The Oil Tycoon and Her Sexy Sheikh By Ros Clarke Book Review and Interview

His duty, her dreams, undone by their desire...

In the male-dominated oil industry, executive Olivia McInnes plays a careful game - she's cold, uncompromising, and ambitious as hell. Once she seals the deal to drill in the clear waters of Saqat, she'll finally prove herself worthy to take the reins of her father's oil company. Her only obstacle is marine biologist - and Saqat's royal heir - Sheikh Khaled Ibm Saqat al Mayim, who's determined to protect both his people and his country from environmental devastation...

It's not long before Olivia's icy cool exterior is shattered by the intelligent and wickedly hot sheikh, and business is surpassed by sweet, stolen pleasures. But outside the bedroom, there's reality to be faced. Soon Khaled must return to his obligations - and his betrothed - in Saqat.

Caught between duty and ambition, can an oil tycoon and a sexy sheikh find room for love... or will this business deal spell disaster for them both?

MY REVIEW

5 OF 5 OIL RIGS 

Okay I have to say I am a sucker for romance stories and ENTANGLED has cornered the market with their romance stories.TOTAHSS is one of those books that you share with your girlfriends as a must read because it is a great love story. Sometimes people find love in the last place they expect to and in this case it is two people trying to prove something to someone and they end up falling in love.

Olivia is out to prove to her father that she can do a mans job. She will run the family business and bring in profits better than any man can. She will sacrifice her love life and friendships to make sure her father can see her as an equal. Then she is given a chance to prove her worthiness to her father but there is a catch to that. She will have to get the contract of a lifetime and the person she has to get it from may be a bigger problem then she anticipated. What will Olivia do? Will she be able to land that account that she so needs? Will she find out what true love is? Will she sacrifice it all in the end?

Khaled is a Sheikh who will do anything for his people. When his people want oil he is willing to meet with Olivia to see if there is a way to provide the oil to his people without hurting them and the environment. See Khaled loves the environment and wants to protect it at any cost. When he meets Olivia sparks fly between them but he is a jerk at first offering her only one night because he is to marry someone from his tribe. It becomes apparent that one night is just not enough for him and he struggles with his feelings. What will he do? Will he give in to his feelings for Olivia? Will he allow the oil to be used? Will he go against what has been instilled in him to pursue true love?

I really loved this story and I can't wait to read more from Ros Clarke.

INTERVIEW WITH ROS CLARKE

Ros thank you for stopping by Kaidans Seduction today. We are so happy to have you here. I have to tell that Entangled never ceases to amaze me with the books they are publishing. I love each and every one they have come out with. You authors have blessed us with such great stories and SUPER SWOON WORTHY MEN!

Aw, thank you! I’m so happy to be with Entangled, and happy to be here at Kaidan’s Seduction today.

What inspired you to write The Oil Tycoon and Her Sexy Sheikh?

Oddly enough, I was inspired by the events of the Arab Spring last year. It made me realise just how much more interesting the real Middle East is, compared to the fictional versions of it we so often see in romance novels. I always love a sheikh story, but I wanted to see if I could write one in a much more contemporary way. Oil is obviously a huge issue in the Middle East and that gave me the basis for the plot of the book.

Have you ever been to the Middle East?

Never. I’m not much of a traveller, to be honest. I’ve had lots of friends who have lived in Eastern countries, either as expats or citizens. But mostly I did my research online.

If you could describe Olivia and The Sheikh in one song what would it be and why?

I don’t really listen to a lot of music, I’m afraid. I know some authors have playlists and theme songs for each book, but I just don’t work that way. I guess if I were to pick a song, it might be the old classic, I Will Always Love You. It’s about letting go of someone, even though you love them, because you know that will be better for them. Both Olivia and Khaled are prepared to sacrifice their own happiness for the sake of the other – even if that means walking away.

Where is your favorite place to write?

