and I still haven't gotten to it. But I'm not taking it down either, so maybe... just maybe I'll actually get to it this year... or maybe not! Probably not. But possibly the year after that!</div><div><br /></div><div><b>MY ENEMY'S BOYFRIEND: </b>This is a slightly newest idea, but who knows when I'll actually get to writing it. I doubt it'll come out any time soon, honestly. </div><div><br /></div><div>And those are my plans going forward. I'm curious to see what actually gets finished!</div>Linda Kagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00259042112816376940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222710348417012363.post-85552866884419968482022-11-08T07:00:00.019-06:002022-11-08T07:00:00.172-06:00Release Day - NEVER GONNA HAPPEN<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVNMmH1WWpi3UgTMJIbrtHu_J0RfKIoHdxY_lOBgvNElvX_PSxUUbvkrJKPdwvGJqJOzAnwfdloQsSSJS3w5HaORlV3BndreWwDkRhicF6xjjj5Xv_8du4UuKtFAYwBzR72yeTKXoYGnjSw-fTxA440--aoND8AOcxHwDS92S77dCd9tsN6qyvaNMgwA/s3000/38-NeverGonnaHappen-frontcover%20(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="2000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVNMmH1WWpi3UgTMJIbrtHu_J0RfKIoHdxY_lOBgvNElvX_PSxUUbvkrJKPdwvGJqJOzAnwfdloQsSSJS3w5HaORlV3BndreWwDkRhicF6xjjj5Xv_8du4UuKtFAYwBzR72yeTKXoYGnjSw-fTxA440--aoND8AOcxHwDS92S77dCd9tsN6qyvaNMgwA/w266-h400/38-NeverGonnaHappen-frontcover%20(1).jpg" width="266" /></a></div>Happy release day to a story that I was kind of worried never would happen.<p></p><p><br /></p><p>But here it is!</p><p>Contemporary Young Adult Romance</p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>Never Gonna Happen</b></i></span></p><p>by Linda Kage</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.bookbub.com/books/never-gonna-happen-by-linda-kage">Goodreads</a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.bookbub.com/books/never-gonna-happen-by-linda-kage">BookBub</a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://buy.bookfunnel.com/az8jetekkj" target="_blank">Buy Links</a></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Excerpt:</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">Today was the day.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">I was finally going to secure a date to the school’s masquerade ball for Halloween, and I knew just the girl I was going to ask. Carmen Morales was the prettiest, smartest, loveliest, most amazing girl in the tenth grade, and she had broken up with her boyfriend of nine months the week before, meaning she was free to pursue.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">Sure, every available guy from the ninth to twelfth grade wanted a chance with her, but I was going to be the one to win her. And do you want to know how I knew that? Well, I’ll tell you.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">Because yesterday, I had subtly struck up a conversation with her. And when I’d learned her car was in the shop, I’d offered to be her chauffeur myself, and she had agreed. She’d agreed so eagerly, in fact, that I just knew she wanted me to ask her to the dance.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">And I couldn’t think of a better time to pop my big question than this morning on our special ride to school together.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">After pulling into the driveway of a brown-and-white Tudor-style home, I checked my face in the rearview mirror, dusted a fleck of dry toothpaste off the corner of my lip, then did a quick sniff check to my armpits. When I decided all was good in the aroma department, I popped a breath mint between my teeth for extra measure and glanced expectantly toward the front door of the house.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">“Come on, come on, come on,” I murmured under my breath, wondering what was taking so long.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">I was going to lose my nerve if someone didn’t get their tail in gear.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">Finally, after what felt like a century of waiting, the front door opened and a tall, slim girl exited, her honey-blond hair fluttering in the wind and whipping into her face, obstructing her view, along with the tail of a bright green, hand-knit scarf that was wrapped around her neck.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">As she hefted a backpack over one shoulder and then hugged a pile of books to her chest with her other arm, I shook my head, wondering why she didn’t just put her books into the bag.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">Because knowing her, she’d trip and—yep...</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">There she went, stumbling over her little brother’s bicycle that had been left abandoned and lying in the middle of the yard. Up flew her books, scattering all over the grass, and down she face-planted hard among them.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">I winced, sitting up a little straighter to make sure she was okay, but she sprang upright so quickly that I relaxed back behind the wheel and drummed my fingers against my thigh impatiently.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">She was fine.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">Then I sighed as she paused every few seconds from collecting her fallen books to see better, wasting more and more precious seconds with each useless sweep of the hand as she tried to tuck her hair behind her ear, then push the scarf out of the way, only for the wind to shove it all right back into her eyes again.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">News flash: it wasn’t going to stay put in this weather.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">Why hadn’t she just pulled the heaping mess up into a ponytail or tucked the scarf inside her magenta jacket on a day so windy?</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">Girls.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">Who understood them?</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">I tapped the horn, letting her know I wasn’t getting any younger over here. At this pace, school would be over before she even made it to my Jeep Cherokee.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">She cast me a nasty glare before yanking up her last book and surging to her feet. A huge, wet grass stain coated one knee on her blue jeans.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">I heaved out another sigh.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">Hopeless. She was so completely hopeless.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">The door to the front passenger side jerked open, and the wind nearly ripped it from her grasp. But she held on so firmly it only wrenched her a couple of steps back.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">I sighed, the third sigh within thirty seconds because, seriously, no one could be more pitiful than her.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">Finally, straightening herself, she began to climb inside, muttering, “I’m fine. Thanks so much for your concern.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">Yeah, I could tell she was fine. Didn’t care.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">Hooking my thumb over my shoulder, I shook my head and said, “Nuh-uh. Back seat today.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">She froze, turning wide eyes my way with her backside only inches from landing on the seat next to mine. Mouth opening wide, she shrieked, “Are you freaking kidding me?”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">“Totally freaking serious,” I deadpanned.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">“Unbelievable.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">A sneer followed. Then she rolled her eyes and climbed back out of the front seat before slamming the door too hard, but thankfully not breaking the glass in the window. A second later, the back door opened and she lumbered in, grumbling under her breath before she fell heavily into the seat, making the entire Jeep rock.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">I’m pretty sure I didn’t want to know what she was saying about me, but again…didn’t care. If I was going to be forced to drive her to school and back home every single day, then—</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">Wait, what?</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">Oh, you thought this girl was Carmen Morales? The heap of a mess riding in the back seat of my SUV?</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">Um…no.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">That would be a big no. A gigantic no.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">A not-even-close no.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">Actually, I’d say I was kind of offended you’d even think I would ever treat the prettiest, smartest, loveliest, most amazing girl in the tenth grade, Carmen “the Queen Bee” Morales, so rudely.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">Really.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">No, this unwanted tagalong tragedy was just Peyton.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">Yeah, I should probably explain. But don’t worry, I always had to explain Peyton, so I was used to it.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">The thing was: Peyton’s mom and my mom were best friends.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">You’d think that should cover the gist of it. But, no… Oh, no.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">Again, not even close.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">You see, Mom and Aunt Donna (as I’d always called Peyton’s mother) were not simply best friends; I’m saying they were the-same-person-inhabiting-two-different-bodies kind of bosom buddies. They grew up next door to each other, sat out of gym class together when one was sick, were arrested for keying some jerk’s car together when they were teens, then they went to college and lived in the same dorm room. There, they met their respective husbands (Peyton’s and my dad) on the same night and got married within a year of each other, only to find houses on the same block, set up a business together, and get pregnant with their first babies three months apart. Those first babies being, yeah, me and Peyton.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">They even coordinated our names to go together. At first, they decided Peyton would take my last name for her first name, and I’d take her last name as my first, so we’d be Royce Kinsey and Kinsey Royce. But then, our mothers realized that wouldn’t work because they had already planned before we were even born that we’d get married someday. At which point, it’d sound really strange for Peyton to go from Kinsey Royce to taking my surname and becoming Kinsey Kinsey.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">Yes, our moms had thought it through that far. I’m not even kidding.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">So they used each other’s maiden names instead, dubbing us York Kinsey and Peyton Royce.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">And the girl had been forced on me ever since, from the moment she was born.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">You think I exaggerate? Hmph. I wish.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">Let’s elaborate.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">We shared a crib for naptime, took our first steps together (but only because Peyton was a little overachiever who just had to start walking at her nine months to my twelve), took baths together when we were toddlers, we had our “first day of school” pictures taken together, along with every stupid year after that, went trick-or-treating together, took swimming lessons together. Vacations. Yearly doctor’s check-ups. Dentist appointments. We even got braces in middle school together.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">Honestly, there wasn’t a single memory from my childhood where Peyton wasn’t right there beside me, experiencing it too.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">It was always let Peyton play with you, give Peyton half your candy, don’t let Peyton sit alone at lunch, drive Peyton to school, be nice to Peyton.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">Peyton, Peyton, Peyton.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">We were treated like twins, yet always expected to fall in love one day and get married. The only problem with that was I didn’t love Peyton. And I’m fairly certain she didn’t even like me in return.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">We were complete opposites, except no, we were even further apart than that. We couldn’t be compared to night and day because those were still measurements of time, connecting them. And there was absolutely no connection between Peyton and me. We were more like night and…banana. We had absolutely nothing in common, except that our mothers were two of the most irritatingly pushy, intrusive people on the planet.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">Don’t get me wrong. I adored our moms—swear to God—but they had to let this stupid notion go because one thing had become abundantly clear to me over the years. I would never marry Peyton Royce. I think it was my one goal in life, actually.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">So... Sorry, Mom and Aunt Donna, but you two just weren’t going to get your way on this.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">Someday, they’d be forced to stop grinning like they knew something we didn’t, and they’d quit spouting, never say never, to us because I just did.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">Gauntlet dropped.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4e4e4f; font-family: helvetica;">Peyton and I? It was never gonna happen.</p>Linda Kagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00259042112816376940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222710348417012363.post-76553050324430366912022-06-10T06:00:00.003-05:002022-06-10T06:00:00.203-05:00Love Mark Fantasy Romance Finale<p><i>Guess what!</i></p><p><br /></p><p>TODAY is the 330th-year anniversary of the first hanging in the Salem Witch Trials. </p><p><br /></p><p>Does anyone know why that's a big deal to me?</p><p><br /></p><p>Well, I'll tell you.</p><p><br /></p><p>You see...once upon a time, I started writing this really eclectic book series that had dragons and castles and unicorns and sword fights...and <i>toilet paper</i>?</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, this fantasy world I created just so happened to spring from the Salem Witch Trials.</p><p><br /></p><p>Makes total sense, right? </p><p><br /></p><p>No, I didn't think it would. </p><p><br /></p><p>Okay, I'll start over!