D.L. Jackson brings sweet treats to the party

Cate: D.L. Jackson’s here today for my special Halloween celebration. D.L., please tell us a little bit about yourself.

D.L.: I’m an Army vet, which influences a lot of my romances. I write military, contemporary, paranormal, dystopian and science fiction romance and erotic romance. I’ve been writing for about ten years and published my first story about nine years ago.

Cate: Very cool. What do you love most about Halloween?

D.L.: The costumes, the trick-or-treaters and the spooky factor. Love the scary shows this time of year.

Cate: So fun, isn't it? Do you have a favorite memory of a Halloween past?

D.L.: My mother used to always make our costumes, would spend hours sewing them. We had the coolest costumes, so when I had children of my own, I did the same. My favorites were the tin man and scare crow from the Wizard of Oz and a gold lame dragon.

Cate: Wow, that's amazing. Have you ever had an unusual experience you couldn’t explain?

D.L.: Unusual, yes. Unexplained? No. I believe in ghosts and spirits so to me they’re not a mystery.

Cate: What frightens you the most?

D.L.: Sociopaths. The fact that in your lifetime, an average of 680k murders will take place in the United States, even more scary, you will more than likely walk past at least one of these killers, or worse, have an encounter with one.

Cate: Ever gone on a ghost tour? Or ghost hunting on your own?

D.L.: Yes. My brother has the creepy hobby of photographing haunted sites and likes to drag me along when I’m home. Some of the images we’ve downloaded from the camera after visiting, are downright chilling. Not there when we snapped them.

Cate: Oh, I'd love to see those! :) Now for the real goodies! Please tell us about your latest release, and where readers can find it online.

D.L.: My latest release is called Waking Beauty, a F/F 1Night Stand story.

Best place to get it is Amazon, but you can also pick it up at any major retailer or eBooks.

Cate: Care to share a blurb or excerpt?

D.L.: Here you go.

Blurb: Once upon a time, a beautiful combat helicopter pilot crashed to the earth. For weeks she lies sleeping, waiting for her princess to wake her from her slumber.

Chris Carlson, her heroine and a shy school teacher, comes to her rescue, by contacting Madame Eve to make all her dreams come true. Little does she know, the one magical kiss that wakes beauty will also start a snowball reaction, one which will change her life forever.

Sometimes, life’s greatest challenges also bring the biggest blessings, and when you walk through fire, it makes you appreciate what you fought for so much more.

Chris is about to step into an inferno.

Cate: What inspired you to write about the theme?

D.L.: I think love stories come in all shapes and sizes, and from different backgrounds, including the military tales. I really wanted to tell the story of two women, who beat the odds to discover true love was waiting at the end of their trials.

Cate: Love it. Anything else you’d like to share?

D.L.: Thank you for having me.

Cate: Oo, readers, D.L. has a treat for you!

D.L.: To celebrate, I’ll give away a $10.00 Gift Certificate to Amazon to one lucky commenter on this post. I will draw a winner on Halloween and announce on the post. Be sure to leave an email so I can contact you if I should pull your name from the hat.

The 1NS celebration continues with Arlene Webb

Arlene Webb is another fantastic and versatile writer. Her characters are so vivid, they practically leap off the page. I'm happy to have her here for the Decadent 1NS event. Check out more about Arlene at her blog: http://arlenewebb.blogspot.com/

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Secrets:
Joan not only knows how to keep them, she hoards information. After all, blurting truths could prolong her life and that’s not something she’s willing to allow.
As a renowned journalist, exposing lies is Wesley’s job, but being honest extends to revealing his own agenda as well. He admits on the application he’s been asked to write a story kicking up any dirt he can on Madam Evangeline’s dating service.
Desires:
Joan has a reputation to uphold. Labeled a promiscuous monster, authorities shouldn’t be surprised her offer to finally tell them where the skeletons are comes at a price. One date, one night, one final fling.
Wesley doesn’t need one date, one night, a simple fling. Women eyeball him all the time. He knows some hookup service can’t find him his heart’s desire, a sweetheart to cherish for a long and committed lifespan, but he won’t make it a slam-dunk for them by saying otherwise.
Warning Notice:
If secrets stay buried and desire is feared instead of embraced, electricity will flow and not in a good way.

 

About Arlene

Sci-fi, paranormal, suspense, indefinable, Arlene Webb is an author who adds sweet and spicy layers of romance.
She was born in upstate New York, land of cows, snow, drizzle and sometimes a ray of sun. Second oldest with four siblings, she spent childhood reading everything she could get her hands on. Adolescence found her questioning the validity of everything she read, along with acquiring the usual scars of high school.
Early twenties, she headed for the Pacific. A stop off to visit a friend turned into years in Tucson, Arizona. Arlene worked as a waitress, bartender, greenhouse worker, greyhound trainer, while swapping a pysch major for one in plant sciences at the University of Arizona. Fired for skipping employee meetings at restaurants, employee gambling at the dogtrack, refusing to use live rabbits as bait, it fell to planting cacti and bartending to pay her way through college.
Arlene’s late twenties found her running family owned greenhouses and florist shops in New York. When the reality of retail life became too mundane to handle, she began an obsessive love of creating more interesting worlds.

 

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Barbara Elsborg's got just what you want!