I have a beautiful office out in my garden. It’s an old Shepherd’s Hut, and looks a bit like a gypsy caravan. I can sit at the desk and look out over the fields and let my imagination go.

Are you an e-reader or book person?

Both! I have, um, a lot of paper books. Way too many to fit in my tiny house, so I took the plunge and got an ereader a couple of years ago for practical reasons. I’ve been surprised just how much I like it, so these days I mostly buy books in digital format.

Do you have a favorite genre you read?

I mostly read contemporary and historical romances. I’m very shallow – I like books where the heroines get to wear gorgeous clothes and live in fabulous houses.

What is your next project you are working on?

I’m working on a couple of things at the moment. Another Indulgence, a short story and hopefully some historical romances. Watch this space!

Thank you so much again for stopping by Kaidans Seduction. The fans really appreciate it. We look forward to reading more from you soon.

Thanks for having me!

More details and an excerpt are available here.

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Ros is a writer, a student, a church worker, a crafter, a blogger, a twitterer, a lazy gardener, and an appalling housekeeper. She lives in a sixteenth century shed in England and is very glad that it has twenty-first century plumbing. She is interested in almost everything except cricket and football (US and UK) and mostly she likes happy endings in fiction and in real life.

Ros has been writing stories for as long as she can remember, never dreaming that other people would be interested in reading them. A few years ago, she discovered a writing forum on the internet, and has never looked back. Her head—and her hard drive—are full of ideas for fresh, fun, contemporary romances that she hopes you’ll love as much as she does.

You can find Ros on 

Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/ros_clarke

Goodreads http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5087303.Ros_Clarke

Website http://theoldshed.me/

Come and say hi!

Not The Marrying Kind By Nicola Marsh Blog Tour Stop

NOT THE MARRYING KIND BLURB:
Who said marriage had to be convenient?

LA party planner Poppy Collins has kept her side business—planning divorce parties as the Divorce Diva—under wraps, but keeping her sister's company afloat is proving tougher by the day. When a new divorce party prospect gives Poppy the opportunity to save the day and boost her bottom line, she can't pass it up. But this time, she's about to get way more than she bargained for…

Vegas golden boy Beck Blackwood knows Poppy's secret, and he's not afraid to use it to get exactly what he wants—a wife. With his reputation and corporate expansion plans on the line, the only way he can repair the damage is by getting hitched, and fast. And if blackmail is the only way to get Poppy to the altar, then so be it…

But they're in the city of high stakes, and Poppy has a few aces up her sleeve. Now it's time to find out if they're playing to win…or if they're playing for keeps.

MY REVIEW

5 OF 5 POPPIES

HOLY GORGEOUS BILLIONAIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Entangled has corner the market on Romances! Man oh man Nicola I LOVED LOVED this story so much that I read it in four hours!I have been reading a lot of romances and erotica and Entangled has the market on it right now! With all that rambling let me get right to the review.

Poppy Collins is a party planner when she decides to start her own Divorce Diva Party Planner Company. Why not right because everyone has a party for everything so why not have a party for divorces. She can make a lot of money having divorce parties but there is a catch. She will have to keep it a secret from her sister because she is going through a rough divorce and she would not approve of this side business Poppy has created. Poppy decides she will do Divorce Divas but keep her name anonymous and not tell her sister until they are out of debt. She receives her first client but he is anything but normal because he is a billionaire and he has done a background check on Poppy and the business and decides he wants to meet her in person even thought it against the rules.

Poppy does not want to meet this billionaire but in order to save her sisters failing business she will have to meet him and get the account. Only when Poppy meets Beck Blackwood playboy billionaire she is thrown for a loop. Beck is so enthralled with Poppy and her witty snarky attitude that matches his. He soon hatches a plan that he hopes Poppy will go along with. He tells her he needs a wife and she needs the money to save her sisters business. So she can be his wife so he can get the contract and then he will pay her to keep her sisters business running so it is a win win proposition except that Poppy is like HELL NO at first but then Beck used to getting his way blackmails Poppy and she agrees. But at what cost? Will Beck and Poppy get everything they hope to? Will Poppy save her sisters business? Will Beck get the big contract? Will true love come into play? Will broken hearts be in the picture?