</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9fN1aM04qwYMIsaohJWa1-q34YNIrqtEi7c5X4Tzu8AnYY5sOoroVmWzmc_e-knIzu1BkS4lBuAuCdKOCrDUGmOZjH9yjAKVr1x4HN1PaN70FZvBYABmja6h2wm0waMAvqAata6AuQyzw6Ty734qiWdErLyRdBYL5j5YtgDrts7JKaY1w4MsODC2E0A/s261/memorial.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="261" data-original-width="242" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9fN1aM04qwYMIsaohJWa1-q34YNIrqtEi7c5X4Tzu8AnYY5sOoroVmWzmc_e-knIzu1BkS4lBuAuCdKOCrDUGmOZjH9yjAKVr1x4HN1PaN70FZvBYABmja6h2wm0waMAvqAata6AuQyzw6Ty734qiWdErLyRdBYL5j5YtgDrts7JKaY1w4MsODC2E0A/s1600/memorial.png" width="242" /></a>Closer to 450 years ago, then... There was this war over in the Ottoman Empire area (which really happened in true life), and God sent down these angels to help fight in it (yeah, now we're getting to the fictional part I made up). So one of those angels fell in love with a human woman, and they had a little Nephilim baby together. </p><p><br /></p><p>And that baby went on to become Bridget Bishop, who...</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes! Ding, ding, ding! In real life, she was the first person hanged in the Salem Witch Trials, exactly 330 years ago today. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGLZiZDADRWCoqBk9dW0TxPZih2MLpb2QWmWjQveLsFe32XW1D2dqrtTi00wKRUSk6D3M0MdDhdKmvvbOgQAZl-rv2fJMMOpFr94gX7g3i_bQ50b9H0xE39iJDqyIcOypNYJcT0p5FEYPYHvEsiIlq6eUm8i1TrUwOSSq_siwa81JAZc-ydHl___q0mw/s2627/IMG_8295.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2627" data-original-width="2000" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGLZiZDADRWCoqBk9dW0TxPZih2MLpb2QWmWjQveLsFe32XW1D2dqrtTi00wKRUSk6D3M0MdDhdKmvvbOgQAZl-rv2fJMMOpFr94gX7g3i_bQ50b9H0xE39iJDqyIcOypNYJcT0p5FEYPYHvEsiIlq6eUm8i1TrUwOSSq_siwa81JAZc-ydHl___q0mw/w153-h200/IMG_8295.JPG" width="153" /></a></div></div><p>But instead of dying, my fictional version of Bridget (the Nephilim version I made up) floated out among the stars. She grabbed onto an astroid and started spinning and spinning until she turned the rock into her very own world.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, we may all call this dwarf planet Ceres in real life, but in my book series, it is...The Outer Realms.</p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgFsePTue9O34ovvtbi6f5phPsjFMU3hnlxM5NDEUutchVoi2qUUCqLSlvW90ugDhkLGG2GALZvKUus_nvwW770yFFdp78NboUj0osqojM_yROfPTfySj0F8mIdE_4epOWdbA67BPAmyiBQsN_5-3SB9LUxTQwH_q5n6D9wdgcmIEF9MJPeKmOUbks0A/s640/640px-Ceres_solarsystem.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="302" data-original-width="640" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgFsePTue9O34ovvtbi6f5phPsjFMU3hnlxM5NDEUutchVoi2qUUCqLSlvW90ugDhkLGG2GALZvKUus_nvwW770yFFdp78NboUj0osqojM_yROfPTfySj0F8mIdE_4epOWdbA67BPAmyiBQsN_5-3SB9LUxTQwH_q5n6D9wdgcmIEF9MJPeKmOUbks0A/s320/640px-Ceres_solarsystem.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>And throughout the first four stories of my Love Mark series, we've slowly learned that a curse has been threatening my made-up world. </p><p></p><p><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>I know! How dare it...</b></span></i></p><p>At the end of the last book, we left off, knowing that this nasty little curse was going to destroy the Outer Realms completely by the end of its 330th year unless someone saved it. </p><p><br /></p><p>Well, that 330th year is here, my friends. To the very day. So I guess it's only fitting that I release the last book already so you all can find out what happened.</p><p><br /></p><p>Long story short... </p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg21-X651dOtHRETRp8rVYiyJrl_DJRjdabj8wNJJexuBfC_malCqWPqF74lN3ndYPtFKo2vST2YGf2GDrRfWg9khhfKvaGQi1dgoXRlSz5CX0rjxH7quMJQkrHpKa2_W4QhD5vnaPxOk6beZuzn4BBmDOpDNf_PoEjBgGjJVHeHuQi1OLcfcl-XPdzYw/s3000/allmylove_frontcover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="2000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg21-X651dOtHRETRp8rVYiyJrl_DJRjdabj8wNJJexuBfC_malCqWPqF74lN3ndYPtFKo2vST2YGf2GDrRfWg9khhfKvaGQi1dgoXRlSz5CX0rjxH7quMJQkrHpKa2_W4QhD5vnaPxOk6beZuzn4BBmDOpDNf_PoEjBgGjJVHeHuQi1OLcfcl-XPdzYw/s320/allmylove_frontcover.jpg" width="213" /></a></div>Happy release day to <i><b>ALL MY LOVE</b></i>, <br /><p></p><p>the fifth and final book in the Love Mark Fantasy Romance series! </p><p><br /></p><p>It is time.</p><p><br /></p><p>And don't worry, if you want to start from the beginning with book one and catch up, that's cool. The Complete Love Mark Box Set is also available today.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you to those of you who have gone on this crazy, epic journey with me through the Outer Realms and all its mishmashed oddities. It's been quite an adventure. And I'm honored to get to share it with you.</p><p><br /></p><p>Happy reading! </p><p>Linda </p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="https://buy.bookfunnel.com/83d3b2ooq4" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #0c343d; color: white;">BUY NOW</span></a> | <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61237400-all-my-love">GOODREADS</a> | <a href="https://www.bookbub.com/books/all-my-love-love-mark-fantasy-book-5-by-linda-kage" target="_blank">BOOKBUB</a> | <a href="https://books2read.com/u/bQPGYE" style="background-color: #073763;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">BOX SET</span></a></span></p><p><br /></p><p><b>WHAT THE STORY IS ABOUT</b></p><p>Dori Baquet never thought her life was all that remarkable. A single waitress living in New Orleans, she was just trying to make it through the pandemic in one piece until one little brick to the head unexpectedly sucked her into an alternate dimension.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, she’s navigating an unfamiliar, medieval-type world called the Outer Realms, where there’s no chocolate…or books, and everyone lives in castles and rides horses while carrying around their own personal sword. If that weren’t strange enough, she learns she’s actually a descendant of the oldest, most cursed family here. Plus, she has magical abilities. But the craziness doesn’t end there.</p><p><br /></p><p>She only got one of their love mark tattoo thingies to fit in with the locals and avoid being burned at the stake or some such atrocity. Except the very day she realizes how to get back home, her freaking love mark alerts her to the presence of her soul mate nearby. And Dori can’t seem to resist her insatiable need to see what this dude’s like.</p><p><br /></p><p>Meeting the King of Lowden, however, changes everything, and Dori soon learns her adventures in this oddball world are just beginning.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipD8bPxN0kXTNyLtB9y_nHayPuiJRPusuSfof_3vTeQFYt8gb-aKADPscEO9nFvvrZNZYXRxLD-nBzDt9k4U77kWuj9iRiT0D9Gbajb-7WiDXidZSWO4g2YtBOi9pEqq7nkW45jFoHOEOLXBmupAlgavWZ6zPt8vcEMT4Hy6kJ9O8z3XdLST104KAvbQ/s3000/lovemarkseries.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="3000" height="134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipD8bPxN0kXTNyLtB9y_nHayPuiJRPusuSfof_3vTeQFYt8gb-aKADPscEO9nFvvrZNZYXRxLD-nBzDt9k4U77kWuj9iRiT0D9Gbajb-7WiDXidZSWO4g2YtBOi9pEqq7nkW45jFoHOEOLXBmupAlgavWZ6zPt8vcEMT4Hy6kJ9O8z3XdLST104KAvbQ/w400-h134/lovemarkseries.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p>Linda Kagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00259042112816376940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222710348417012363.post-56746585784873023292021-01-28T05:00:00.005-06:002021-01-28T05:00:05.375-06:00Secrets That We Keep - Now Available<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZeUIpo1KMaRItqd4K59rl33YN8rcGTO5g4Fjwf_FfiHQJ8vayPx-Bh31qoGNgBnCVa6suFCoZedZ3-vwT3hQCEteDF4uRRkw-bsjKBcfvoDT53YKeSzxFxcq8OBb-avzgWdOi1dBCyFK1/s1250/33-bannerstwk02.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="463" data-original-width="1250" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZeUIpo1KMaRItqd4K59rl33YN8rcGTO5g4Fjwf_FfiHQJ8vayPx-Bh31qoGNgBnCVa6suFCoZedZ3-vwT3hQCEteDF4uRRkw-bsjKBcfvoDT53YKeSzxFxcq8OBb-avzgWdOi1dBCyFK1/w640-h238/33-bannerstwk02.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span face="Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-size: 14.4px;"><i>Reese and Mason from PRICE OF A KISS had twins, but they've been keeping secrets.</i></span></p><p><b style="color: #212529; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px;">BLURB:</b></p><p><span face="Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-size: 14.4px;">Gracen Lowe has a new life theory:</span></p><p><span face="Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-size: 14.4px;">What you don’t know can’t hurt you.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px;" /><span face="Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-size: 14.4px;">Which is exactly why he decides not to tell his twin sister, Bella, that he’s accidentally falling for the woman she hates most, the very woman who allegedly cheated with Bella’s last boyfriend and broke them apart.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px;" /><span face="Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-size: 14.4px;">Bella might be his best friend and ultimate confidante, but she’d legit cut off his favorite body part if she knew which woman he’d been craving. So even if his theory’s totally whack, staying quiet will definitely keep him safer.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px;" /><span face="Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-size: 14.4px;">Except he feels so guilty about it all.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px;" /><span face="Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-size: 14.4px;">Meanwhile, Bella’s heating up the sheets with one of Gracen’s best friends, and she can’t seem to reveal that little detail to her brother either, due to—you know—reasons.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px;" /><span face="Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-size: 14.4px;">When the truth is exposed, all bets are off. 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Well, where were you tonight?”</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“I didn’t feel like—” </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“Bullahit!”</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“Oh my God. Will you stop interrupting me.”</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“Sure. When you stop avoiding me.”</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“I’m not—” This time, she cut herself off to glance skyward for assistance as she mumbled curses about me. Once she was calmer, she looked me in the eye. “I’m not avoiding you. The reason I didn’t go tonight had nothing to do with you whatsoever.”</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I stepped closer to her, my eyes flaring. “Oh yeah? Prove it.”</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">She gulped unsteadily—totally freaked out by my proximity—and then she jerked a step back.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I think that broke something inside me. She should never be too scared of getting close to me. It felt like the beginning of the end. I was going to lose her.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">But once she had her space, she shot fire at me with her eyes, totally not intimidated at all. “Prove what?” she cried with a disbelieving snort. “That I didn’t go tonight because of—”</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“Prove that you aren’t avoiding me,” I clarified.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">She gurgled out an incredulous laugh. “How the hell does someone prove something like that?”</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I shrugged. “Not my problem. Just get it done. Right now.”</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Her eyes widened. “Right—”</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“Now. Yes.”</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“Right now?” she repeated, blinking at me as if I’d lost my mind.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I put my hand to my ear. “Is there an echo in here?” Then I glanced at the face of my watch. “Time’s ticking, baby doll.”</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“Oh my God,” she exploded. She gave another dubious laugh. I couldn’t tell if she was getting a kick out of my stubbornness or if she was seriously annoyed by it. “You are such a pain in the ass.”</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“Yeah,” I countered. “A pain in the ass that you’re avoiding.”</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Her eyes narrowed. “This is getting ridiculous.” Darting her gaze around the room, probably looking for something heavy to hit me with, she groused, “I can’t believe you’re really making me do this.”</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I yawned and reported, “Not convinced yet.”</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">“Oh, that’s it,” she snarled, fed up with my antics. Stepping close, she grabbed the front of my shirt. “You want to be convinced that I liked being with you, fine! I’ll convince you.”</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I opened my mouth to tell her, no, I hadn’t mentioned anything about needing performance feedback. I just didn’t want her to hate me now. But she pulled me into her before I could say anything, and she plastered her mouth to mine.</div></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span face="Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-size: 14.4px;"><br /></span></p><p><span face="Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-size: 14.4px;"><br /></span></p>
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<script src="https://widget-prime.rafflecopter.com/launch.js"></script>Linda Kagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00259042112816376940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222710348417012363.post-67239527470665925812020-11-10T08:00:00.001-06:002020-11-10T08:00:03.187-06:00Writing Updates : Looking Back and Looking Forward<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-size: 10.5pt; text-indent: 0in;">So in November
of 2018, I gave myself a goal of the next seven books I wanted to work on, plus
the order I thought I might write them.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHncL3f4x3sQoE_nNgeAheQLHZHemZZSgZchF0vltnGs3ynZ8OTiDWw-Ust1xVfhKd31Qsjar9579UZq7Ce65bygfP-zRC9OxG6W89fEOkyD6_tcFTI1Kj54U_F32iYMq8BQOLxuwREfx2/s1480/2019quue.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="381" data-original-width="1480" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHncL3f4x3sQoE_nNgeAheQLHZHemZZSgZchF0vltnGs3ynZ8OTiDWw-Ust1xVfhKd31Qsjar9579UZq7Ce65bygfP-zRC9OxG6W89fEOkyD6_tcFTI1Kj54U_F32iYMq8BQOLxuwREfx2/w640-h165/2019quue.png" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Two years
later, I'm kind of surprised I actually got four of them finished (I honestly
