Showing posts with label celebrate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label celebrate. Show all posts

Friday, 3 October 2014

Multitasking: Celebrate and Meet the Character


Okay, to say that I'm super busy and exhausted is an understatement, but never to tired to celebrate. 

It's all about life. Living it. Making fun of it. And sometimes giving it the finger. 



Meet the Character - Sarita Cerez
I was tagged by the wonderful Inge Saunders to participate in this blog hop. A little about Inge and her book:


First time author Inge Saunders fell in love with books when she started reading romance novels with her grandmother. Intrigued by the worlds books unlocked, it was inevitable she would take pen to paper.

She`s forms part of Romance writers` Organization of South Africa (ROSA) and currently has two books under contract with Decadent Publishing, Falling for Mr. Unexpected (set to be released at the end of September 2014) and Dance of Love ( due later in 2014).



The Blurb
Can Emma fall for Mr. Unexpected when she doesn’t believe in Mr. Right or even Mr. Right Now…?
Primary school teacher Emma Cupido compares the notion of “The One,” with believing in the Tooth Fairy. When the school holidays starts, she heads for her brother-in-law`s beach house in Strand, South Africa and stumbles on more than she bargained for.
Hollywood heartthrob, Damian Davidson flees LA thinking his beach house in SA would be a safe hideout from his sex scandal. He’s had his fill of manipulative women and when he mistakes Emma for a crazy fan, all hell breaks loose.

Emma and Damian get off to a rocky start but first impressions can be deceiving. Is there more to Damian than the superficial taint of Hollywood? And what happens when she agrees to a trip to LA? Will Emma become a believer in “The One” or just another Hollywood scandal?

My turn now
What is the name of your character? Is s/he fictional/historical?
Sarita Cerez (make sure to roll the r's). She's fictional, but I'd love to be able to meet her without having to be put on medications to 'stabilize' me.

 When and where is the story set?
It's a contemporary romance set a medium security prison in Washington, D.C. where illegal immigrants are detained until they are deported.

 What should we know about your character?
She is not an illegal immigrant, but has to act like one during an undercover assignment. 

What is your character's goal?
To protect the daughter of the president of South Korea who is being deported as a punishment by her father after being a naughty girl. 

Keeping her hands off of Matthew Carter, the guard she's fallen in love with.

What is screwing up your character's life (main conflict in writerly speak)?
She's undercover for the Secret Service and has to lie to Carter in order to protect her charge. It doesn't help that he thinks shes' being deported to Columbia.

What is the title?
Love Undercover
When can we expect the book to be published or when was it published?
It was released September 13th, 2014. You can get your copy here:

Buy links

For next week I've tagged:
The ever evolving Kiru Taye:
A lover of books, as a teenager Kiru Taye used to read novels under the blanket during lights-outs in boarding school. These days, with a young family to take care of, she's still sacrificing sleep for the pleasures of a good book.

During the day though, she transforms her wildly vivid imagination into sensual, atmospheric romance stories with passionate characters. 
You reach her via her blog, Facebook, Twitter, Google+ or Pinterest

BLURB

Sassy, successful Faith Brown has earned her place in the boardroom through hard work and sheer ambition. Making family is not on her agenda when there are businesses to develop and competitors to outdo. So when a casual affair with smooth and irresistible tycoon Mark Essien leads to an unplanned pregnancy, she’s determined not to make the mistakes her mother made by living with a man just for the sake of her child.

For Mark, personal matters have no place in the boardroom. Spotting the perfect opportunity, he ruthlessly launches a takeover bid for Faith’s Investment Brokerage firm. Finding out he’ll soon be a father, he knows he can’t let the indomitable and sexy Faith go through with her plans of single parenthood. All gloves are off. He’ll seduce her by any tactic necessary if it means his child doesn’t suffer the same stigma he did as a child.

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And the fabulous Debbie Christiana:


Debbie Christiana loves to read and write about things that go bump in the night, mysteries and unusual love stories.