Well to answer those questions you will have to read the book because I will give no spoilers away. I really loved this story and read it in 4 hours that is how good it is! Happy Reading and don't forget to check out the rest of Entangled's readshttp://www.entangledpublishing.com/

Link to excerpt: 

http://www.entangledpublishing.com/not-the-marrying-kind/

Buy links:

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INTERVIEW WITH NICOLA MARSH
Happy Saturday Everyone! I am so happy to announce today we are interviewing Nicola Marsh the author of Not The Marrying Kind. I have to say I am jumping up and down with excitement because I read Not The Marrying Kind in 4 hours because I could not out it down. So I was excited when Nicola agreed to be interviewed. I absolutely loved Beck and Poppy. It is a love story like no other and I am a big ole sap when it comes to romance. Thank you again Nicola for coming out on a summer Saturday. Enquiring minds want to know a few little things about our *SWOONY* man Beck and our *BEAUTIFUL* girl poppy.

Thanks for having me! I’m so thrilled you loved NOT THE MARRYING KIND. I kinda love this book too! I had an absolute ball writing it!

What was truly going through Becks mind when he first saw Poppy?

I probably shouldn’t swear here so I’ll settle for YOWZA!

At the wedding when they said I Do Poppy was thinking about something, what was it?

“What the heck am I doing here?”

When did Beck realize he was in love with Poppy?

After the time they spent together at his home in Red Rock Canyon. Maybe even a little before. The fact Poppy is the first person Beck has ever taken to his home? Speaks volumes.

When did Poppy realize she was in love with Beck?

Probably on that mountaintop when the notorious bad boy showed a true glimpse of his vulnerability.

When Beck and Poppy danced to their wedding song why did Poppy cry?

Perpetuating a sham is hard work and being held in Beck’s arms, being physically close to him when she desperately needed distance? Yeah, tear-jerking.

Can you give us readers an epilogue so we can see where Beck and Poppy are right now?

Ah…you’ll have to wait for the follow up story, NOT THE BLUSHING KIND, which is Ashlee’s tale. I’m pretty sure you’ll get loads more Beck and Poppy then.

Thank you so much Nicola for this wonderful story and I hope to read more from you. Thank you for stopping by Kaidans Seduction and sharing more Beck and Poppy Blackwood with us!

I’ve had fun, thanks again!

TRAILER FOR NOT THE MARRYING KIND

USA TODAY bestselling author Nicola Marsh writes flirty fiction with flair.

She’s had 32 books published with Harlequin Romance and Presents series, a fun, flirty contemporary mainstream romance BUSTED IN BOLLYWOOD with Entangled Publishing (nominated for Romantic Book of the Year 2012) and sold over 3 million copies worldwide.

Her first category romance for Entangled Publishing’s Indulgence series, NOT THE MARRYING KIND, releases July 2012, with another category contemporary romance FALLING FOR FLYNN releasing with Crimson Romance October 2012.

Her urban fantasy young adult novel SCION OF THE SUN releases November 2013 with Month9Books.

She’s also a Waldenbooks and Bookscan bestseller, has finaled in a number of awards, including the Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award, HOLT, Booksellers’ Best, Golden Quill, Laurel Wreath,

More than Magic and has won several CataRomance Reviewers’ Choice Awards.

A physiotherapist for thirteen years, she now adores writing full time, raising her two little heroes, sharing fine food with family and friends, and her favorite, curling up with a good book!