wasn't sure if I'd get even that much done)! But the order in which they came
out was all different than I thought they’d be. And that tells me the order I'm
going to continue writing them has changed too!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-size: 10.5pt; text-indent: 0in;">Because in
working on <i>The Revenge Plan</i>, I came up with an idea for a spin-off series for
the Webster siblings as well as another Forbidden Men Descendants book, which
inspired yet another one after that. And those three ideas (<i>The Thickening
Plot</i>, <i>Secrets That We Keep</i>, and <i>Insta-Family</i>) pushed <i>Creeper</i> and <i>Never Gonna
Happen</i> significantly further down the queue (yet I still want to work on those
someday too, don’t worry!).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-size: 10.5pt; text-indent: 0in;">Then, the Love
Mark series started to really roll, and they elbowed the last Fairytale book
out of THEIR way and they all crowded to the front of the line (I must have
some really pushy books, I guess). </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-size: 10.5pt; text-indent: 0in;">Except I'm hoping to finish the Fairytale
series sooner rather than later, so I'm trying to keep <i>Black Crimson</i> high on
the list, even though I have a feeling others will cut in front of it again,
especially since another fantasy story (I guess we'll call it fantasy since
it's definitely not realistic) titled <i>Fourth Son of the Third Daughter</i> has
really been stealing my attention.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-size: 10.5pt; text-indent: 0in;">But anyway…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-size: 10.5pt; text-indent: 0in;">Here is what
my writing goals queue looks like as of right now for 2021 and beyond.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5O2xWR4qVl6eAyoL6hDQ25QMNBovU2vXi1yNLhZL2R0dXspGurQ2ZHXal1Sc9g050ywqqSQNspGwN7o4FF7tPNAP7zdSMH88CVjzLRdW3ebqiFm6wY_ThtDkN4bNWdanqLthFvOO6ZWaV/s1480/2021quue.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="381" data-original-width="1480" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5O2xWR4qVl6eAyoL6hDQ25QMNBovU2vXi1yNLhZL2R0dXspGurQ2ZHXal1Sc9g050ywqqSQNspGwN7o4FF7tPNAP7zdSMH88CVjzLRdW3ebqiFm6wY_ThtDkN4bNWdanqLthFvOO6ZWaV/w640-h164/2021quue.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-size: 10.5pt; text-indent: 0in;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-size: 10.5pt; text-indent: 0in;">-WAIT FOR LOVE
- Book 4 of the Love Mark series, featuring Olivander.</span></p>
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A standalone Forbidden Men descendants novel, featuring Lucy Olivia Gamble
(Aspen and Noel's daughter).</span></p>
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- Final Book 4 in the Fairytale Quartet, featuring Brick and Camille.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-size: 10.5pt; text-indent: 0in;">-ALL MY LOVE -
Final Book 5 in the Love Mark series, featuring Dori.</span></p>
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THE THIRD DAUGHTER - Spin-off story from the Love Mark series, featuring Xyla
and Zayden.</span></p>
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PLOT - Book 2 of the Webster Sibling series, featuring Izzy.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-size: 10.5pt; text-indent: 0in;">-WHAT THE HEART
WANTS - A standalone NA Forbidden Men descendants novel, featuring Ayden Hart
(Asher and Remy's youngest daughter).</span></p>
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finished the rough draft for <i>Secrets That We Keep</i>, so that's why it's not on my
"2021 goals" list; it's already past "work in progress" and
going into "editing" stage at the moment, and it should be here
before February. But more about that coming soon.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-size: 10.5pt; text-indent: 0in;">I also have an
alphabet challenge going with myself. I want to write enough main-character
heroes and heroines whose first letter of their first names cover the entire
alphabet. So I still need full-length stories written with heroines names that
start with D, X, and U. Then I need books with heroes whose names start with O,
T, V, X, and Z (I was never sure if Oren/Ten should go under T or O, so I
decided to just have two more heroes with O and T beginning letters to be sure
I covered them sufficiently. But seriously, would you put Ten under T or O?).
And that's another reason I kind of want to write these stories I have in this
queue next into 2021 and beyond. I will fulfill my alphabet challenge if I get
all seven of these written!</span></p>
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see pictures of the heroes and heroines in my alphabet challenge (upcoming and
already-released), I'd love to share them with you: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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pictures for the main characters in my novellas and mini stories too because I
didn't want them to feel left out, even though I'm not technically counting
them in my challenge (sorry, guys). But yeah, I had fun coming up with images
for all of them! That was kind of a challenge all on its own!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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want to see where I'm at with any specific work in progress or you want more
details about any of the books I am hoping to write, feel free to visit the
<a href="https://lindakage.com/wip.html" target="_blank"><b>NEXT </b></a>page on my website.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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And take care out there.</span></p>
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Linda.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Linda Kagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00259042112816376940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222710348417012363.post-24420935123562985632020-06-05T12:18:00.001-05:002021-01-27T10:07:22.296-06:00AwarenessHere are some eye-opening and really helpful materials that I watched and read that helped me understand and see more clearly what I can personally do to be anti-racist. I hope they help you become a little more aware too. Thanks.<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2404667739755980" target="_blank">Systemic Racism Explained </a></h3>
(4 minute Facebook video)<br />
*This one was a probably the most eye-opening to me. I learned things I didn't know before, anyway!*<br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2404667739755980" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2404667739755980 </a><br />
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<a href="https://youtu.be/sjhz594Am6g" target="_blank">For White People Who Are Asking What They Can Do </a></h3>
(5 minute YouTube Video)<br />
*I found this to be poignant, helpful--and heartbreaking--as well.*<br />
<a href="https://youtu.be/sjhz594Am6g" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/sjhz594Am6g </a><br />
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<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/parenting/kids-books-racism-protest.html" target="_blank">These Books Can Help You Explain Racism and Protest to Your Kids </a></h3>
(Online article with a list of children books at the end that you can purchase)<br />
*I'm always all about finding a good list of book recommendations!* <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/parenting/kids-books-racism-protest.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/parenting/kids-books-racism-protest.html </a><br />
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<a href="https://www.healthychildren.org/English/healthy-living/emotional-wellness/Building-Resilience/Pages/Talking-to-Children-About-Racial-Bias.aspx" target="_blank">Talking to Children About Racial Bias </a></h3>
(Helpful and not-too-long online article)<br />
*I've actually tried a few of these tips; the ten-year-old was kind of like duh-mom, but the four-year-old had fun going through her dolls with me to see how different they all looked--from skin tone to hair and sizes and shapes*<br />
<a href="https://www.healthychildren.org/English/healthy-living/emotional-wellness/Building-Resilience/Pages/Talking-to-Children-About-Racial-Bias.aspx" target="_blank">https://www.healthychildren.org/English/healthy-living/emotional-wellness/Building-Resilience/Pages/Talking-to-Children-About-Racial-Bias.aspx</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgvjnxr6OCE" target="_blank">Micro-Agression : How unintentional but insidious bias can be the most harmful </a></h3>
(8 minute YouTube video)<br />
*Not as entertaining as the others to watch, but it can still get you thinking*<br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgvjnxr6OCE" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgvjnxr6OCE </a><br />
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<a href="https://bookshop.org/shop/baratunde" target="_blank">Books You Could Read About Racism </a></h3>
(Various Book Lists. Found on Instagram)<br />
*I usually just read romance--or children's books--so honestly I've only skimmed through a couple of these, but for the non-fiction enthusiasts out there, maybe this is a helpful list for you*<br />
Reposted from @baratunde Thanks to @bookshop_org, I have a bookshop! “Baratunde’s World-Saving Bookshop”<br />
<a href="https://bookshop.org/shop/baratunde" target="_blank">https://bookshop.org/shop/baratunde</a><br />
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<a href="https://medium.com/@BarackObama/how-to-make-this-moment-the-turning-point-for-real-change-9fa209806067" target="_blank">How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change </a></h3>
(Online article written by Barack Obama. 4-minute read)<br />
*Even though I'm not big on political stuff--like at all--I really liked what he had to say here*<br />
<a href="https://medium.com/@BarackObama/how-to-make-this-moment-the-turning-point-for-real-change-9fa209806067" target="_blank">https://medium.com/@BarackObama/how-to-make-this-moment-the-turning-point-for-real-change-9fa209806067 </a><br />
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<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/arnold-schwarzenegger-america-needs-do-better/612442/" target="_blank">The America I Love Needs To Do Better </a></h3>
(Online article written by Arnold Schwarzenegger)<br />
*I just saw a quote I loved (I know, I know: I'm obsessed with quotes!!) that said, "Shaming someone into action creates acting. Inspiring someone into action creates change." And this was a good inspirational piece that made me want to be better!*<br />
<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/arnold-schwarzenegger-america-needs-do-better/612442/" target="_blank">https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/arnold-schwarzenegger-america-needs-do-better/612442/ </a><br />
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<a href="https://www.benjerry.com/home/whats-new/2017/08/ending-systemic-racism" target="_blank">Ending Systemic Racism Benefits Everyone </a></h3>
(Online article)<br />
*I like having a clear game plan when solving a problem, maybe even a list of major bullet points to hit along the way of reaching that plan. And this article lists out some good specific goals to hit in order to end systemic racism on a whole, bigger level.*<br />
<a href="https://www.benjerry.com/home/whats-new/2017/08/ending-systemic-racism" target="_blank">https://www.benjerry.com/home/whats-new/2017/08/ending-systemic-racism </a><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pg/thehodgetwins/videos/" target="_blank">The Hodgetwins Facebook Page </a></h3>
(Facebook pages full of videos to watch)<br />
*Because I'm a libra and thus obsessed with symmetry, it's very important for me to look at all sides of a matter and give both opposing viewpoints due consideration. And since it was starting to feel wrong that I was focusing on one side alone, I thought I should also add awareness about people who don't agree with anything posted above. These videos shared by the Hodge twins also make some good points to think about.*<br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pg/thehodgetwins/videos/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/pg/thehodgetwins/videos/ </a><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/joshua.feuerstein.5/videos/2555627034656401/?v=2555627034656401" target="_blank">White Privilege Debate</a> </h3>
(Facebook Video)<br />
*Just one more video showing a viewpoint that opposes systemic racism because we need to see the whole picture.*<br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/joshua.feuerstein.5/videos/2555627034656401/?v=2555627034656401" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/joshua.feuerstein.5/videos/2555627034656401/?v=2555627034656401</a><br />
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<a href="https://youtu.be/b2SyweeIlYY" target="_blank">Real Life with Jack Hibbs - Happening Now - Pt 21</a></h3>
(Almost 2 hour YouTube video)<br />
*Here's a religious take on what's happening in the world now with the social issues in the world now.*<br />
<a href="https://youtu.be/b2SyweeIlYY" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/b2SyweeIlYY</a><div><br /></div><div><div><br /></div><div><h3><a href="https://youtu.be/wR2lK36Tc4M" target="_blank">Interview with Larry Elder on Candace Owens Show</a></h3>(Almost 1 hour YouTube video)<br /><a href="https://youtu.be/wR2lK36Tc4M" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/wR2lK36Tc4M</a></div><div><br /></div><div><h3><a href="https://youtu.be/IFqVNPwsLNo" target="_blank">Interview with Larry Elder on The Rubin Report</a></h3>(1 hour YouTube video)<br />*Here's a religious take on what's happening in the world now with the social issues in the world now.*<br /><a href="https://youtu.be/IFqVNPwsLNo" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/IFqVNPwsLNo</a></div><div><br /></div>
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<i>Trust in Love </i>is out today!!!<br />
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It is Book 2 in the Love Mark series, following <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CGNCFBW/" target="_blank">One True Love</a> which is free today!!<br />
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I never mentioned the release of <b>B&E Ever After</b> on this blog! So, here it is, just six months late.<br />
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This is a HANSEL & GRETEL romance.<br />
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I know, I know. Hansel & Gretel is not a romance unless you make it really gross and incestual. But I'm super proud of myself in managing to make it both a happily ever after romance with no sibling love matches at all. Go me!<br />