She's been fortunate to publish three novels, Twin Flames, Forever Flames and her romantic suspense, Solstice, by Black Opal Books.

Author contact information
Twitter: @DebChristiana

The Blurb

She’d never met him before, or had she?
The last thing forty-year-old Natalia Santagario expected was to be sitting on a Manhattan barstool, ogling a man she’s never met, but swears she knows.
He didn’t know her at all, or did he?
The mysterious dark-haired woman at the end of the bar stops twenty-eight-year old Marc Tremonti in his tracks. His head says she’s a stranger, but his heart tells him otherwise.
Together they embark on an adventure that will change their lives forever.
Marc’s aunt Mariella, an expert in reincarnation, persuades them to relive their past to help explain their enigmatic attraction. As they open the doors to their past lives, they discover they have been lovers for hundreds of lives, are connected by an ancient bond, and are considered Twin Flame soul mates.But their reunion in this life is complicated by an almost ex-wife, a temporary bout of amnesia and a mischievous and meddling ghost with its own agenda. Will their strong connection find a way to bring them together? Or is this the lifetime they must go their separate ways?
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Friday, 26 September 2014

Celebration and a $25 Amazon GC giveaway


Vikki at Scribblings of an Aspiring Author has started a meme where every Friday we post what we're celebrating for the week. Thanks Vikki. It's not too late to sign up if you're interested.



Celebrating
1. My birthday (Yay!)
2. Life
3. The support of friends (internet and in my face) and family 
4. Being grateful for everything. The hard stuff isn't so hard when you can appreciate even just a little bit of good in it
5. My awesome blog tour for Love Undercover. Enter to win a $25 Amazon gift card

Friday, 29 August 2014

Celebrating Access

Vikki at Scribblings of an Aspiring Author has started a meme where every Friday we post what we're celebrating for the week. Thanks Vikki. It's not too late to sign up if you're interested.





  1. Just the fact that I have fast internet today so I can create this post is something to celebrate.
  2. The lack of internet this past week allowed me to focus on second round editing on the second book in the Destiny Series, Destiny Mine. I'm almost done with it. Yay.
  3. And just for the heck of it, I'm celebrating that fact that I can breath without any problems, walk without any issues, and live in a free and peaceful country. 

Friday, 1 August 2014

Celebrate and Cover Reveal sign up for Love Undercover


Vikki at Scribblings of an Aspiring Author has started a meme where every Friday we post what we're celebrating for the week. Thanks Vikki. It's not too late to sign up if you're interested.



This week was chock full of celebrations

1. I am officially finished with school (for this program). I took my last exam on Thursday. Slow motion jumping up and down with arms raised.

2. Met with a friend I haven't seen in a year and we ate until her stomach bulged out. No worries, she's slim so she can handle the calories. 

3. The same friend had me laughing harder than I have in a long time. 

4. I now have time to focus on my galley edits. 

5. Having a cover reveal for my September release. If you're interested in revealing Love Undercover then sign up here. The more the merrier.

Have a great weekend.

Friday, 23 May 2014

Celebrating author friendship

Vikki at Scribblings of an Aspiring Author has started a meme where every Friday we post what we're celebrating for the week. Thanks Vikki. It's not too late to sign up if you're interested.



So much to celebrate this week, but I'll keep it brief.


Celestine, myself, and Empi. 
I met with two fabulous women this week. Eating, laughter, gossip about books and poetry (and men, but shhh about that) ensued. 

I've been bragging about Empi Baryeh's books: Most Eligible Bachelor and Chancing Faith since I first read them. 

And the great poet and author of a novel which will take the world by storm when it's published, writer of the awesome blog, Reading Pleasure, Celestine Nudana.

I had a lovely review on Love Books? Blog Books!  and the United Indie Book Blog this week. My blog tour with Love Bites and Silk is keeping me busy, but I love it.