She loves interacting with readers so you can find her:

Website: www.nicolamarsh.com

Blog: www.nicolamarsh.blogspot.com


Facebook: www.facebook.com/NicolaMarshAuthor

Twitter: www.twitter.com/NicolaMarsh


Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/Nicola_Marsh

***** Cover Reveal ***** Flutter By Melissa Andrea

Sara

Sara's life is forever changed -
Waking up, buried & hidden deeply in the last place anyone would want to be, will do that. She is determined to find out how she ended up there & why, but when the only person who can help her, continuously lies to her, she finds herself forced to suffer alone. She can't ignore the strange things that begin to happen to her nor can she hide from the nightmares that haunt her sleep. And when her world collides with Adan - the mysterious boy whom she can't seem to stay away from, literally - she is consumed by the familiar flutter that sparks whenever he is around and she is desperate to discover the reason why.
But the biggest discovery will come from the secret of what she is…

Adan
Adan’s mission to find Sara has finally approached -
It seemed simple: bring her back to the enchanted world that lives, breathes and survives because of her, but he quickly finds himself faced with an entirely new challenge. Immediately, Adan realizes that staying unknown to Sara is a task he will fail before even attempting. The pull to her is far too strong to refuse, and being with her will defy the very reason he existed. He was the key to her survival and loving her was not part of the plan that he had been born to follow. Can he find it in himself too resist the urge to be with her and follow through with their destiny or will he destroy everything that had been left to Sara to protect and defend -
And the kingdom she is unaware she rules…

Flutter
As Sara and Adan struggle to overcome their own separate battles -
There is a far more determined evil that is stalking the shadows and waiting to annihilate them both.
Sara will figure out that not everything is what it seems and knowing what she can and can not trust will be the key to finding out the truth to what happened to her, the reason why she had been buried alive and who she really is…

Sara and Adan will discover the hidden meaning to why she was the reason he existed and why he would be the reason she survived & together they will fight to change the rules and rewrite their fate.

Discover the Meaning,
Discover the Secret,
Discover
Flutter
October 2012

Teasers:

I ached for him.
The more time that went by with no signs of letting go, the more I learned that guilt didn’t come with an expiration date. I had come to terms with the fact that this would be my permanent judgment and I was perfectly willing to carry out my sentence without any hope of getting off on good behavior.

“Are you trying to tell me you missed me??” he teased and I watched his eyes detonate into a frenzy of blue sparks.
“I missed you as much as you miss me.’ I countered.
His smile was slow and lazy as it spread across his face. “So a lot then??”

He laughed. “You sound like you’re in love with him.”
I looked over my shoulder towards the woods again and smiled softly. “I think I kinda am.”

"I tried to stay away from you Sara, I did, but that nearly killed me and I won't do it again. I can't." - Adan.

Melissa started reading in high school when she found her mom's romance book collection and has been hooked on books every since. She became a complete book-a-holic, starting her own collection and improving her reading skills. Most of the time she could finish a book walking around the store, while her mom shopped.

She wrote her first short story in high school for a competition in her writing class. It was a child's book called 'Arnold' - it was about an ant who believed he could do anything. Oh by the way, she won!

She has written many stories since then, but this will be her first YA paranormal/fantasy and the first book she will have published.

She lived in Mesa, Arizona with her husband of six years, and her 3 beautiful daughters. They are her biggest fans and they inspire her everyday. She enjoys spending time with her family, weekend dates with her mom & taking vacations. Hawaii anyone??

ADD THIS TO YOUR GOODREADS TBR LIST FOR OCTOBER 2012
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Secrets (Serenity Series Book One) By Dawn Kirby Blog Tour Stop

Secrets (Serenity Series #1)
Author: Dawn Kirby
Publisher: Dark Dragon Publishing (http://www.darkdragonpublishing.com/index.html)
Will Be Published: July 29, 2012
Format: Ebook and Paperback
 

Synopsis: 

It is said that the truth will set you free, but for Leah it kills.

Leah always knew she was different. From her extreme light sensitivity, to her ability to read people by their auric scent, she kept these differences secret.

Not even Mia, Leah's mother, knew the fullness of her daughter's differences, but she held even greater secrets to Leah's past - the truth about her father and Leah's conception.