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One of my favorite parts of the story is the banter that goes on between Hayden and Gabby. That was fun to make.<br />
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And I already shared this with people on Facebook, but I gotta show you some of the google searches I did while writing this book.<br />
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Separately, they're probably not so remarkable. But when you put them together, I think they're hilarious. Makes even me want to scratch my head and say, "What the heck is this story about, anyway?"<br />
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So, here are those:<br />
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<li>How does the Hansel and Gretel story go?</li>
<li>How much $ do loggers make?</li>
<li>Is faking your own death illegal?</li>
<li>What country is Monte Carlo in?</li>
<li>What are the best highlights of Monte Carlo?</li>
<li>Best hotels in Monte Carlo?</li>
<li>Do they sell Skittles in Monte Carlo?</li>
<li>What are the most popular terms of endearment in Spanish?</li>
<li>Is cocaine chunky?</li>
<li>What shoe fashions are currently popular?</li>
<li>What are the names of some white-collar crimes?</li>
<li>Is there really a diamond-coated car?</li>
<li>How do you clean wine from a carpet?</li>
<li>How much does it cost to repair an elevator?</li>
<li>Where is the most popular place to take a honeymoon?</li>
<li>What do you call a person with one leg?</li>
<li>In which episode of YOU does Beck find Joe's kill box?</li>
<li>What type of cell phone was the most popular twenty years ago?</li>
<li>Tell me more about Le Metropole shopping center.</li>
<li>What brand of male shoe is the nicest?</li>
<li>What's another word for a building's manager?</li>
<li>What are those things people with diabetes hook up to them 24 hours a day?</li>
<li>How do you take care of an insulin pump?</li>
<li>What does a naturalization certificate look like?</li>
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In other writing news, I will have TRUST IN LOVE available in two months on <b>Ma</b>y <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(the)</span></i> <b>4th</b> <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(be with you!)</span></i>. And I'm working on SECRETS THAT WE KEEP, but haven't gotten too far with that yet; I keep coming up with more stories to go with it...so now I have ideas for about four more stories for that universe!<br />
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Anyway, hope you enjoy B&E EVER AFTER! Or did enjoy it.<br />
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<br />Linda Kagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00259042112816376940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222710348417012363.post-61088461919652722552019-04-30T11:00:00.000-05:002019-04-30T11:00:09.698-05:00The Revenge Plan by Linda Kage<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Contemporary New Adult</span><br /><em><span style="color: grey;">(The heroine in this story is the daughter to the main characters in PRICELESS)</span></em><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: 700;">Available Now!</span><br /><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07RBS627H" target="_blank"><img height="40" src="https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgallery.mailchimp.com%2F73c8b2db81e3b56a568634cc0%2Fimages%2Fc8c43f92-0f31-4e85-bade-e9cecebc5687.png&t=1556638977&ymreqid=5ba77413-a680-5b51-0108-900017010000&sig=8Jmw4zPlDB9BUheA8SmlrQ--~C" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 40px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 40px;" width="40" /></a> <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/936743" target="_blank"><img height="40" src="https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgallery.mailchimp.com%2F73c8b2db81e3b56a568634cc0%2Fimages%2F6ae09a82-867d-4861-8b2d-3f8fefc33dff.jpg&t=1556638977&ymreqid=5ba77413-a680-5b51-0108-900017010000&sig=Wt0PWi7lVOyRSf8pbi8clw--~C" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 40px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 40px;" width="40" /></a><span id="goog_1795689564"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a><span id="goog_1795689565"></span> <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/id1461999887" target="_blank"><img height="40" src="https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgallery.mailchimp.com%2F73c8b2db81e3b56a568634cc0%2Fimages%2F9059ea25-c4c1-4ac1-a043-e0760fbb1696.jpg&t=1556638977&ymreqid=5ba77413-a680-5b51-0108-900017010000&sig=nAkGamFTTm4LmvbidP_soA--~C" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 40px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 40px;" width="40" /></a><span id="goog_1795689573"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a><span id="goog_1795689574"></span> <a href="https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-revenge-plan" target="_blank"><img height="40" src="https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgallery.mailchimp.com%2F73c8b2db81e3b56a568634cc0%2Fimages%2F2533e362-d457-4663-8c02-7603080c7afd.jpg&t=1556638977&ymreqid=5ba77413-a680-5b51-0108-900017010000&sig=mE0kcvAlZhvCeeVTh1fldQ--~C" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 40px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 40px;" width="40" /></a> <a href="https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Linda_Kage_The_Revenge_Plan?id=ydmVDwAAQBAJ" target="_blank"><img height="42" src="https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgallery.mailchimp.com%2F73c8b2db81e3b56a568634cc0%2Fimages%2F79143488-beb7-4e0e-8204-41df871d9d51.jpg&t=1556638977&ymreqid=5ba77413-a680-5b51-0108-900017010000&sig=cs3Q6Qo870Fo8_F2tOCeiA--~C" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 42px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 40px;" width="40" /></a><br /><br />Haven's just been given the opportunity of a lifetime to pay her ex back by hooking up with his nemesis. The question is...will she take it?</div>
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Linda Kagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00259042112816376940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222710348417012363.post-86402784588167750402019-01-15T08:34:00.000-06:002019-01-15T08:34:01.666-06:00Looking ForwardI'm so happy January is followed by December! Because December is kind of that time where you look back and reflect, right, and evaluate how things have gone? Well, that was just plain scary for me. All I saw were my failures, losses, and rejections. Which led to depression, curling up inside myself, shutting the world out, and just plain wanting to die.<br />
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But now it's January! Er, well, halfway through (took me a bit to get over December). Time to look forward, shake off all my mistakes and goof-ups and try, try again. And I just read a nice, inspiring quote to help with that. It said, "A <b>dream </b>written down with a date becomes a goal. A <b>goal </b>broken down into <b>steps </b>becomes a plan. A <b>plan </b>backed by <b>action </b>becomes <b>reality</b>."<br />
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So, I'm writing down my dream and setting a date to it. I want to write eight books within the next three years.<br />
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EEK, my dream just turned into a goal!!!<br />
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This will be a challenge for me because my day job became significantly more involved this year, plus I'd like to work on getting a masters degree in library science sometime within the next three years, as well, <i>and </i>my kids are getting more involved in activities. <i>And </i>from past goals I've set like this before, I usually only finish twenty to fifty percent of the books I want to write. So I definitely have my work cut out for me to actually make my dream come true.<br />
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The first step I am going to take in my plan is to significantly drop social media involvement in order to make a bit of available time to actually write, meaning this might be the last you'll hear from me for a while.<br />
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Then again, I fail a lot, so who knows if that will actually be true! LOL. If it does turn out to be true, however, I hope you've made sure to sign up for my "new release notifications" emails, <i><b>IF</b></i> you know, you're the type who likes to read my stories. That way, you won't miss any of my new releases, for sure. You can sign up here if you like: <a class="yiv0729059737" href="http://eepurl.com/dvNGVz" id="yiv0729059737yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1546963594002_2668" rel="nofollow" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #196ad4; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">http://eepurl.com/dvNGVz</a><br />
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And with that, I wish you all the luck in the world with turning your <i>own </i>dreams into reality! I know you can do it!! Just remember: Dream, Goal, Steps, Plan, Action REALITY!! We got this.<br />
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Until then, whenever that may be, big hugs from me.<br />
--Linda<br />
<br />Linda Kagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00259042112816376940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222710348417012363.post-23827011735266158732018-11-30T05:23:00.000-06:002018-11-30T05:23:03.184-06:00The Price of Mason by Linda Kage<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">and why it took so long to finish him:</span></strong></div>
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Aside from all the obvious reasons, like the fact that I have a full-time job already, two young children, a husband, and all those other real-life things that cut into my writing time, here are the things specific to Mason and his book...<br />
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So, to begin with, this story was request-driven, and anything I’m <em>asked</em> to write is always more challenging for me to accomplish than something I was inspired to do on my own.</div>
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My inner whiner wants to come out and stomp its feet and holler, <em>but I wanna do my OWN thing not what everyone else wants me to do.</em> </div>
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I really am that pathetic too, but still…my muse needs to be awake for the words to come, so it’s always more difficult to jumpstart my writing spirit when it hasn’t already been ignited by inspiration.</div>
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<strong>But...</strong> I’ve proven to myself that I <em>can</em> write upon request, so I knew I could this time too; it would just take me a bit to get into the grove of this particular project, which it really did.</div>
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The fact that I’d already written it through Reese’s eyes made it harder to tell as well.<br />
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<em>I know</em>; logically, it seems as if that should make it easier, right, since I already knew everything that was going to happen.<br />
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But I’m not the sort who can easily re-read a book I’ve already read, so guess what it was like for me to re-<em>write</em> one I’d already <em>written</em>! I didn’t want to get bored, because wow, if I—the freaking author—got bored writing it, I could only imagine what you poor readers would go through reading it.</div>
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Whether I’m the storyteller or the audience, I still want to sit on the edge of my seat in anticipation while working my way through a story, just as much as the next person does. So, trying to keep it new and interesting for me was a big worry going in, which made me procrastinate even starting it.</div>
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Once in there, however, repeating the key scenes from the first book that needed to be in this one too was totally different from Mason’s point of view, so that didn't bore me, <strong><em>thank goodness</em></strong>. (YAY!) And when I finally got to some new never-seen-before scenes, woo baby, I just went at it, full throttle.</div>
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I tried to change as much as I possibly could without changing the original plot by adding new stuff or deeper details that weren’t there before in order to keep it as unique as I could so it would still be entirely its own story, independent of anything else.<br />
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So yeah, if you've never read <em>Price of Kiss</em>, you can still read this as a complete standalone story, no problem!</div>
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Also, my favorite kind of series books are the ones where they change main characters with each new volume, especially in romance. When one couple gets their happily ever after, I’m ready to move on to the next and learn <em>their</em> story. After too many stories with the same couple, watching them go through an abundance of issues and ups and downs, I start to get antsy. <strong><em>Linda needs variety!!</em></strong> </div>
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I mean, admittedly, some of my favorite series novels <em>are</em> where the main characters remain constant throughout the series, but if given the choice, I’d probably prefer to switch it up each time. So that’s another reason why writing about the same couple for a second book was challenging for me.</div>
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Way back in 2013, I swear I did write <em>Price of a Kiss</em> entirely through Reese’s eyes (except for the prologue) for a reason. I knew that if Mason told his side, I’d have to actually experience watching him with other women, like, you know…<strong>in the act</strong>.</div>
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Worse yet, it didn’t seem as if I would fully capture his point of view unless I <em>did</em> see a couple of his thoughts while he was, er, conducting a business transaction with a client or two. That was a big part of his life; I felt as if I would be cheating him of his identity if I didn’t cover some major things that helped form him into the guy he was.</div>
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But I knew it would be too hard for me to see him like that with someone who wasn’t Reese, so…that’s why I initially didn’t even give him his point of view. I was just too chicken to look at all of him.</div>
