Josey's Christmas Cookie Blog Tour December 15-20, 2014

JOSEY’S CHRISTMAS COOKIE BLOG TOUR

BY SHARON KLEVE

 

 

http://www.amazon.com/Joseys-Christmas-Cookie-Sharon-Kleve-ebook/dp/B00ACLW8QQ/ 

 

FIVE STAR REVIEW

5.0 out of 5 stars A Lovable Story!

By Debby Lee

 

I loved this heartwarming Christmas story.
Josey was a workaholic who spent all her spare time at the office in order to cope with the tragic loss of her parents and being jilted by her fiance. I really felt for her.
Clint was a handsome veterinarian Josey met at an animal rescue event who helped her buy a large slobbering dog named Cookie. Clint handled the animals with professionalism, sincerity, and great care.
The two Morning Dove's in the story, Harry and Beatrice, were desperate to see Josey and Clint get together in time for Christmas.
If you enjoy sweet plots, whimsical animal themes, and stories that make you go "aaawww" this one's for you.
Highly entertaining, highly recommended!

 

BLURB:

In the blink of an eye, Josey lost the most important people in her life, her parents.

Can a hound dog named Cookie, a pair of mourning doves, and a passionate vet bring the holiday spirit back to Josey's life in time for Christmas?

 

EXCERPT:

As I stared at the pathetic dog in his diaper, I realized no one wanted the dog, they were just gawking at him. The sign said his name was Cookie, part Basset Hound and part Redbone Coonhound. I didn’t know anything about either breed. I did know he was very large and he was slobbering everywhere and he should have a diaper around his neck. I turned to continue my search and a felt a tug on my pant leg. I looked down and Cookie had a hold of my jeans. When our eyes met, Cookie's eyes twinkled, just like Clint's.

 

A glob of drool hit the top of my shoe. He let go of my pant leg and licked the goo off my shoe. I wanted to say, "gross," but instead I said, "thank you." I was hooked. His fur was a reddish brown and soft as silk. Not caring about drool or dog hair, I sat down on the floor next to Cookie, wrapped my arms around his neck, and finally felt at peace.

 

Another glob of drool hit the floor next to my butt. He looked sad, like that was a deal breaker and I'd leave him behind. I looked Cookie in his sad eyes and laughed. He pulled back his goofy lips and smiled back.

 

That's when I heard Clint's voice, "Well Josey, it looks like you found your soul mate."

 

He laughed, but not at my expense.

 

Author Sharon Kleve

Thanks for Entering!

Thanks to all of you who entered the Books To Go Now Holiday Gifts of Love Blog Hop! The winner of my novella Holiday Heart, has been notified and I am awaiting her mailing information. Hope you have a Merry Christmas!

Holiday Gifts of Love Blog Hop!

Please join me and many other bestselling Books To Go Now authors for the 

Holiday Gifts of Love Blog Hop!

December 1^st-7^th 2014

http://bookstogonow.com/holiday-gifts-love-blog-hop/

Celebrate the Wonder of the Holiday Season! Visit all of the blogs and answer this question, "What is your favorite Christmas Movie?" There's a giveaway at each stop so be sure to visit them all for your chance to win cool prizes, including:

GRANDE PRIZE: (Four) $25.00 Amazon Gift Cards!

$25.00 donated by Jennifer Conner

$25.00 donated by Sharon Kleve

$25.00 donated by Joanne Jaytanie

$25.00 donated by Angela Ford

and I will give away my novella, Holiday Heart to one lucky winner. Sorry, contingent U.S. only. 

Just leave your name and email in the comments, along with the name of your favorite Christmas movie.Good Luck!

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Coming Soon! Holiday Blog Hop!

Please join me and many other authors on December 1 through 7, for the Books To Go Now Holiday Gifts of Love Blog Hop for your chance to win the Grand Prize of four $25 Amazon gift cards and of course, many other prizes from the authors. Save the date and don't miss it!

Thank You!

Thank you to everyone who downloaded my latest story, Saddle Up For Love, #4 in The Pancake Club series. You helped me to reach #3 out of the Top 100 Free Stories in Kindle Short Reads-Romance! Hope you enjoyed the ending to the series, and that you have now read all four stories. Please be sure to leave a review on Amazon for each of the stories: Love On The Airwaves by Jennifer Conner, Lesson Plan For Love by Jackie Marilla, Damage Control by J.W. Stacks and Saddle Up For Love by Marilyn Conner Miles. We appreciate it!

FREE on Amazon!