With the escape of an old foe, Mia is too late to reveal to her daughter
the truth before Judith can exact her revenge in a wash of blood and death.

Thrown into a world unheard of, Leah discovers that she is not alone in keeping her secrets. That there are people from her parent's past who would die to protect her. If she only knew why.

Raine, placed as her protector, hides deadly secrets of his own. Drawn to each other, Leah and Raine must uncover the truth before one of both are killed.

Purchase

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The Publisher (http://darkdragonpublishing.com/secrets.html)

MY REVIEW
5 OF 5 SECRETS
I just want to give Illuminated Tours a HUGE THANK YOU for allowing me to be on this tour. Without them I would have never known about this book. Secrets is one of those books that needs more air time. I have to tell you I love my wolves and vampires so when I started to read a found that they were in this book I was jumping for joy. Secrets is a great title for this book to because there are so many secrets it is hard to keep up with them. At every turn I was like no way why would they do that.
Leah is a recent graduate from college working at her mothers store. She is happy and content but there is just one thing nagging Leah. She really wants to know who her father is. Her mother Mia keeps it a secret from her and Leah really just wants some answers. She knows she is different from others because she has these super senses and she can feel and taste things normal new adults can't.

Leah will soon find out that secrets have been kept from her and she will be in danger very soon. See her mother Mia forgot to tell her things or maybe she just thought it was not the right time but when the secrets come out Leah is in danger and must flee. When she does she meets Raine at the safe house she is staying. Raine is instantly enthralled by Leah and they begin building a friendship that will turn into a romance. But Raine has secrets to and he does not want them to get out. He really does care for Leah but he thinks his secrets will destroy what they just built up.

Raine helps Leah come to terms with her special powers and helps her accept them for what they are. Raine will protect Leah at any cost from the werewolves that want her dead. Raine will risk it all to protect the girl he loves. This is a NEW ADULT read meaning it is for 18 years and older. I really loved Secrets and I need the second book ASAP because the ending had me throwing the book across the room because I needed more! Dawn you did an excellent job on Secrets and congrats on the series!

About the Author: By day, Dawn is a typical mom running around after her children, catering to her husband’s needs, acting as a taxi driver, and gourmet chef living in Odessa, Texas, with her husband, and three children. Then by night she falls into a world filled with shirtless werewolves, lethal vampires, and dangerous adventures. 

Her short stories have been published in Seven Deadly Sins (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13517087-seven-deadly-sins) and 13 Tales of Paranormal (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12852482-13-tales-of-the-paranormal)

Author Blog: http://dawnmkirby.wordpress.com/

Author on Goodreads http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5268211.Dawn_Kirby

Author on Smashwords https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/DawnMKirby

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Secrets/302970983827

Twitter: http://twitter.com/secretswriter

LET'S MEET THE LOVE INTEREST LEAH HAS RAINE
A Glimpse into the Leading Man: Raine
Author Dawn Kirby gives readers an inside look into the character of Raine from Secrets.

I think we all have a “dream type”. The beauty of being a writer is that we can give that certain type; guy or gal, a kind of life. We can take all the characteristics we want and even some we might not, jumble them up and create that perfect “other”.

In my case it would be a man. And that man already has a name.

Meet Raine. My mysterious leading man. Six foot nine inches tall. All muscle and gorgeous beyond belief. Light brown, shoulder length hair you can run your fingers through all day long. Gorgeous blue-gray eyes that burn like lightening when he’s angry. Beautifully chiseled features. And best of all, he smells like rain.

Now all that doesn’t make him supernatural, but it does make him pretty darn irresistible. The supernatural part comes in the secrets he has to keep to stay alive. I can say he’s a werewolf, but that’s not all he is. The rest makes him one of a kind and very hard to turn your back on. If nothing else it makes you want to protect him more.

He doesn’t have an out going personality. In fact, he’s much more introverted than his older brother, Kale. That makes him cautious. That makes him hard to impress. Any feelings he has toward you, you can bet are completely genuine. He’d go through hell and back for the people he loves, but he needs to know they will do the same.

