Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Win books and an Amazon voucher...

Just a quick post to let you all know that I have a competition running at Fresh Fiction from 18 March to 9 April.

There's a  chance to win a copy of Anything But Vanilla (paper or ebook download of your choice), an Amazon gift voucher and a copy of David Lebovitz's "The Perfect Scoop" - lots of recipes to makes your own ice cream!

To enter, click here

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Kindle Freebie from Soraya Lane

Love a cowboy? Soraya Lane's latest is free on Kindle today so don't waste a minute - download this fabulous author's latest release - Rescued by a Rancher...

Here's the blurb -

Can anyone heal this rugged rancher’s broken heart?

Volunteer firefighter Jake McGregor can’t believe it when he arrives to the scene of a burning house, and finds out that someone in his small town has committed arson. When he looks into the frightened eyes of Faith Walker, he can’t imagine who would want to hurt her or her son, so why was the fire intentionally lit?

Faith has only been back in town a week, and already she’s wishing she’d never returned. Until handsome cowboy Jake rescues her and invites her to stay at his ranch, her old home town has been nothing short of unwelcoming. When she was sent away years ago, as a teenager and pregnant, she had hoped to never come back. Her dad turned his back on her, and she'd learned to fend for herself – the hard way.

Jake doesn’t particularly want a woman in his life, but he can’t turn Faith away. He’s been a bachelor since his fiancée died in a car crash five years before, and that’s how he wants to stay. Even if staying away from Faith starts to feel like the hardest task he’s ever endured…

Click here to download free...

Monday, March 18, 2013

It all started with a Kiss



Have you see the new Kiss titles that were launched in February and have been hitting the top sales spot at Harlequin regularly ever since?

This is a new, fun, flirty, sensual and sexy series launched in the US.


What Publishers Weekly said about Kelly Hunter's launch title, The One That Got Away...

"Hunter launches Harlequin's Kiss contemporary romance imprint with an emotionally powerful and beautifully rendered love story... Readers who thrive on empowered woman and dangerous men will relish this carfefully craft, intense romance with a modern, relevant voice, which sets a very high bar for the Kiss line."

And readers agree...

"It has been twenty years since I read a Harlequin romance. But something about the cover, the description and the fact that Mira Lyn Kelly is a USA TODAY bestselling author intrigued me. And I am so glad it did. My reintroduction to Harlequin could not have been better. I read all 224 pages in oen day and am happily looking forward to reading mynext KISS collection book.!

"Waksing Up Married isthe perfect combination of new romance, angst, flirtiness and sex (not so much it makes me blush but not so little it left me wondering.)"

"If you love romance with just a little bit of sex and love and ... then, this is for you."

"I really like this book. The characters were likeable with a great sense of humor. I was definitely drawn in from the first page. It was a refreshing, light read. My only regret is that it ended so soon and I would have liked more."


Want to try the series for free? Download a copy of of Mira Lyn Kelly's Waking Up Married at  

Friday, March 15, 2013

Nicola Marsh's Brash

Writing buddy Nicola Marsh has just launched her steamingly hot new novella, BRASH and I'm thrilled to give you a sneak peak of the cover and blurb -


Jess Harper is so tired of being good…

Thrust into the dazzle of Burlesque Bombshells, Vegas’s premier dance venue, the small town librarian has no option but to embrace her inner vixen. Especially when blast from her past, sexy Aussie celebrity chef Jack McVeigh is still determined to keep their relationship strictly hands-off.

This time Jess isn’t surrendering without a fight and armed with her hot props and Bombshell moves, Jack doesn’t stand a chance.

When Jess and Jack are sequestered on an island to orchestrate the burlesque wedding of the year, sun, surf and sizzling sex are on the menu! But will the fiery couple come back for seconds?


To read on click…

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Wednesday Worldwide...


 Trzy siostry Claibourne zarządzają luksusowym domem towarowym Claibourne & Farraday w centrum Londynu. Przebojowe i piękne, Romana, Flora i India, przez kilka lat pomagały ojcu w prowadzeniu biznesu, dlatego bez trudu dają sobie radę.
Niestety, w wyniku dawnej umowy nadchodzi czas, gdy spadkobiercy drugiego założyciela mają stanąć na czele firmy.
Trzej bracia Farraday, Niall, Bram i Jordan, zrobią wszystko, by przejąć pełną kontrolę nad znaną marką.
Zaczyna się fascynująca gra o wpływy, której finał zaskoczy wszystkich.