If you can't get enough of me, catch me on Linda Carroll-Bradd's blog today.

What are you celebrating?

Friday, 16 May 2014

Celebrate!


Vikki at Scribblings of an Aspiring Author has started a meme where every Friday we post what we're celebrating for the week. Thanks Vikki. It's not too late to sign up if you're interested.

This week flew by. Since I'm on vacation, I am not celebrating that.


I will celebrate getting my first royalty check from Midwife to Destiny. Cash is always good.

What are you celebrating?

Friday, 9 May 2014

Celebrate!




Vikki at Scribblings of an Aspiring Author has started a meme where every Friday we post what we're celebrating for the week. Thanks Vikki. It's not too late to sign up if you're interested.

Happy Friday everyone. If making it through the week isn't something to celebrate then I don't know what is.



  • Yesterday I ate plums for the first time in eight years. They were so good. Perfect in texture and sweetness. Chocolate was not to be outdone by fruit. I had a slice of chocolate mousse cake that had me slapping the table. 
  • My blog tour is chugging on nicely.
  • Prah and Constantine Reviews had a badge made. Isn't it cute? Love Bites and Silk does great work.

  • I finished reading a great book, Compromising Miss Tisdale by Jessica Jefferson.  Look for the review tomorrow (or Sunday if I'm feeling lazy).
Have a great weekend everyone.

Friday, 14 March 2014

Celebrate the small things

Vikki at Scribblings of an Aspiring Author has started a meme where every Friday we post what we're celebrating for the week. Thanks Vikki. It's not too late to sign up if you're interested.

This was a fabulous week.
1. My coworkers and clients keep me laughing all the day long. I love laughing.

2. Work wasn't all that busy this week (hence the time for laughter).

3. I travelled to Accra over the weekend and hung out with my best friend and her kids (love em). More laughter ensued. She finished my book, Love Through Time and kept telling me how much she liked it.

4. My uncle has been in the country for about two months and I finally got to see him on Sunday. Such a wonderful man.

5. You know those marshmallow, cookies covered with chocolate, I think they're called moon-pies in the US? Yup, I ate some of them.

6. I'm sharing my new mantra with the world, "Midwife to Destiny is #71 on the Amazon Bestseller List." Yeah I claim it, so it is.

Friday, 28 February 2014

Celebrate the Small Things

Vikki at Scribblings of an Aspiring Author has started a meme where every Friday we post what we're celebrating for the week. Thanks Vikki. It's not too late to sign up if you're interested.

  • This week I am obviously celebrating the release of my second novel, Midwife to Destiny. I'm giving away a $20 Amazon gift card so feel free to participate.
  • Yesterday, Zee Monodee had me on her blog. The post made me so happy. You have to check out the post.
  • Work was busy so the time flew by.
  • Authors and bloggers, are fabulous people. So helpful. If the world consisted of just us, it would be a more positive, giving, and loving place to be. Now to get everyone else on board. Perhaps everyone should become an author.
Blurb

Ghanaian nurse Aurora ‘Ora’ Aikins never expected to find the love of her life while on vacation in South Africa. Engaged to another and believing that love has no place in her life, she returns to Ghana, and puts duty and honor first.

Three years later, Dr. Jason Lartey still can’t get Ora out of his mind or his heart. After learning she never married, he takes a risk and moves to Ghana hoping to rekindle what they started. His sudden appearance in Ora’s Emergency Department sends sparks flying all over again.


They’re in the same country, working in the same hospital, and together but distance creeps between them. Can they make their destined love one for the ages?  



Friday, 4 October 2013

Celebrate!

Vikki at Scribblings of an Aspiring Author has started a meme where every Friday we post what we are celebrating for the week. Thanks Vikki.


This post is being done on the fly. It's been a busy week. This week I'm celebrating: learning, friendship, and great books. All make me smile like a bleeping idiot.

Have a wonderful week everyone.

Check out what the other bloggers are celebrating.