He also has a temper. Not that it’s a bad thing. I find a little hot-under-the-collar quite intriguing, but if it gets the most of him it consumes him. As a human he’s scary enough. As an animal he’s a force to be recocked with. Meeting him in a dark alley on a bad day would be hazardous to your health. If I were to say he had a weakness his temper would definitely be it.
            

He’s loving. Extremely loving. Everything he does is for his other half. Despite being strong enough to rip any enemy apart in her defense, he fights with her. They are equals. He never makes her feel inadequate and he never misses a chance to show her how he feels about her. What woman could ever resist that?

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Flight The Crescent Chronicles Book One By Alyssa Rose Ivy Blog Tour Stop

Title: Flight
Series: The Crescent Chronicles, #1
Author: Alyssa Rose Ivy
Genre: Mature YA/New Adult Paranormal Romance,
Publisher: self-published
Ebook
Words: 55,000

Purchase:
Amazon (Kindle) | B&N (Nook) | Smashwords |

Book Description:

Sometimes you just have to take flight.

A summer in New Orleans is exactly what Allie needs before starting college. Accepting her dad’s invitation to work at his hotel offers an escape from her ex-boyfriend and the chance to spend the summer with her best friend. Meeting a guy is the last thing on her mind—until she sees Levi.

Unable to resist the infuriating yet alluring Levi, Allie finds herself at the center of a supernatural society and forced to decide between following the path she has always trusted or saving a city that might just save her.

Excerpt:

Closing my eyes, I tried to block it all out. Convinced I was about to die, I was only partly aware of his arms around me.

“You said you wanted an adventure,” he said quietly, teasingly, as he tightened his hold.

My stomach dropped out as an intense and complete feeling of weightlessness engulfed me. The wind stung my face as memories flooded my mind. I thought of my parents, of all the things I wanted to tell them but never did, my friends from home, and the experiences I longed for. Quickly my thoughts changed to more recent memories, to Levi.

“Open your eyes,” he whispered, somehow knowing my eyes were clenched shut.

Against my better judgment, I listened. The scream died in my throat as we hurtled toward the water that had seemed so beautiful from the roof above.

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Alyssa Rose Ivy lives in North Carolina with her husband and two young children. Although raised in the New York area, she fell in love with the South after moving to New Orleans for college. After years as a perpetual student, she turned back to her creative side and decided to write.

Find the Author:
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It Only Takes One Click Blog Tour ***Send by Patty Blount ***

***ALL IT TAKES IS JUST ONE CLICK TO RUIN A LIFE***

To keep his secrets, all he has to do is listen to the voice in his head and just walk away...
On his first day at his new high school, Dan stops a bully from beating up a kid half his size. He didn't want to get involved. All he wants out of his senior year is to fly under the radar. But Dan knows what it's like to be terrorized by a bully-he used to be one. Now the whole school thinks he's some kind of hero, except Julie Murphy, the prettiest girl on campus. She looks at him like she knows he has a secret. Like she knows his name isn't really Daniel.

MY REVIEW

5 OF 5 CLICKS TOTALLY EPIC READ

Send is one of those gripping stories that will stay with you long after you have finished reading it. Send is a story that can happen to anyone anywhere. Kids now a days have no idea what their words can do to others. They have no idea what their actions will cause others to do. In Send we get to see first hand what bullying can do to someone. It not only affects the bullied person and family but the bully and their family.

In Send we get to meet Kenny who is a 13 year old boy. He loves sports and school and he loves to pick on people. Kenny targets one of his classmates by posting something on the internet and his classmate kills himself. Kenny is punished by the law for what he did and when he reaches Juvenile Detention Kenny gets to meet some real bullies worse then him. Kenny does the time and comes home to his family. Which he is reminded of everyday that his classmate will never come home.