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And yeah, while it was tough to write those parts, <em>(So heads’ up—there ARE other-women scenes)</em> living through it with him helped me understand him so much better. So I’m definitely glad I stopped being a chicken and woman-upped to capture the complete Mason experience, because now I love him even more than I did in 2013. </div>
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Once I actually stopped procrastinating and putting it off and I said, <strong><em>I am not writing anything else until I finish THIS book</em></strong>, well…Mason didn’t really want to cooperate for the longest time. The turd. He seriously did not want to show me or anyone else his story—he’s still nervous about revealing his truths (because holy crackers, guys, I didn’t realize how much he lied; he is one big-fat liar, for real)—but once I finally cracked him open, wow, the dude told <strong>ALL</strong>. I learned stuff about Mason I absolutely did not know before. He portrayed himself—the good and the bad, his strengths <em>and</em> his weaknesses—to the very best of his ability.</div>
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Writing his story was definitely an experience. There were so many times I felt pinned down, knowing I couldn’t change something I really <em>REALLY</em> wanted to change because it had already happened in <em>Price of a Kiss</em>, but Mason had a way of guiding me through and making it okay when I finally just let him take over and tell <i>his</i> story. And it ended up being so much more meaningful to me in the end.</div>
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And finally, the last reason I put off <em>The Price of Mason</em> for as long as I did: I just didn’t want to say goodbye yet.</div>
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I know, I know. They’re only books. You read them for a couple hours, think yay or nay, and then move on. What’s the big deal? But for me, it's not quite like that. As I’m sure it is for <em>every</em> writer and their creation, writing a story takes a lot out of you. For each hour it takes you to read something, it probably takes that author a hundred to write it. It does for me, anyway. Then there’s the editing, and the editing, and the editing. Did I mention the editing?! Even at the sloppy, messy rough draft stage, it took hundreds of hours to reach that point. It's just not a quick, painless process.</div>
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So yeah, I have been with the Forbidden gang for five <em><strong>years</strong></em>, gotten to know each character, lived in their heads, laughed with them, cried with them, experienced life <em>through</em> them. I lost sleep, thinking about them, trying to fix their problems (<em>or give them problems</em>). I lost friends and gained friends because of them, been torn down and built up because of them, ignored my kids and husband too my times, risked my day job, forgot to eat or neglected to eat healthily, left my house a mess all to make these guys as real as I could, flaws and all. I created them. They’re not just family to me; they <em>are</em> me, little scattered pieces of me sprinkled in here and there that came out as something that became totally their own and not me at all (if that makes any sense).</div>
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Completing and trying to tie all the books together enough to satisfy <em>me</em> and then be done with them forever wasn’t easy. It was kind of like leaving a part of myself behind.</div>
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I was full of reluctance going into this story, but I knew people out there wanted it, and I love you guys enough to do this for you! That’s why I put in the work, and I think it actually ended up making me a stronger person for it. There's definitely something about doing a job that's difficult that makes you appreciate it even more at the end. </div>
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So, <strong>THANK YOU</strong> for giving me that adventure!</div>
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And while I’m so, <em><strong>so very</strong></em> sorry it took me this freaking long to finish it, I’m also super excited—while as nervous as Mason is—to share him with you. He’s by no means perfect because he’s way too human for that, but his imperfections just might be what have endeared me to him the most.</div>
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So, for those of you who asked for this book, here you go! <em><strong>THE PRICE OF MASON</strong></em> is now available for you to experience as well.</div>
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<span id="yiv9847284184freeText9267966953948425906">Custom demanded that Prince Urban get a love mark tattooed to the side of his left eye as an infant, just like the rest of his people, but to him, the stupid things have only brought on the scorn of his father, the misery of his siblings, and caused his entire kingdom to go broke from fighting so many wars over the irritating ink stains.<br /><br /> When Urban’s sister must travel to Donnelly, the kingdom within the sand, for her arranged marriage to align two realms, he goes with her. But he no sooner steps foot inside their castle than his mark starts itching like a son of a bitch, telling him his one true love is near.<br /><br /> It just figures, though, that the woman meant for him is completely forbidden. Now he must decide if he should ignore the persistent mark, telling him she's the one, in order to avoid a possible war between kingdoms, or if he should discover whether she's worth risking everything for so they can be together. Either way, his life gets sucked into chaos with threats of beheadings, dark magic lurking, castle traitors scheming, and sword fights eminent.<br /><br /> Who knew one little tattoo could cause so much trouble?<br /><br /><em>(ONE TRUE LOVE is the Linda's first attempt at a fantasy romance. Please forgive her; she might’ve read an overabundance of Cassandra Gannon, Sarah J. Maas, and Eve Langlais books, then gone off to watch too many episodes of Supernatural, Game of Thrones, and Outlander, because this was the outcome.)</em></span><br />
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Next, I would like to finish up the Forbidden Men series with <strong><em>The Price of Mason</em></strong>.<br />
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Then, I want to work on <strong><em>B & E Ever After,</em></strong> Book 3 of the Fairy Tale Quartet <em>(I made a new book cover for that this week).</em><br />
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<em>Fairy Tale Quartet: Book 2 </em><br />
<em>(But can also be read as a standalone)</em><br />
Contemporary Adult Romantic Comedy<br />
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What’s the one thing you shouldn’t do when your boss is your ruthless evil widowed stepmother who hates your guts more than anyone?
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Kiss the man she’s interested in.
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So what does Kaitlynn Judge find herself doing?
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Yep, she kisses the one man her stepmother currently wants, who also happens to be the CEO of the company where she works.
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Can we say doomed?
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After the death of her father, Kaitlynn's life has been stuck in a rut. But that begins to change after meeting a dashing stranger during the office Halloween party. Now she has to navigate vengeful stepmothers, meddling stepsiblings, and gorgeous guys in hot pursuit to reach her happily ever after.
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While making a detour from the fantasy aspect, this contemporary take on the Cinderella story continues to cling to a few of our favorite traditions. You’ll still find the unmerited oppression along with fleeing women, missing shoes, mouse companions, magic wands, pumpkin-like rides to the big bash, and so much more. So rest assured, it’s all familiar and yet quirkily different.
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">WHAT'S NEXT:</span></strong>
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Happy reading and many hugs,<br />
<span style="color: #ec008c; font-family: "lucida handwriting" , "arial"; font-size: large;">Linda Kage</span><br />
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<br />Linda Kagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00259042112816376940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222710348417012363.post-73609178747847318282018-01-02T08:16:00.000-06:002018-01-02T08:16:12.136-06:00My 2017 Favorite Reads<div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed" id="id_5a4b9312130f87f72211137">
Happy 2018!!!! <br />
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What were your favorite reads of 2017? <br />
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I need to bulk up my already too-huge to-be-read list with some awesome recommendations, please!!!<br />
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As for me, I must've been in the mood for some laughs last year (wow, so strange to call it last year!) because I gravitated toward fun books...and a lot of paranormal/fantasy/dystopian stuff. Huh, odd mix.<br />
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Anyway, I couldn't narrow it down to favorite books, so I went with most entertaining authors I read in 2017. <br />
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So some authors who were new-to-me in 2017 and whose stories I really enjoyed were:<br />
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-Cassandra Gannon (totally on the fun side)<br />
-Curse of the Gods Series (Also on the fun side)<br /> -Sarah J. Maas (Court of Thorns and Roses Series)<br /> -Victoria Aveyard (Red Queen series)<br /> -Kayti McGee (Screwmates made me smile)<br /> -Strong Hate by RD Berg and Ashley Christin<br /> -Everly Lucas (Not released until next week)<br />
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And I feel bad for those authors whom I love and have read for years and years. I just expect so much from them now. So, honestly, the books I read by my go-to authors might've been just as great and entertaining to me as the newbies I listed above, but it just takes them so much more to surpass some of their earlier greatness. Meaning, I only have three of my non-new author reads that stood out to me in 2017. <br />
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And those are:<br />
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-Kristin Hannah (with the book Nightingale...Holy wow!)<br /> -Aly Martinez's Darkest Sunrise Duet and<br /> -Sarah MacLean's The Rules of Scoundrel's series.<br />
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Okay! Your turn. Hit me with your 2017 favorites, especially if they’re fun or fantasy-themed!<br />
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Linda Kagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00259042112816376940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222710348417012363.post-51188748810488660322017-11-02T11:49:00.000-05:002017-11-02T11:49:36.167-05:00New Release - Believing Bailey by Linda Kage<div style="text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Believing-Bailey/Linda-Kage/9781623422547"><img align="left" border="2" src="http://lindakage.com/baileycover.jpg" height="450" hspace="10" width="300" /></a> <a href="http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Believing-Bailey/Linda-Kage/9781623422547" target="main"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;">BELIEVING BAILEY</span></span></strong></a><br />
<em>Granton University Book 3 </em><br />
<em>(But can also be read as a standalone)</em><br />
Contemporary New Adult Romance<br />
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Ebook:<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: medium;">IT'S ABOUT:</span></strong><br />
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All Bailey Prescott wants is to wrangle a certain cowboy on campus. She spends most weekends searching the party crowds for him. One night, at a lame frat house, she finds herself trapped in a bathroom and ends up the sole witness to a crime...or not a crime? <br />
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Bailey’s one small voyeuristic moment has gigantic implications. <br />
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Now she’s forced to make a choice: forget what she saw and move on, or expose herself in order to save a man from spending years behind bars. Whatever her decision, her testimony is the key to everything. It may even open the door to her happily ever after. That is, if anyone actually believes her. <br />
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She just wanted to find her cowboy…how did she get mixed up in a mess like this? <br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: medium;">GOODREADS LINK:</span></strong> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36380801-believing-bailey"><span style="color: black;">http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36380801-believing-bailey</span></a><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: medium;">WHAT'S NEXT:</span></strong> To find out what might be coming next from Linda Kage, check out the new <a href="http://www.lindakage.com/wip"><span style="color: black;">WORKS IN PROGRESS</span></a> Page.Linda Kagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00259042112816376940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222710348417012363.post-76785409194896337062017-07-19T08:01:00.001-05:002017-07-19T08:01:18.781-05:00Monster Among the Roses by Linda Kage<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">MONSTER AMONG THE ROSES</span></strong><br />
<em>A Beauty and the Beast Story</em><br />
Contemporary Adult Romance<br />
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Ebook Available July 24th!<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">IT'S ABOUT:</span></strong><br />
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Shaw Hollander is desperate.<br />
Broke, unemployed, and determined to help his ailing mother, he falls on the good graces of a wealthy benefactor who is willing to give Shaw a job at his mansion in order to pay off his mother’s debts. Suddenly finding himself surrounded by lavish riches, he has no idea what his duties truly entail until he’s sent to the rose garden and meets the tragically mutilated Isobel.<br />
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This Beauty and the Beast story holds true to the core of the fable while shaking off the element of fantasy and dragging it into present-day reality. Shaw and Isobel are ready to let you climb into their four-wheel-drive pickup and take a ride with them into their version of happily ever after, but only if you first dare to gaze upon the monster among the roses.