 Boardroom Bridegrooms in Polish



Die junge Journalistin Laura braucht eine richtig gute Story! Obwohl sie Adelige nicht leiden kann, lädt sie Prinz Alexander Orsino ein, an ihrer Seite das bürgerliche Leben kennenzulernen. Bei Tag und bei Nacht. Dabei schmelzen nicht nur Lauras (…)
 
The Ordinary Princess in German

Sunday, March 10, 2013

Mothering Sunday

 It's Mothering Sunday here in the UK. Our Mother's Day. This isn't the Hallmark event, but a tradition that goes back to the times when, on the fourth Sunday in Lent, servant girls were given the afternoon off to visit their mothers.

They took them a Simnel cake - spicy, topped with marzipan - and picked wild flowers on the way.



 


All over the British Isles we will be visiting,
or remembering our mothers today.


HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

Friday, March 08, 2013

First Page Friday - The Proud Wife

My First Page Friday guest today is not only a colleague, but a dear friend who has been writing wonderful books for Harlequin for more than twenty years. The Proud Wife isn't her latest, but has that special, original, Kate Walker touch so I wanted to share it with you.

Here's the blurb -

Her husband wants her back!
Marina thought her dreams had come true when her husband placed a wedding band on her finger. But their marriage was not the fairytale she'd hoped for, and eventually Marina walked away, her heart broken.
But two years on Pietro DInzeo no longer haunts Marina's dreams. She knows the time has come to move on, and even a summons to join him in Sicily won't deter her However, with his wife standing before him, about to sign on the dotted line of their divorce papers, Pietro wonders why he ever let her go?

And here's the first page -

THE letter lay exactly where he had left it last night, right in the centre of his desk. The single sheet of paper was aligned carefully square, in the centre of the polished oak, straight in front of his chair where it could not possibly be missed. All it needed was his signature and it would be folded neatly, placed the already addressed envelope and sent on its way. 
            And after that there would be no turning back.
            But until he made the final move, added the swift, determined scrawl of his signature – the work of just a couple of seconds – nothing at all would happen. It would just lie there,  untouched, until he was ready.
Of course it would, Pietro told himself, his mouth twisting slightly wryly at the corners. He hadn’t spent almost half his lifetime building up the sort of  retinue of employees that any man would envy. The staff who would not only obey his every command but anticipate it perfectly, knowing exactly what he wanted and when. They would remain poised, waiting, until he would give the word to act. Then  - and only then – would they carry out his instructions to the peak of perfection he had come to expect so much that he no longer even noticed it was there – only coming up against the system that created it when something went wrong. Which happened so rarely that he couldn’t actually recall the last time it had ever ruffled the controlled surface of his world.
He would never allow it to happen.  Lack of control, the wildness of emotion, brought confusion and chaos with it. Confusion and chaos of the sort that he never ever wanted to experience again.
Dannazione!’
The curse was torn from him, the flat of his hand slamming  down on the polished surface of his desk so that the letter lifted slightly in the air current it created, fluttered,  shifted, landing back down again an inch or two further left before lying still again.
He had known the sort of chaos that could be created by lack of control. Once, just once, he had been fool enough to let that sort of wildness invade his life and take with it the organisation and the rule of rational thought he valued so deeply. He had loosened his grip on the reins and lost control. And he had hated the results.
Just once had been enough.
Just once. Never again. And it had all been this woman’s fault.
To read on click here for Amazon US or here for Amazon UK

Monday, March 04, 2013

Webpage Design

I've just started the massive job of giving my website a "new look". And not before time I hear you all say.

I have to get it right because it will go across all my social media, tell the world what you can expect from the Liz Fielding experience, the feel of my books.k

So far, I've found a couple of images that I like and my lovely webmistress has mocked up what they'd look like and now I'd love some feedback from you - the lovely people who come here and visit with me, since you're the ones who'll be looking at it.
 
Denim

Red

Neither of these is finished - there will be a background to the red one - and the images are a bit fuzzy because they are comp downloads of the pictures not the full size versions. The voting poll is at the top of the sidebar. All feedback gratefully received!