Upon being released Kenny and his family are harassed and his father decides it is best to move and change their name and start a new life. At First Kenny has nightmares and flash backs about what he did and he regrets it. But let's face it what is regret when you cause another person to kill themselves because of an action you took. Guilt is a mother $%^@! So Kenny moves to another place where no one knows him and changes his name to Daniel. Only the past never really leaves you and on the first day of class at the new school Daniel is faced with a bully bullying another kid and he defends the kid.

So not what Daniel had in mind. The funny thing is is that Daniel has Kenny in his mind and he wars with him about everything. See Kenny has never really left Daniel. He may have changed his name and his address but he will never be able to rid himself of the guilt he has over the death of his classmate that he caused. As the story goes along it shows Kenny that Daniel does want to change and he will do whatever it takes to move on from the past.

Then enters Julie she is there when Daniel saves the bullied kid and she acts weird to me. She is hot one minute and cold the next. Everyone has secrets but will Daniels secret keep Julie away? Julie is Daniels emotional roller coaster because he starts to like her and want to be with her but the guilt he has is eating him inside. What will Julie chose? Will she give him a chance? What is redemption worth? Can he have a relationship with someone at this point in time?

I won't give away the twist at the end but dang it it was EPIC! I am so glad I was able to be a part of this EPIC story by reading it and being a part of the blog tour called It Only Takes One Click. Thank you Patty for writing such a compelling story.

PATTY TOOK THE TIME TO ANSWER THE DAY OLD QUESTION OF WHAT LIES BEHIND A BULLY?
BEHIND THE BULLY

People often wonder how I got the idea for SEND and why I wrote it from the bully’s perspective. The answer to this question is a complicated one – actually, it is an answer with several parts that converged into what would ultimately become Dan Ellison’s story.

First, let me tell you about my son. When my oldest boy, Rob, was in sixth grade, he broke down in tears one gloomy night in April and told me he no longer wanted to live. To say I was surprised would be the biggest understatement in history. Turns out, he’d been the victim of bullies since the term began the previous September. I had no clue he was being tormented. I had no idea he was even unhappy. He was twelve years old and suffering through an early puberty. His classmates tormented him over his body hair, his acne, his deep voice and made him feel so freakish, he actually believed he was not normal. We got him help and spoke to his teachers and principal and my son finished out the year with no further incidents. He’s now in college but his scars are deep.

The second contributing factor occurred the following year, when Rob was in seventh grade. I’d left the house early one Saturday morning to run errands with my youngest son in tow. Rob was still sleeping when I left. When I returned to my house, I saw some guy hanging by his fingertips from my living room window. This guy turned out to be the older and very muscular brother of a classmate who claimed Rob was now bullying him. He came over to ‘talk some sense into him,’ which – judging by his confrontational demeanor – was code for ‘see how he likes it.’

I’ve been a parent for a long time now and I KNOW most of us are oblivious to our kids’ shortcomings and faults. I have seen so much denial in my life but trust me on this – the word ‘disbelief’ doesn’t even come close to describing my reaction. How could the same boy in so much pain barely a year earlier turn around and cause that same pain in someone else? Near as I was able to determine, since the child would not directly address us, Rob intimidated this child without meaning to. Rob is large: by sixth grade, he was shaving, had reached five foot nine inches tall, which put him about a foot and a half higher than most of his classmates. What he thought was fooling around or playing was perceived as something entirely different by this boy. Judging by the depth of Rob’s guilt after hearing the accusations from this boy’s family, I have to believe he never meant to intimidate or threaten anybody. His despair over this runs nearly as deep as his scars from sixth grade.

I’d been writing all my life and after Rob’s sixth and seventh grade ordeals, put all that on hold for a while. I picked it up again to write a contemporary romantic trilogy that had been burning in my brain for a few years. I’d finished book 1 and had books 2 and 3 outlined. That brings me to the next significant event – my day job. I write software instruction guides and several years ago, a new executive directed us to start using social media in our work. I didn’t even know what sites like Twitter were. So I started doing the research. I learned not only how people use these sites, but also how they abuse them. And somewhere in the back of my brain, a little voice whispered, “I did that.”

