Bella Street Romance Goes Retro

Welcome to the 2nd Annual Lucky Leprechaun Giveaway Hop March 17th to 22nd Co-Hosted By Books Complete Me & Author Cindy Thomas What better way to say Erin Go Braugh ?  Leave a comment for a chance to win one of 3 copies of my book, coincidentally entitled Kiss Me, I'm Irish . Talk about luck! 3 random commenters will be chosen to win either print or e-versions. And like a found piece o' gold, there's a bonus prize of a Kiss Me, I'm Irish Tshirt to a fourth winner!    burn out design, size 11-13 So read the excerpt below, kiss someone for luck, and leave a comment! Kiss Me, I'm Irish excerpt                                                    © 2011 Bella Street What time is it? It was too dark to see a cloc...

This is the second of three blog hops I'll be doing to celebrate the wearing of the green. This one is hosted by Carrie Ann Ryan and is ONE DAY ONLY. Carrie will be choosing two random commenters from among all those commenting at the 120 blogs listed below--including mine! Every comment you leave is counted as an additional entry to win one of two grand prizes: Grand Prize 1: Winner's Choice of a Kindle Fire or Nook Tablet Grand Prize 2: Winner's Choice of a $90 Amazon or Barnes&Noble Gift Card So chop chop! Three commenters here will also be randomly chosen for a chance to win one of three copies of my sweet, paranormal romance Kiss Me, I'm Irish (natch). Winners will have the option of an e-copy or print version. Open to international commentors, too! An excerpt is at the very end for a peekaloo. So leave a comment with your email and then hop to the next blog for more chances to win! Kiss Me, I'm Irish excerpt         ...

One of the best lines of St Patrick's Day is "Kiss me, I'm Irish". There's also that whole kissing the Blarney Stone thing. Something about kissing and romance just go with March 17th like a leprechaun to gold. If you're in the mood for a little Irish romance, I want to recommend a wonderful book I stayed up reading until the wee hours of the morn (a little Irish flair there). The Spell of the Selkie isn't just a sweetly spicy romance that takes your breath away,  it will make you fall in love with Ireland itself. Honestly, the book should have a link to a travel agency in the back, because after reading it, I WANT TO GO! In this modern-day fairy tale romance, American doctor Tara Moore’s life is transformed when she travels to an enchanted Irish island and discovers she has the power to break a 200-year-old curse. At first, Tara laughs off the villagers’ speculation that she is descended from a selkie—a magical creature who is bewitching the isl...

I Smell Sheep and Fictional Candy are hosting an awesome blog hop in honor of that ab-fab (also a pun on the above photo) holiday St Patrick's Day. Please leave a comment below for a chance to enter to win one of three copies of my book, a sweet, paranormal romance called Kiss Me, I'm Irish . The random.org-selected winners will choose between print, Kindle, Nook, or Smashwords versions. Emily Musgrave is heading a direction she never wanted to go in Regency England--namely a convent to turn her from her waywardness. But it's more loneliness than rebellion that motivates her to escape her certain fate. Liam Jackson is going nowhere fast in modern-day Tennessee. Playing his Dobro in seedy bars and backward dives along with his fiddling sister, Tinker, is doing nothing for his music career--and even less for the dark places in his soul. Pixie mischief can not only change time-lines, it can change hearts. Because sometimes a girl just needs a little magic in her...

So what does Transylvania and an Irish romance have in common? The Urban Dictionary says that an Irish Dracula is a paragon of slow execution, physically or mentally. This must be an inside joke unknowable to a Hungarian like myself, so we'll move on to the idea that Dracula was an Irishman. W as Dracula really based on an Irish legend? Bram Stoker, author of Dracula, himself was an Irishman who grew up playing in graveyards , and there's a fascinating legend that the Irish version of a vampire was more Stoker's inspiration than Vlad the Impaler: Abhartach was either a dwarf or a small, deformed man who was a tyrannical Celtic chief over his people and thought to have magical powers. The legend goes that the local people were so afraid of him that they hired a warrior to kill him. The warrior succeeded, but Abhartach rose from the grave, demanding a blood sacrifice to drink from his subjects. The warrior killed him two more times, and two more times the Celti...

For one week only, Smashwords is having their Read An E-Book Week promotion and that means my Apocalypse Babes series is FREE. All six books. The Z Word The X Factor iRobotronic Kumbaya Much Bite Me Apocalypse For Realz FREE. With CODE: RE100 Who knew the apocalypse could be so cheap? But it won't last. So like weapons when you see a zombie, grab 'em quick!

My book Kiss Me, I'm Irish is one of nearly 60 books available for under $5 during the month of March at Independent Author Network . There are several genres represented. Something for everyone! Romance, mystery, thrillers, womens fiction...all by independent authors.  Here are a few I picked because I liked their covers. So try a new voice and find great reads for under $5 ! March Madness at Independent Authors Network. Check it out!