FREE on Amazon.com, stories 2, 3 and 4 of The Pancake Club series. That's right, today through Saturday you can get all three stories! Lesson Plan For Love by Jackie Marilla, Damage Control by J.W. Stacks and Saddle Up For Love by yours truly, Marilyn Conner Miles. Don't delay, this is only for a limited time, November 6, through November 8, 2014,

Saddle Up For Love

Just released as an ebook on Amazon.com my newest story, Saddle Up For Love (The Pancake Club Story #4). This is the fourth and last story in The Pancake Club series. Barb Sessions is a wrangler for the Saddle Up Dude Ranch, just outside the small town of Mercy Ridge. A couple times a week she and the other Pancake Club members got together for breakfast at the Memories Diner and discussed single life in a small town. Trouble is, now the other members are all engaged to be married. Barb meets a lot of dudes, couples in love and children on her job, but never any men her age. Could it be because she's always in jeans and cowboy boots? Dirk Adams is new to town, the new vet and the new owner of the town's Large Animal Mobile Veterinary Clinic. And, this is his first job as a practicing veterinarian. He's heard that small town folks often don't warm up to new people...and now he's getting ready to replace their beloved retiring Doc Nick. How will they react to Dirk's new ways?

Just Released! Third in the Pancake Club Series!

If you've read Love on The Airwaves by Jennifer Conner and Lesson Plan For Love by Jackie Marilla, you'll want to get the next story in the series, Damage Control by J.W. Stacks. You can find it on Amazon.com today!

Lesson Plan For Love

Lesson Plan for Love by Jackie Marilla
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

If you’ve read Jackie Marilla’s previous stories, Only on Valentine’s Day and Love Those Hula Hips as I have, you won’t be disappointed in her newest sweet romance, Lesson Plan For Love, the second story in The Pancake Club series, that began with Jennifer Conner’s Love on the Airwaves.

Unlucky in love, Chad Granger faces his friends at the Memories Diner with dread. How should he explain his latest in a string of break-ups? He enters the café with a grin pasted on his face, but when his fellow Pancake Club members greet him for breakfast, by the looks on their faces, he realizes they—and the rest of the town—already know. The worst part is, now he has no more prospects, unless an angel waltzes into town.

When a vision in purple with no wedding ring on her hand, dances through the café door, Chad has to wonder, could this really be his lucky day after all?


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Just Released!

Just released, ebook Jump Into Fall Sampler Books on Amazon.com. First chapters from some of Books To Go Now's best-selling stories from their best-selling authors, Jennifer Conner, Sharon Kleve, Chris Karlsen, Angela Ford, Marilyn Conner Miles, Joanne Jaytanie, Natalie-Nicole Bates, Margarita Felices, Amber Daulton, and Jackie Marilla. Together for the first time. Romance, sweet, historical, paranormal, women's fiction and more. Something for everyone. All for only ninety-nine cents! You can find it at: http://www.amazon.com/Jump-into-Fall-Sampler-Books-ebook/dp/B00O145QSW/

The Pancake Club

Love on the Airwaves, released on Amazon yesterday is the first story in The Pancake Club Series. It takes place in a small town in eastern Washington State, and centers on the lives of four single friends who meet a couple mornings a week at the Memories Diner for breakfast. [http://www.amazon.com/Love-Airwaves-Pancake-Club-Book-ebook/dp/B00NE4S3TY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1410803085&sr=8-1&keywords=Love+on+the+Airwaves+conner #sweetromance #romancenewrelease

Free On Amazon

FREE September 9 (TODAY!) through September 13, 2014, the ebook version of my latest release, Perfect Pair, on Amazon.com. Get your copy and then, if you feel so inclined, please write a review! Thanks! :-)