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">READ CHAPTER ONE:</span></strong><br />
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<a href="http://lindakage.com/matrch1.pdf">http://lindakage.com/matrch1.pdf</a><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">GIVEAWAYS:</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">GOODREADS LINK:</span></strong><br />
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<br />Linda Kagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00259042112816376940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222710348417012363.post-10627532714634464692017-02-07T09:35:00.001-06:002017-02-07T09:35:08.474-06:00In the WorksFor anyone interested in knowing what stories may or may not be coming from me next, here are my writing plans for the future!! <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>CURRENTLY WRITING -</strong></span> <br />
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For anyone who's read <em>Fighting Fate</em> or <em>Loving Lies</em>, you may be happy--or possibly terrified--to learn I've finished 32 chapters of the rough draft for Bailey's story, and have five (or less) chapters to go!! <br />
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The tentative title for it is <em>BELIEVING BAILEY</em>. <br />
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If I self-publish it, it could be here by June, but Omnific Publishing has the first right of refusal to it, so if they'd rather take it on, I will have no idea when they would publish it (hopefully before next February). <br />
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I came up with a blurb for it! I don't know if it will stay the official blurb, but at least it'll give you an idea what the story is about! <br />
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Bailey experiences one small voyeuristic moment after finding herself trapped
in a bathroom during some lame frat party. I mean, who wouldn’t peek? Am I
right? And she feels extra guilty for it afterward, anyway. It shouldn’t be
such a big, awful, terrible ordeal. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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it turns out to be the biggest trial she ever encounters. She has no idea this
one experience will make her the sole witness to a crime, or actually a
non-crime. Whatever. The point is everything now relies on her. Her testimony could
free a guy from spending years behind bars. Her testimony could ultimately free
her, in a roundabout way, from ever thinking she was incapable of love. Her
testimony is frankly the key to everything.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">WHAT I PLAN TO WRITE AFTER THAT-</span></strong></div>
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I'm not sure exactly what will come after Bailey's story, but I have ideas for about ten books swimming around in my head right now. Here are what I'm calling my ideas (In alphabetical order) along with what I think the stories will be about:</div>
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Young Adult Standalone Romance.</div>
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Adult Romance - Maybe on the Suspense side. </div>
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Book One of The Broken Series (Plans for 4 in that series).</div>
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<span id="yiv3512522400yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485801676185_10571" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">They even coordinated their first children’s names to go together.<span id="yiv3512522400yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485801676185_10572"> </span>At first, they decided Peyton would take my last name for her first name and I’d take her last name as my first, so we’d be Royce Kinsey and Kinsey Royce.<span id="yiv3512522400yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485801676185_10573"> </span>But then, our mothers realized that wouldn’t work because they had already planned before we were even born that we’d get married someday, at which point it would sound really strange for Peyton to go from Kinsey Royce to taking my surname and becoming Kinsey Kinsey, so...they used their maiden names and flip flopped them, naming us Spencer Peyton Kinsey and Peyton Spencer Royce. I’m not sure how they decided which of us would be Peyton and which would be Spencer, but I kind of don’t care either, because since the moment she was born, Peyton Royce has been forced on me. </span></span></div>
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<span id="yiv3512522400yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485801676185_10584" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">But the thing was, I didn’t love Peyton. And I’m pretty damn certain she didn’t even like me.<span id="yiv3512522400yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485801676185_10585"> </span>We were complete opposites, except no, we were even further apart than that. We couldn’t be compared to night and day because those were still measurements of time, connecting them.<span id="yiv3512522400yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485801676185_10586"> </span>There was no connection between Peyton and me. We were more like night and banana. We had absolutely nothing in common, except that our mothers were two of the most irritating, pushy, intrusive people on the planet. </span></span></div>
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<span id="yiv3512522400yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485801676185_10623" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I had one mission in life; to take care of my family. And how did I do that? By selling myself to the highest, horniest bidder. But while I made my clients’ wildest fantasies come true, I had a couple fantasies of my own, like getting my sister, mom, and myself out of Waterford, like finally being able to live a normal life, like maybe, actually dating girls I got to choose to be with for once. Even as I started working toward those dreams, one quirky brunette tripped her way into my life. She was way too cheerful, and honest, and innocent to belong in my world, expect that was exactly why I liked her. She was like a fresh blast of sunlight after being trapped in a dark stagnant room for too long, and I was drawn to her. The more time I spent with her, however, the more I fell for her, and the more I grew confused.<span id="yiv3512522400yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1485801676185_10624"> </span>Was Reese Randall impeding the goals I was trying to reach…or becoming them?</span> </span></div>
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Forbidden Men Series - Book 9</span></center>
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Don’t you just hate it when someone destroys all your carefully made plans?
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I mean, I had goals: college to graduate in one semester, a future I was working hard to reach, and an image of myself I wanted the world to see. My life was stacked into these precisely placed blocks. But then Colton Gamble came along and knocked them all askew.
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I hated how he messed everything up, how he could hog all my attention whenever he was around, how he made my pulse quicken—but only because he ticked me off...not because I was attracted to him. Oh! And I hated how he knew how attractive he was too, the shallow, full of himself, doesn’t take no for an answer, too flirty, too cocky, extremely irritating jerk.
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The boy had all the qualities that turned me off. Or so I thought.
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One night he wasn’t quite the brainless, overconfident jerk I assumed he always was.<br /><br />
One night, he took care of me when I was at my lowest. He opened up to me and made me open up to him.
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Now I’m learning maybe he’s not what I first thought he was. And maybe I’M not what I first thought I was. Maybe it’s okay to rearrange a couple of my perfectly set blocks. Maybe, just maybe, I’ll stop worrying about what I’m afraid everyone else will think and finally reach for something I really want. It’s possible some of my plans need to be destroyed, and Colton Gamble is exactly the kind of mess I need in my life.
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What do you think? Should I give him a try?
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Desperately seeking your advice,
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Julianna Radcliffe<br /><br />
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<em>For more information, check out <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32297888-consolation-prize" target="main">Goodreads</a>.</em> <br /><br />
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Kindle - <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N0CT4A3">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N0CT4A3</a><br />Kobo - <a href="https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/consolation-prize-5">https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/consolation-prize-5</a><br />Scribd - <a href="https://www.scribd.com/book/331130271/Consolation-Prize">https://www.scribd.com/book/331130271/Consolation-Prize</a><br />Amazon Paperback - <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/151904769X">https://www.amazon.com/dp/151904769X</a><br />iBooks - <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/consolation-prize/id1176428713">https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/consolation-prize/id1176428713</a><br />B&N Nook - <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/books/1125144993">http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/books/1125144993</a><br />Smashwords - <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/681137">https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/681137</a><br /><br />
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Or I have a page on my website <br />(here at <a href="http://lindakage.com/signed.html" target="main"> http://lindakage.com/signed.html </a>)<br /> where interested people can order a paperback of <br />any of the Forbidden Men series that is signed by the author!
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There are two Amazon giveaways running for Consolation Prize.
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For a chance to win a Kindle <b>ebook edition</b> <br />(30 winners, 1-in-10 chance, open until Sep 22nd or until all prizes are claimed), <br />Click <a href="https://giveaway.amazon.com/p/88e1430f4d5200ed" target="main"> HERE.</a>
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For a chance to win a <b>Amazon paperback</b> edition <br />(3 winners, 1-in-25 chance, open until Sep 22nd or until all prizes are claimed), <br />Click<a href="https://giveaway.amazon.com/p/63d24bc392c0ab95" target="main"> HERE. </a>
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<br />Linda Kagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00259042112816376940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222710348417012363.post-18346662482724167232016-05-20T14:14:00.001-05:002016-05-20T14:14:08.837-05:00Information about Priceless<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">In place of ARCs, I am just going to have a huge
giveaway for copies of my next story (titled Priceless). <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">I've seen the posts about authors behaving
badly, and I know some writers participate in nasty stuff like paying for
five-star reviews, sending minions out to flag or bully people who write low
reviews, or messaging scathing little notes to bloggers who don't say something
satisfactorily enough about their stories. This sickens me. Not only does it
give all authors a bad name, but it's cheating! While these authors are out
there controlling what's being said about their books and upsetting the amazing
blogging world, other authors are receiving lower or fewer yet honest ratings.