Barbara Elsborg's here to help celebrate Decadent Publishing's 1NS event. You lucky readers have a chance to win one of Barb's 1NS stories! It's no secret I love all her work. You will too. Find out more about Barb at her website or blog:

www.barbaraelsborg.com
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How I love this cover - let me count the ways - or the feet! I'm thrilled to be part of Decadent Publishing's fabulous INS series. This is one of my two stories in the series. 

Just What She Wants

With a name like hers, Indiana Jones knows she ought to be adventurous and daring but when she’s tricked into taking a vacation on her own, and discovers she’s staying at a swinging resort, she wants to spend the week in her room. But the place is run by two of the most tempting men she’s ever seen. She could have just what she wants and no one would ever know.

Marc finds it hard to see his partner Kyle in physical and mental anguish but if the guy won’t talk about it, what can he do? Finding a third might be the answer and he has just the woman in mind, unless she runs off before he can make her smile.

Crippled and depressed, Kyle can’t even kiss his partner and wonders why the guy puts up with him. If only he could let the past go and move on. Maybe, just maybe, an intriguing guest will show him the way.

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About Barbara

Barbara Elsborg lives in West Yorkshire in the north of England. She always wanted to be a spy, but having confessed that to everyone without them even resorting to torture, she decided it was not for her. Vulcanology scorched her feet. A morbid fear of sharks put paid to marine biology. So instead, she spent several years successfully selling cyanide. After dragging up two rotten, ungrateful children and frustrating her sexy, devoted, wonderful husband (who can now stop twisting her arm) she finally has time to conduct an affair with an electrifying plugged-in male, her laptop.
Her books feature quirky heroines and bad boys, and she hopes they are much fun to read as they were to write. Visit her:
http://www.barbaraelsborg.com/
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https://www.facebook.com/barbara.elsborg

Giveaway!

Barbara's offering a free ecopy of this 1NS story to a commenter. Tell her where you'd like to go on a vacation!

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Celebrate Decadent Publishing's 200th INS story!

Hard to believe, but after only two years, Decadent Publishing will release its 200th story in its very popular 1NS series.
What story will be the 200th release? It's a mystery for now. But Decadent's having a weeklong party, and you're invited!
I'll be hosting some wonderful 1NS authors, so be sure to visit this week to learn more about their stories.
Enter here (soon) for a chance to win some fantastic Decadent giveaways:

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Be my Halloween guest!

After the Decadent 1NS celebration has ended on Oct. 20, I'd love to host some Halloween guests. If you're the author of a paranormal, that would work best, but everyone's welcome! Just shoot me an email at cate.masters AT gmail.com.

Revised and re-released

My fun fantasy, Romancing the Hero, is now available from Smashwords and Amazon. It was great to revisit this story, first released by The Wild Rose Press in 2011. It felt like being with old friends again. But now the story has a new twist. I hope you'll check it out!

Jody Feather’s tired of only writing about romance...

Readers love her delectable hero, Jake Emerson. He’s the kind of man who knows exactly how to please a woman. The kind of man who doesn’t exist. Jody’s too busy writing about delicious heroes to find one of her own. And never expects one to find her.

Jake Emerson to the rescue...

When a man shows up on her doorstep claiming to be Jake Emerson, this would-be hero is everything Jody imagined him to be. Bonus—he brings out her forgotten flirty side, and makes her feel worthy of love again. She stops doubting his story, but does believing in Jake mean she’s lost her sanity? Or will it mean losing him for real?

I've also re-released my novel, The Bridge Between. For now, I've made it available for free from Smashwords (coming soon to Amazon). I've moved it under my other pen name, C.A. Masterson, because while it has some romantic elements, it's a mainstream novel. It's set in my hometown of Lambertville, N.J. The cover's a photo I took a few years back of the bridge between Lambertville and New Hope. If you download it, I hope you'll leave a review!

Addictions come in many forms, Jessie Moore learns—including relationships.
Working at the fledgling Philly Times newspaper with reporter Matt Cleary proves draining after their breakup. When a longtime friend dies of AIDS, she reconnects with her first love, Billy Black, who becomes a bridge back to the safety of her old life, and also to the origins of her artistic inspiration. But Billy drowns his worries in beer, threatening to drag her down too. After she rekindles their affair, Matt’s jealousy confuses her. Before she can truly give herself to anyone, can Jessie learn to be true to herself?

And as of today, my Christmas fantasy, Ground Rules, is now re-released on Smashwords. At this time, it's still chugging away on Amazon, but should be there tomorrow. I'll update the links on the Ground Rules page as they come available.

Can a bad boy angel and a dispirited mortal find a Christmas miracle together?

Luke, newly promoted to Watcher Angel, has been watching one human too closely—Alice. Unfortunately, she’s his latest assignment. Good thing the ground rules forbid getting involved with a human.

Alice Garner scores a great contract to illustrate a children’s book by a famous author, but lack of inspiration forces her to cancel her holiday plans. Alone on Christmas to meet her looming deadline, Alice wishes on her treetop angel for help. She wasn’t expecting an angel to answer, especially one as surly as Luke.

As they try to restore Christmas cheer to another, Luke brings Alice more than inspiration. He reawakens her heart. Now Alice has to convince him he’s her greatest wish. With a little Christmas magic, can she convince him to break the ground rules and stay?

Whew! That's three out of four of the stories whose rights were returned to me. Done, yay! And I love them so much more now. I hope you will too. :)