How I write

From an article in the online site, Examiner.com: Author Marilyn Conner Miles talks about how she writes her books. An interviewer asked me how I got started in writing. I stated writing when I learned to print in first grade. I’d write stories and give them to my family and teachers. (Several years ago, my second grade teacher gave one back to a family friend several who then returned it to me. It was a kick). Then I showed a story I’d written to the librarian of our grade school and she showed the principal. I illustrated all the stories too, and made “hardbacks” out of them by using the cardboard from my dad’s new white shirt packages. I used wire to attach the story to the “cover.” Later, I took creative writing classes, in high school and college. I couldn’t figure out how I would use a degree in English. I just wanted to write! So I majored in advertising and minored in English and got a BA in Communications. I worked in advertising, marketing, promotions and public relations and wrote tv and radio commercials, print ads for newspapers, catalogs and brochures. I kept a journal for years but it wasn’t until I “retired” and began working from home, that I began to think about writing stories again. I’ve always had a voracious appetite for reading, and especially romance, which is why I write in that genre. I also enjoy research, so when I wanted to write a flight scene, I took a flying lesson, and wrote down everything I could remember afterward. Much of my writing comes from subjects I already know about and people I’ve met over the years. I think one of my family members likes to guess what person I’ve based my characters on. But often my hero or heroine is a combination of two or more people or their life experiences. I’m not a fast writer like many authors I know. In the past year, I’ve had three stories published, and the first one I actually wrote thirty years ago. Of course, it needed updating to make it current and much rewriting. The second story was semi-written. But the third is all new and I was surprised when I sat down at the computer, and it just seemed to flow from my brain to my fingers…well, for awhile. I couldn’t type fast enough! All three of my stories have been published by publisher, Books To Go Now http://bookstogonow.com/ : Acapulco Adventure, Holiday Heart and Perfect Pair. Holiday Heart is also in an anthology called Christmas Romance Volume 2. I had fun with the titles on those three. Acapulco Adventure had the two word title, and when I named Holiday Heart that two word title thing just continued. However, I don’t plan to make a habit of it. I also didn’t intend to make them a series, but they ended up being that way. The common character in all three is Brenda. I used my past career with the airlines as the setting in Acapulco Adventure and because of Brenda, flying is a major part of Holiday Heart too. I have fun coming up with the right names for my characters. Since they are loosely based on people I knew, I try to use names similar to theirs. But because my characters are a combination of people I’ve known in the past and myself, I doubt that anyone would see themselves in these characters. Currently, I am writing Saddle Up for Love, which will be part of The Pancake Club series with stories by authors Jennifer Conner, Jackie Marilla and JW Stacks. A freelance editor, and author, Marilyn lives with her husband and cat in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains in southwest Washington State, where she watches horses, deer, rabbits, hummingbirds and sometimes owls from her home office window.

Goodreads Giveaway

Hello Readers, Be sure to enter the Goodreads Giveaway to win a paperback version of my newest release, Perfect Pair. The contest begins tonight at midnight and runs through midnight, Sunday, August 17th. Good Luck!

Goodreads Book Giveaway

Perfect Pair

by Marilyn Conner Miles

Giveaway ends August 17, 2014.

See the giveaway details at Goodreads.

Enter to win

New Shelf

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Perfect Pair in Paperback!

Good news! Perfect Pair is now out in paperback! Available on Amazon.

Perfect Pair

Hello Readers! Perfect Pair has been released! You can find it TODAY on Amazon in ebook form, for $1.99. Perfect timing, my husband and I got married sixteen years ago today! Dare I say, Perfect Pair? Stunned by the loss of her paralegal job and with nowhere to live, city girl Amber Preston, agrees to take a temporary job as a house-and-pet-sitter on a mini-farm. Problem is, she’s never had a pet of any kind, and now she must care for a collection of large and small animals! When handsome farrier, Mick Christopher, comes across her path, Amber begins to wonder if all things come in pairs...

Happy Fourth of July

Happy Fourth of July to all my readers! Hope you have a safe and fun Fourth. And after the Fourth, please look for my soon-to-be-released third and last story of the series that began with Acapulco Adventure. Perfect Pair! Excerpt from Perfect Pair “There must be a million stars up there, strewn across the sky.” She pointed. “I’ve never seen anything like it except in pictures. It’s beautiful.” “That’s because it’s so dark out here in the country with no streetlights.” “I see the Big Dipper…and the Little Dipper.” She breathed in the icy air. Mick stood closer to her and pointed. “And there’s Orion. See it?” “No. Where?” She shivered as she stood there trying to find it, then felt the warmth of Mick’s heavily muscled arm around her, as he pointed with his other hand. “Right there. If you could wish on a star right now. What would you wish?” “I’d wish that this night wasn't a dream.” He took her arm and slowly turned her to face him. He touched her cheek. She’d never in her life had a man look at her as Mick did now. Their breaths mingled in the icy air. His handsome face was lit by the moonlight. He dropped his head to kiss her. It began with just a brush of his lips to hers. When she wound her hands behind his neck, he deepened the kiss. With his arms around her, he held her as though she was special. Precious.

This Saturday, June 28, 2014!

Hello Friends and Fans, Please join me and other Books To Go Now authors for the Books To Go Now Facebooks Party, tomorrow, Saturday June 28, 2014. The party starts at 11:00 a.m. Pacific Standard Time and runs through 4:00 p.m. I will be there at 11:30. Hope to see you there! https://www.facebook.com/#!/events/716626121712130/

New Cover!

Here is the cover for my soon-to-be-released next story, Perfect Pair! What do you think?

Another Chance to Win!

Hello Readers, Here is another opportunity to win my paperback novella, Holiday Heart, and see some photos of cool cats too! Head on over to Vanessa Morgan's Travelling Cats Blog and enter to win. http://travelling-cats.blogspot.com. The contest runs from June 20 to June 30, 2014. Good lucks and happy reading!

Goodreads Giveaway

Goodreads Giveaway of Holiday Heart: MIDNIGHT June 18, 2014 thru MIDNIGHT June 20, 2014!

Goodreads Book Giveaway

Holiday Heart

by Marilyn Conner Miles

Giveaway ends June 20, 2014.