It makes it impossible for readers to know what to believe when they see
reviews, and that's just not right. It's bad for bloggers, authors,
readers...just everyone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">I cannot express in words what an honor and
thrill it is to see a brand new, unprompted review pop up for one of my
stories. To know that someone voluntarily chose my book above others to
entertain them for a spell and then go a step further to write down their
thoughts and feelings about it....it's just...it's an amazing feeling. Doesn't
matter if it was a good or bad review; they gave me a chance, and I love and
appreciate that! My job is to put my heart and soul into writing the best story
I can; everyone else's job is to sit back, relax, and take away whatever they
want from it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">So...doing this is my guarantee to you that if
anyone so chooses to read, review, promote, or even mention my next book, it's
because they want to freely and honestly with no censor, prompting, bullying or
otherwise harassment from me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Another reason - Not too long ago, I received a
message from someone telling me one of my incredibly close online friends was
involved in pirating my stories. When I confronted the friend about it, she
thought maybe I'd been sent this message because someone was jealous of her for
always getting early copies from me. I thought that was crazy. I'm not any kind
of popular, big-name bestselling author. Who gives that big a whoop about plain
ol’ me? But if leveling the playing field and making sure everyone starts out
with a fair, equal opportunity will avoid future heartbreak and drama for me,
then that's what I'm going to do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">Then I came to find out, the pirating had most
likely come from someone else but still someone I'd given an ARC to (I don’t
have one hundred percent concrete evidence which person actually did it),
so...that decided the issue for me. Ebooks will only be coming from me in the
form of a gift through Amazon, Barnes and Noble or iBooks. I know there are
still ways to pirate and share those versions, but at least they'll have to put
a tad more effort into it if they do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">This way, everyone has the same chance as
everyone else to win the story, and winners aren't required to read, review or
even look at the book again if they don't wish to! They'll have to work a
little harder for it if they want to become involved in criminal activities,
and...they won't be getting an earlier copy than anyone else because I hit
publish a few minutes ago; it'll be available early...sometime within the next
few hours to the next few days.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;">There are still great things about the book
world, a couple controlling authors, thieving readers, and rude cover models
notwithstanding. It's a place for escape, adventure and happily ever after, and
that's the part I'm going to continue to celebrate and enjoy!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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YOU!!), the link to sign up for its giveaway is : <br />
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<a href="http://lindakage.com/drawing" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">http://lindakage.com/drawing</span></a>
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<span style="font-family: "cooper black"; font-size: x-large;">Priceless</span><a href="http://www.lindakage.com/fm.html"><span style="color: black; font-family: "cooper black" , "arial"; font-size: small;">Forbidden Men, Book 8</span></a> <br />
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<tr><td valign="top"><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , "arial"; font-size: x-small;"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , "arial"; font-size: x-small;"><b>New Adult Romance</b><br /> FORBIDDEN MEN Book 8<br /> ISBN : 9781519008152<br /> Length : 106,000 words<br /> Available : 21 May 2016<br /> In Ebook and in print</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"> Three things in my life were fact. <br /> I needed Sarah to survive.<br /> I needed sex to remain sane.<br /> And I could never mix sex with Sarah.<br /><br /> I just knew—deep in my marrow—that if I did, I’d somehow lose her. All my deepest darkest secrets would crack open, bleed out, and ruin everything between us. I wouldn’t unleash the shit inside me on my worst enemy, let alone her. So she stayed strictly in the friend zone.<br /><br /> People probably thought I never went there with her because of her cerebral palsy, but f*ck them. She knew she was the most important person in my world, and I wasn’t about to risk hurting our relationship just to make my c*ck happy.<br /><br /> Until the moment she begged me to take her virginity.<br /> Now it’s all about to hit the fan, because how the hell do you resist the one person forbidden to you when she says please?<br /><br /> --Brandt Gamble</span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I crossed my arms
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Grabbing a handful
of the front of my shirt, he yanked me against him until our mouths crashed
together. His tongue roughly sought entrance, wrapping around mine and
effectively sucking every thought I’d ever had straight from my brain before he
released me and pushed away again, breathing hard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I blinked, swaying
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should say that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">one</i> more time,” I was
finally able to utter. “Just so I’m perfectly clear I understand what you mean.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">He grinned. “Yes, ma’am.” </span><br />
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My second daughter, Sadie Elizabeth (Sadie after my sister Sandra, and Elizabeth after my husband's grandma), was born on November 19th, weighing in at 7 pounds and 14 ounces and stretching 21 inches long. <br />
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When Lydia--daughter number one--was born, I came home from the hospital on the same day I received my first book (The Stillburrow Crush) in paperback in the mail! Five years later, we came home from the hospital with little Sadie to find two boxes of The Girl's Got Secrets (my twenty-first book) in paperback waiting on us. I thought that was a pretty cool coincidence!<br />
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Sadie's a little bundle of joy, and big sister is still (thankfully) completely fascinated and proud of her. But I had forgotten how time-consuming, exhausting, and overwhelming newborns are. <br />
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TMI Fact: Today is Thursday, and I'm positive I took a shower last Saturday but can't remember if I have had another again since then until this morning. Ergo, it's no surprise that I hadn't gotten around yet to posting a blog about my new book...that came out FIVE DAYS ago!!! I know, I'm totally losing it, right?<br />
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So, yeah! THE GIRL'S GOT SECRETS is now available in both paperback and ebook for your reading pleasure!<br />
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<b>THE GIRL'S GOT SECRETS</b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Book 7 in the Forbidden Men Series</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Girls-Got-Secrets-Forbidden-Men/dp/1519115377" target="_blank">Amazon</a> | <a href="https://www.createspace.com/5842870" target="_blank">Createspace</a><br />
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It co-released with the ever-brilliant, amazingly talented Ada Frost and her book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Silent-Scars-Surviving-Book-4-ebook/dp/B017O4VHT2" target="_blank">SILENT SCARS</a>! <br />
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Ada's story is killing it in reviews. Peeps who have read and reviewed both our books all have given her a five-star rating! Not all of those have been so five-star for me...not that I'm jealous...much...but I'm also so very excited and happy for my buddy and proud that I got to promote my story with such awesome talent! <br />
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Our books are on a book blog tour together now (until December 11th) with Tasty Book Tours. To catch some reviews, guest posts or interviews on the tour, just follow this link:<br />
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You can also find an epic rafflecopter giveaway on that blog tour link for Amazon gift cards and paperbacks.<br />
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COMING NEXT<br />
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If anyone is curious what's in the works next for Linda Kage, well...I'm not too sure. I haven't finished another book yet, so there are no set dates for anything. But I plan to work on Bailey's story (from the Granton University series), then maybe Brandt and Sarah's story (from the Forbidden Men series). I also have a new standalone young adult story in mind and want to tell Cassie and Keller's story (from <i>Delinquent Daddy</i>), so...there will be more; I'm just not completely sure what exactly will be next or when it'll get here!<br />
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And that's all I have to report for today! Hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving (or November) and that Christmas treats you well! Hugs!Linda Kagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00259042112816376940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222710348417012363.post-22618539711664911572015-11-06T09:04:00.001-06:002015-11-06T09:04:18.855-06:00Coming Soon : The Girl's Got Secrets by Linda Kage and Silent Scars by Ada Frost<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For Book 7 of my Forbidden Men series (<em>The Girl's Got Secrets</em>), I'm releasing it on the same day that my book buddy Ada Frost is releasing Book 4 of her Surviving Series (<em>Silent Scars</em>) so we decided to celebrate together!</div>
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The big day is <strong>NOVEMBER 28th.</strong></div>
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<span id="freeText15362845134578232725">Her Man. <br /><br />Their Hero.<br /><br />His Pain. <br /><br />What happens when you pray for death and you’re ignored? <br /><br />You have to live.<br /><br />You have to survive.<br /><br />But what if the last thing you want is to take your next breath? <br /><br />To the world, Ryan is a hero, an ex-marine, brother, son and protector. He has devoted his life to keeping others safe. He will do anything and everything to ensure his loved ones are protected, even if that means destroying his very own soul. After an explosion on the battlefield ends his career in the Marine’s, Ryan is sent home with an honorable discharge. But the war hasn’t ended for him. <br /><br />He is home, he is free and he’s breathing, but he’s dead inside. <br /><br />He wants nothing more than peace, but the nightmares in his mind will not grant him that. They taunt him, tease him and torture his waking moments. The darkness within him is slowly consuming him, blackness has seeped into his veins and is rotting his core. Ryan is a man on the edge of destruction. For once he is the one in need of saving. He needs a saviour. <br /><br />He needs her. <br /><br />Ryan is commissioned as a bodyguard to Aloura Cavendish. When he initially meets her, he believes her to be a spoiled rich brat, wasting his time. But the fire inside her astounds him. When he pushes, he never expects her to push back. When he runs, she chases. For the first time in his life, Ryan has a protector willing to fight his demons. The only problem – he is too afraid to release them.</span></div>
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<span id="freeText10462082799536684788">Here’s the same old “girl posing as a boy” story but with a rock-n-roll twist.<br /><br />Remy Curran dreams of one day being in a band, except the group she wants to join refuses to hire a girl drummer. So, she auditions as a guy...and makes the cut.<br /><br />Becoming “Sticks,” a member of Non-Castrato, isn’t quite what she dreamed it would be, though. She spends most of her time keeping up the subterfuge and learning how to walk, talk, act, and drink like a man.<br /><br />But what’s even harder to deal with is acting oblivious when the band’s heartthrob lead singer, Asher Hart, treats her like one of the guys and not a woman. She never imagined he’d be so much more than a pretty face with a nice voice. But he’s better than perfect. He’s perfect for her.<br /><br />When love and lies combine, Remy must keep up the act or lose everything. But who knew lying to reach one dream could prevent you from attaining an even bigger dream?</span></div>
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SBB Promotions<br /><a href="http://bit.ly/Silent_Scars_RDB">http://bit.ly/Silent_Scars_RDB</a> (Silent Scars)<br /><a href="http://bit.ly/The_Girls_Got_Secrets_RDB">http://bit.ly/The_Girls_Got_Secrets_RDB</a> (Girl's Got Secrets)</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Ten years ago, an oil tycoon’s daughter and a farmer’s son shared a moment neither would ever forget. When she left town in disgrace, a piece of her stayed locked deep within his soul. And like the ground he tended, his emotions lay fallow for years. <br /><br />Cooper Gerhardt’s deeply buried feelings for Jo Ellen Rawlings grew more fertile over time, just waiting for the day she would return to release his deepest desires. <br /><br />When she strolls back into Tommy Creek, Texas for her ten-year class reunion, Cooper shows her farm boy style exactly what she missed by leaving. Starting a short-term affair is simply unavoidable. <br /><br />But when the week is over, can either of them let go of the responsibilities and apprehensions keeping them apart? Or will their fallow hearts learn to flourish together?</span></div>
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Linda Kagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00259042112816376940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222710348417012363.post-52374419137472289272015-07-24T06:20:00.000-05:002015-07-24T06:20:18.752-05:00Cover Reveal Day for WORTH IT!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here's the cover for my next book, WORTH IT (book 6 in the Forbidden Men series, though hopefully it can be read as a standalone as well!), coming AUGUST 25th!! It's a new adult contemporary romance.<br />
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It's up for pre-order in ebook at a few places like:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The paperback version will be available at Amazon in a few weeks!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On Monday (or early next week), <a href="http://xpressobooktours.com/" target="_blank">Xpresso Book Tours</a> will have sign up for any reviewer who might want an ARC to read...AND they'll have a sign up for a Release Day Blast! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Two new members are joining the Forbidden Men ranks. Knox and Felicity. Here's a tiny bit about story:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It was amazing. She was amazing. Life was amazing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I lived for each time I could see her, and nothing else mattered, not that our families were enemies, our time together was forbidden, or we had to meet in secret.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So I was ripped away from the love of my life and shoved into hell, forced to continue without her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It shattered me, broke the best parts of me, left me permanently damaged.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Or so I thought.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Years later, I swear history’s trying to repeat itself because she’s back in my life, and I’m just as drawn to her as I was before. But I'm older and wiser now, and I know she should stay away from a worthless piece of ex-con like me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So, I will not let her in. I absolutely refuse to hurt her. I will keep her away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Then again, sometimes risking your greatest fear to get to a smile makes everything worth it, and besides, I’m not sure I can resist her, anyway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This is the story of how Felicity Bainbridge changed my life forever, starting one summer day long ago after I was forced to change a dirty diaper...</span></div>
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"I’m fine. It’s okay. I...” When I looked up, the words stalled on my tongue. Then they dissolved in shock as I realized I knew him. “You’re...” Well, maybe I didn’t KNOW him, know him. But I definitely knew what he was. He was, “...a Parker.”</div>
