Guest Author Kae Elle Wheeler.
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NOTE:::: The free books mentioned were for Saturday only. Please enjoy the post, however. They are great books… Kathy L Wheeler
klw: Look who’s come to visit! I love having visitors ( I’m soooooo antisocial that way —- NOT). It’s Jannine. She’s here to share the first book she wrote and tell us how life was different in the 80s.
jg: Thanks for having me on your blog today, Kathy. It’s a pleasure to visit!
In the summer of 2010, I answered a submission call for a brand new series from The Wild Rose Press called the Class of ’85. Did I stop at just one book? Oh no! I wrote three because I was hooked. Having graduated from college in 1984, my youth was spent during that era. It was a blast writing about characters who had the same memories I did.
Today is the final day that five books from this terrific, multi-author series are free, including the first one I wrote, Lonely Road To You. To celebrate, I’m taking a trip back to the past and reliving those years. Good heavens, a lot has changed.
My girls are teenagers now, and the angst over friends and clothes and boys is still the same. The biggest differences I see are caused by technology. Remember dragging the super long phone cord into a closet just to get a little privacy? Now kids don’t even talk. They text. When I was in the car the other day with my daughter, I suggested making plans with her friend would be a whole lot simpler if they actually spoke to each other instead of texting. All I got for a response was an eye-roll. Remember those library stacks and hunting through millions of books for the one you needed for your term paper? I’m not certain my daughters would even know how to do research in an actual book. “That’s what the internet is for, Mom,” is the standard response. And how did you write those term papers? If you’re like me, it was on a typewriter with lots of white-out. How did we live without computers? How did people write books and make revisions without a Word program? Maybe editing is much more fine-tuned now because it’s easy. Something to think about.
My hero and heroine in Lonely Road To You didn’t communicate at all when they were in high school together. He was the cool, bad boy who became a rock star. She was the shy, new girl who worked on the school paper. When they meet again on a cross-country road trip to their 25 year high school reunion, both are surprised by the changes they find.
As I mentioned, five books from the series are free. Just click on the titles to be taken directly to the Amazon download link!
Lonely Road To You by Jannine Gallant
To Be, Or Not by Margo Hoornstra
Promises, Promises by Silver James
Embraceable You by Kat Henry Doran
Something More by Keena Kincaid
So, is life better with iPhones and iPods? Or was a world lacking all the latest high tech devices a better place to grown up? Weigh in on the debate!
For information on all my books, including two more in the Class of ’85 series, check out my website. Or, follow me on Facebook and Twitter.
Summer is here! Today is the Solstice, the longest day of 2013. We invite you to join us for a Summer Supper and we’re pleased to share our picks of Summer Reads along with our great picnic. So have a Blackberry Gin and Tonic with your appetite. The salads are served over at Jan, Vonnie, and Alicia’s sites. Come back for a Pomegranate martini, before tasting the entrees and deserts. There’s something for everyone. Kick back and enjoy an except of Quotable while your at it. And for a list of the full list of ingredients and summer reads, head on back to visit Linda Joyce
Summer Solstice Supper Menu
| Cocktails | |
| Blackberry Gin and Tonic | J.K. O’Hanlon |
| Oprah’s Pomegranate Martini | Kathy L Wheeler |
| Appetizer | |
| Japanese Chicken Wings | Jan Morrill |
| Sweet and Sour Hawaiian Meatballs | Vonnie Davis |
| Easy Stuffed Mushrooms | Alicia Dean |
| Salad | |
| 7 Layer Salad | AJ Nuest |
| Mandarin orange and spinach salad | Barbara Barrett |
| Entrée | |
| Gluten free Slow cooker Chicken Marsala | Nancy Parra |
| Taquitos | Calisa Rhose |
| Linda’s Summer Shrimp Boil | Linda Joyce |
| Oven baked peach chicken | Juli D. Revezzo |
| Betty’s Nutty Pork Chops | Betty Bolte |
| Dessert | |
| Kolaches | Gina Hooten Popp |
| Chocolate-Cherry-Coconut Cupcakes | Luna Zega |
| Fruit Compote | Brenda Sparks |
| After Dinner Drinks | |
| After Dinner Iced Coffee | Sandra Sookoo |
Pomegranate Martini
Servings: Serves 2
Pomegranate Martini
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups pomegranate juice
- 2 ounces Absolute Citron vodka or white tequila
- 1 ounce Cointreau liquor
- Cup of ice
- Splash of sparkling water (optional)
- Squeeze of lemon (optional)
Directions: Shake ingredients in a shaker and put in chilled martini glasses. Put pomegranate fruit into glass as garnish.
Read more: http://www.oprah.com/food/Oprahs-Pomegranate-Martini#ixzz2W0siWY6b
Resource: http://www.oprah.com/food/Oprahs-Pomegranate-Martini
Another Summer Read:
Blurb: GENNA LYNDSEY is not a people person. A short, too-skinny, wild haired waif, with crazy hair and sturdy nerdy glasses lives through books. So it’s lucky she and her best friend own their own bookstore. Her
Quotable
college days taught her that dating was too unreliable to depend on others. It was then that she started resorting to obscure quotes to shield herself from others who ventured too close.
RICK JOHNSON, Fraud Insurance Claims Investigator, is assigned to look into an unusual number of claims filed by Genna Lyndsey. He suspects Genna of sabotaging her own property for insurance money. His investigation uncovers an adorable introvert determined to keep everyone at bay, while someone else resolves to put her out of business—no matter how great the risk.
Excerpt:
Without so much as a second thought, he moved his mouth over hers in slow deliberation allowing her almost ample time to step back should she have wished. It didn’t matter that the door was to her back and she had nowhere to step back to.
Definitely, the wild honeysuckle drove him wild with desire. Just the feeling of her timorous nature kept him from devouring her outright, tempting as it was. His tongue touched her lips in a feathery motion drinking in her sweetness. He pulled her to him, her slight body leaning into his.
A sharp pain hit his leg. He grunted and broke the kiss, making the break as painful as the pain in his leg. He glanced down. She’d dropped everything she’d been holding, her hands clutching the front of his shirt. Her cheeks were flushed. With hunger? Need?
She seemed at a loss as to what to do next. He stifled an urge to smile, irritation dissolving for the moment.
He grasped her hands gently, surprised by the rising desire to safeguard her. Resisting the appeal to reclaim her mouth, he tugged them from his shirt. Kneeling down, he gathered the spilled belongings. Just as he suspected, he’d been besieged with books. ~~~Kathy L Wheeler
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