See the giveaway details at Goodreads.

Enter to win

Today's the Day! Interview

Today's the day! To view my interview on author Mae Clair's blog, please go to: https://maeclair.wordpress.com/2014/06/12/mae-clairs-pen-pal-meet-author-marilyn-conner-miles Mae Clair's Pen Pal: Meet Author Marilyn Conner Miles Today, I‘d like to welcome Pen Pal Marilyn Conner Miles to my blog. Marilyn has dropped by with HOLIDAY HEART (who doesn't like a bit of Christmas in the summer?) and a glimpse of her upcoming rele... FROM THE PEN OF MAE CLAIR

Interview

Save the date! Please join me this Thursday, June 12 for my interview on Mae Clair's blog, From the Pen of Mae Clair, (Mae Clair, Author of "Myth, Mystery and Romance") Hope to see you there! Psst. You may learn more about my upcoming release.

Save the Date!

Mark this date! Sat May 17th, all day. 6:00 a.m to 9:00 p.m. (Pacific Standard Time) This is the day of the "Meet the Books To Go Now Authors Facebook Event! https://www.facebook.com/events/1429224847332437/?context=create&ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming&source=49 Hope you can join me and all the Books To Go Now authors. Look for me at 10:00 a.m. About Books To Go Now: http://bookstogonow.com/ Books to Go Now's Mission: Support our Authors. Promote their Works. Help them to Achieve Success. Our staff works one-on-one with our authors to help them to create wonderful works of fiction. Upon publication we use a successful multi-platform strategy to promote and market their work. Our staff has helped many authors become International and Domestic Bestsellers. Books to Go Now offers professional editing, cover design, multiple book format file creation, and most important—publicity. Our staff works to help make our author books a success one book at a time.

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter, readers. Hope you have a blessed day with your family and friends.

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Sweet Romance Author's Event

Looking for some more sweet romance to read? Want to meet some new authors? Want to have fun? You want to come to this party! Join me and 30+ other sweet romance authors as we tell you about our books, play games, do giveaways - all in a week of fun, fun, fun, beginning this Sunday, March 23, 2014.

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Thanks

A big thank you goes out to all who participated in the Books To Go Now Spring Fling Blog Hop, and especially to you who visited this blog. I've chosen and notified the winner of my novella, Holiday Heart and the glass bracelet, and expect to hear from her soon! If you were not the winner, please try again next time! And, please look for the last book in my series that began with Acapulco Adventure, followed by Holiday Heart, and coming out this Spring.

Books To Go Now Spring Fling Blog Hop, March 7-11, 2014

Please join me and many other authors for the Books To Go Now Spring Fling Blog Hop, beginning March 7, 2014 for your chance to meet--or renew your acquaintance--with great authors and a chance to win prizes.
To be eligible for the publisher's Grand Prizes (a Paperwhite Kindle or a $25 Amazon gift card) and each author's prizes, please leave your name and email address below in the Comments.
I will be giving away a paperback copy of my novella, Holiday Heart and the beautiful bracelet shown below.
Let me know in your comments, what you like best about Spring. Flowers? Weather? Baby animals?
Good luck!

 

http://bookstogonow.com/blog-hops

 

                  

 

 

 

Now Available on NOOK!

I'm happy to announce that Holiday Heart is now available for Barnes and Noble's NOOK! Get your copy today at only $1.99.

Are you ready for the next Books To Go Now Blog Hop? It's coming up soon!

Valentine's Romance

On the Kindle Countdown Deals today and only .99. A great deal for Valentine's Day for you or your sweetie! http://www.amazon.com/Valentines-Romance-Short-Valentine-Romances-ebook/dp/B00HQUJ6SY/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1392052869&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=valentine%27s+romane+conner

Valentine's Romance

Looking for some great Valentine's Day stories to read? Then you'll want to read a new anthology by Books To Go Now authors, Pat White, Jennifer Conner, Cary Morgan Frates and Julie Kavanagh, called Valentine's Romance. You will find this e-book on Amazon.com for only $2.99!

Next Blog Hop

Please join me for the next Books To Go Now blog hop, coming up this March. For your chance to win one of many prizes, you must stop by one of the participating blog hop stops (March 7-11, 2014) and tell us how you celebrate Spring!* To increase your chance of winning you are welcome to visit EACH blog and comment. Books To Go Now will offer two Grand Prizes!! In order to take part, you must leave your comment and email address. Two winners will be chosen at random and notified no later than March 15, 2014. 1st Grand Prize: (1) Paperwhite Kindle 2nd Grand Prize: (1) $25 Amazon Gift Card Hope to see you there!

Holiday Heart in Paperback

I'm pleased to announce that Holiday Heart is now also available in paperback on Amazon.com for those of you who prefer to have a non-ebook version.