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I wasn’t sure which Parker exactly. I’d seen him in school; he was a year ahead of me. But I didn’t know his first name. It had to be strange, though. They all had funky first names. Speed. Cobra. Mercedes. And there were a ton of them. Six or seven, or something like that. Their father had lined them up on our driveway and listed them off, right before yanking forward the only girl and claiming my brother Garrett had gotten her pregnant.</div>
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That had been months ago, back in the spring. After a brief, private conference with Bruce Parker—the Parkers’ dad—my father had dismissed them out of hand and sent the lot of them away, complaining throughout dinner that evening about how the dirty trash Parker family had upset his entire afternoon by daring to set their pathetic, second-hand-store shoes on his property.</div>
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The entire scene had caused a stir for weeks, really. Father grumbled about how he’d like to take the Parkers’ land from them and send them away permanently. Mother had fretted over possible rumors circulating of any of her sons having had any kind of dealings with a Parker. Max incessantly teased Garrett about his impending fatherhood. And an indignant Garrett disclaimed all accusations. But I hadn’t seen or heard from anyone in the Parker family since then.</div>
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As my eyes grew big with shock, his narrowed in recognition.</div>
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“Bainbridge,” he hissed.</div>
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And just like that, we were enemies.</div>
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“Hey, everyone. This is Knox Parker. He’s our new bartender.”</div>
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All four men spun around, and every gaze landed on me.</div>
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The fourth guy finally wandered closer, eyeing me up and down. “Since when do we have a new bartender?”</div>
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“Since today,” Pick answered casually.</div>
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Mr. Curious hitched his chin Pick’s way. “Is this the ex-con?”</div>
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Pick shook his head and sighed. “Ten,” he muttered. “You got a big fucking mouth, you know that?”</div>
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“What?” Ten shrugged. “Was I supposed to keep that secret?”</div>
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“Just...” Pick lifted his hands. “Let’s not go spreading his record around outside the six of us, okay? In fact, for the first week or so, you all don’t even know his name. Got it?”</div>
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None of the other bartenders seemed to get it. They stared at him as if he’d lost his mind. I gave him my own confused glance, wondering why he wanted even my name kept under wraps. But he didn’t explain himself.</div>
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Finally, the one Ten had called Lowe pointed at me as he asked Pick. “Is he—”</div>
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“Yes,” Pick clipped out, sending Lowe a hard stare before Lowe whirled back to me and studied me from head to toe.</div>
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From his barstool, Hart tipped his chin up and decided to talk to me directly. “So what’d you do time for?”</div>
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I turned my attention to him, and something in my gaze must’ve intimidated him because he took an untrusting pull back in his seat. Since it was obvious I already skeeved him out, I couldn’t help myself; I answered, “Rape and murder.”</div>
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A pregnant pause followed before Ten exploded, “What the fuck, Pick? You just hired a murdering rapist to work with us? Dude!”</div>
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Pick sent me a dry glance as if to tell me to keep my mouth shut. But I only gazed back, unrepentant. It wasn’t as if I’d lied. I had done time for both accusations.</div>
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Rubbing a spot on his forehead, Pick frowned at his bartenders. “How long have you idiots known me? Do you honestly think I’d hire a rapist?”</div>
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The disgust in his voice seemed to relieve them, but the one still standing closest to me, visually inspecting me, asked, “What about the murdering part?”</div>
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Pick shrugged. Then he glanced at Lowe and murmured, “I’m sure he had a good reason for that.”</div>
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“Oh, great. That’s just great.” Ten threw his hands into the air and spun away, before facing Pick again. “When he rapes and murders me, please tell my wife he probably had a good reason for it.”</div>
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Hart, still sitting in front of the laptop, snickered. “If he murdered you, Ten, he WOULD have a good reason.”</div>
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“That new bartender keeps checking you out,” Aspen slurred into my ear, not listening to a freaking word I’d just said.</div>
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“Huh?” I glanced over, but he was already in the process of turning away. I scowled at his backside, even though he had a nice one. A very nice one. Hmm. It figured. I think only the sexiest men alive were allowed to bartend at Forbidden. It had to be some kind of decree written somewhere, or something.</div>
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My drinking buddy nudged my elbow. “So? What do you think? I think he’s yummy.”</div>
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I sent her an incredulous glance because I’d never heard her appreciate anyone’s sexiness except Noel's before, and every freaking bartender who worked at Forbidden was hotter than sin.</div>
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When she wiggled her eyebrows, letting me know she’d had one too many to drink, I snorted out a laugh. Aspen was adorable and hilarious when she drank.</div>
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She leaned into me and whispered loudly, “I think you should ask him if you can ride his disco stick. You know, to help you repound from Cameron.”</div>
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I snorted and slapped a hand over my mouth. “You mean, reBOUND?”</div>
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“Tha’s what I said.” Her brow crinkled with confusion. “Wasn’t it?”</div>
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“So?” She went back to nudging my elbow. “What do you think of him?”</div>
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I reluctantly returned my gaze to the new guy. He was half turned away this time. From the side profile, something about him rang strangely familiar, and it sent a zinger I wasn’t expecting through all my girly parts. I blinked, wondering where the heck that had come from. Then he turned fully away, and the bulkiness and breadth of his shoulders brought back a complete stranger’s profile, which knocked some reality back into me.</div>
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He really was a massive work of perfection, but I felt uncomfortable by the unexpected way just looking at him had made my body react. Guilt bit at my conscience because I’d only ever experienced such an instant physical craving for one other person in my life.</div>
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I blew out a breath, wanting out of this conversation almost as much as I wanted to crawl out of my own skin and just be...someone else. “I didn’t say I ever hated you.”</div>
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“So you love me?” Her voice was soft as she stepped closer.</div>
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Dropping my gaze to her, I could do nothing but stare into her penetrating eyes. Panic filled my chest. But I kept facing her directly, afraid to show just how much this slip of a woman intimidated me.</div>
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She moved even closer. “All you have to do is say you don’t love me anymore, and I’ll turn around right now, and walk out. I’ll never bother you again.”</div>
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Linda Kagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00259042112816376940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222710348417012363.post-853248496716350582015-07-20T12:00:00.000-05:002015-07-20T12:00:01.636-05:00Cover Reveal for SILENT SCARS by Ada Frost!!I'm all giddy and excited for my buddy <strong>Ada Frost</strong> who has a cover for her next book - <strong>Silent Scars </strong> - coming out later this year (2015)!<br />
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Check it:<br />
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Isn't it so awesome? Want to know what's even cooler? Ada made that cover herself. I know; she's awesome too!<br />
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This one is Ryan's book in the Surviving Series. If you've read any of her previous stories, you've probably been waiting for this one for a while. But it's almost here, so the wait is almost up. YAY!<br />
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Here's what <em>Silent Scars</em> is about: <br />
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<em>Her Man<o:p></o:p></em></div>
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Their Hero<o:p></o:p></em></div>
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His Pain.<o:p></o:p></em></div>
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What happens when you pray for death and you’re ignored?<o:p></o:p></div>
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You have to live.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You have to survive.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> B</o:p>ut what if the last thing you want is to take your next
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<o:p> </o:p>To the world, Ryan is a hero, an ex-marine, brother, son,
and protector.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has devoted his life
to keeping others safe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He will do
anything and everything to ensure his loved ones are protected, even if that
means destroying his very own soul. After an explosion on the battlefield ends
his career in the Marines, Ryan is sent home with an honorable discharge. But
the war hasn’t ended for him.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<o:p> </o:p>He is home, he is free, and he’s breathing, but he’s dead
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He wants nothing more than peace, but the nightmares in his
mind will not grant him that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They taunt
him, tease him and torture his waking moments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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into his veins and is rotting his core.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Ryan is commissioned as a bodyguard to Aloura
Cavendish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When he initially meets her,
he believes her to be a spoiled rich brat, wasting his time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the fire inside her astounds him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When he pushes, he never expects her to push
back. When he runs, she chases. For the first time in his life, Ryan has a
protector willing to fight his demons. The only problem – he is too afraid to
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<o:p>Happy Reading!</o:p></div>
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Linda Kagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00259042112816376940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222710348417012363.post-64806477945784016822015-01-07T13:15:00.000-06:002015-01-07T13:15:32.166-06:002015 Linda Kage UpdatesIt's been too long since I talked about what's going down in Linda Kage land, so here's a few things coming this year!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>With Every Heartbeat-</strong></span><br />
Book four in the Forbidden series (Quinn's story) is on track (I think!) and should be ready by March 2nd for its release date! I still have to get edits back from the editor, revise, then send it off to the proofreader, then read it one more time, then get it formatted and THEN it should be ready to go!! It's getting so close, though! I've been making banners for it!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>A Perfect Ten-</strong></span><br />
I know some people are more ready for Ten's story than Quinn's, but I assure you, Ten actually starts his story in <em>With Every Heartbeat</em>, so you won't be disappointed thinking you won't get any Ten. Oh, he will be in book four! And to further reassure you...<em>A Perfect Ten</em> (book five in the Forbidden Men series) will release very soon after <em>With Every Heartbeat,</em> like within a month soon. So...cool, right? Am I forgiven for making him go fifth instead of fourth?<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Forbidden Men Facebook Group</span><br />
To help pass the time until March and April, I've been putting up little excerpts and posters about both stories. And then some lovely reader just started a Forbidden Men Lovers facebook group, so I've been adding some exclusive excerpts there too! That group can be found at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/741024459279687/">https://www.facebook.com/groups/741024459279687/</a> if you want to join! There isn't a lot of activity, so trust me, it wouldn't overwhelm you with lots of posts.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Price of a Kiss Audio Book</span><br />
<em>Price of a Kiss's</em> audio book on Audible, Amazon, and iTunes is coming along nicely. It's been narrated and produced, and we're just waiting for it to head to retail stores! I'll announce more on that when it's actually available! :) <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Cheap Linda Kage Books</span><br />
In preparation for <em>With Every Heartbeat</em> and <em>A Perfect Ten</em>, the first three books in the Forbidden Men series will go on sale at different times in February. <br />
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<strong>Price of a Kiss</strong> will be available for $0.99 from February 2nd to February 7th!<br />
<strong>To Professor, with Love</strong> will be available for $0.99 from February 9th to 21th! And...<br />
<strong>Be My Hero</strong> will be available for $0.99 from February 23rd to 28th!<br />
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There are two reason<em> To Professor, With Love's</em> sale will last two weeks while the other two will last only one. First, the other two have been on sale before, while this will be TPWL's first time (he's little nervous about this being his first time, too, but I told him sales are good, it will be okay). And the other reason TPWL's sale is lasting two weeks instead of one is... <em>With Every Heartbeat</em> and <em>A Perfect Ten</em> can hopefully be read as a standalone, but they'll make more sense if you read at least TPWL first, so...that's why that is that, since I knew you were curious (which, okay, you probably weren't!) Anyway...<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Stories in Progress</span><br />
So, after I finished the rough drafts for <em>With Every Heartbeat</em> and <em>A Perfect Ten</em>, I wasn't too certain what to work on next. I have to write Bailey's story from the Granton University series. I love her hero guy so far, so that could be fun. But I also have plans for Cassidy and Keller from the story <em>Delinquent Daddy</em>. The scene I have written for that seems fun too, but also kind of steamy. Then there's Sarah and Brandt's story from the Forbidden Men series, and lots of people want a story for <em>Price of a Kiss</em> from Mason's point of view, plus I have a young adult story that's been hanging out in my head for months (I should probably get that out of there soon before it leads to some kind of infection). <br />
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And I have to get Asher's book written. He's supposed to be book six in the Forbidden Men series and I still have plans to get him a book out by August, but suddenly...this other story idea came to me, and the main guy in it turned into yet <em>another</em> Forbidden Man, and ack...do you think it'd be terribly, awfully rude of me if I came out with a brand new, never heard-of before Forbidden book and made it book six, which would push Asher's story to the book seven slot?? Let me know your thoughts on that...because this story idea won't leave me alone (the creeper!) and I really want to tell it!<br />
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To say the least, there should be plenty more to read from me in the future. I just have no idea which order they'll be coming in!<br />
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Thanks for listening to me yammer on and on! You'll hear more from me soon! Hugs. <br />
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