I became obsessed with the idea of guilt – or more specifically, living with that degree of guilt and wondered how a kid who’d done something without understanding the permanence or the reach of his action could endure such guilt. And that little voice replied, “I’ll let you know when I figure it out.”

This voice would not shut up. I’ll be honest, he really pissed me off. I wanted to write book 2 in my trilogy, not turn a bully into a tragic hero. It felt wrong – distasteful – disrespectful – even disloyal to my son. I wasn’t ready to forgive Rob’s bullies. I wasn’t sure I could especially since I knew forgiveness would be an important theme in this novel. The idea of torturing this character in effigy did hold a certain amount of appeal. I gave it a shot and found that the deeper I dove into Dan’s story, the more I actually liked him. The duality of Dan/Kenny was a nod to that persistent voice in my own head that compelled me to write this story – sort of an inside joke.

Would you be able to forgive your or your child’s bully? After reading SEND, do you think most bullies are like Dan and my son, and unaware that they’re causing any pain?

Technical writer by day, fiction writer by night, Patty mines her day job for ideas to use in her novels. Her debut YA "Send" was born after a manager suggested she research social networks. Patty adores chocolate, her boys, and books, though not necessarily in that order.

***Cover Tease*** For Flutter by Melissa Andrea

TODAY I AM DOING A COVER TEASE FOR MELISSA ANDREA WHO IS THE AUTHOR OF AN UPCOMING BOOK CALLED FLUTTER. I AM SO EXCITED TO BE A PART OF THIS COVER TEASE AS I HAVE NEVER DONE ONE BEFORE. ON SATURDAY I WILL DO THE COVER REVEAL ALONG WITH ALL THE OTHER BLOGGERS. SO FOR NOW HERE IS THE TEASE AND THE BOOK DESCRIPTION.

Sara
Sara's life is forever changed -
Waking up, buried & hidden deeply in the last place anyone would want to be, will do that. She is determined to find out how she ended up there & why, but when the only person who can help her, continuously lies to her, she finds herself forced to suffer alone. She can't ignore the strange things that begin to happen to her nor can she hide from the nightmares that haunt her sleep. And when her world collides with Adan - the mysterious boy whom she can't seem to stay away from, literally - she is consumed by the familiar flutter that sparks whenever he is around and she is desperate to discover the reason why.
But the biggest discovery will come from the secret of what she is…

Adan

Adan’s mission to find Sara has finally approached -
It seemed simple: bring her back to the enchanted world that lives, breathes and survives because of her, but he quickly finds himself faced with an entirely new challenge. Immediately, Adan realizes that staying unknown to Sara is a task he will fail before even attempting. The pull to her is far too strong to refuse, and being with her will defy the very reason he existed. He was the key to her survival and loving her was not part of the plan that he had been born to follow. Can he find it in himself too resist the urge to be with her and follow through with their destiny or will he destroy everything that had been left to Sara to protect and defend -
And the kingdom she is unaware she rules…

Flutter

As Sara and Adan struggle to overcome their own separate battles -
There is a far more determined evil that is stalking the shadows and waiting to annihilate them both.
Sara will figure out that not everything is what it seems and knowing what she can and can not trust will be the key to finding out the truth to what happened to her, the reason why she had been buried alive and who she really is…

Sara and Adan will discover the hidden meaning to why she was the reason he existed and why he would be the reason she survived & together they will fight to change the rules and rewrite their fate.

Discover the Meaning,
Discover the Secret,
Discover
Flutter

October 2012
Read the first two chapters of Flutter here:http://melissaandrea-justlikethat.blo...

Melissa started reading in high school when she found her mom's romance book collection and has been hooked on books every since. She became a complete book-a-holic, starting her own collection and improving her reading skills. Most of the time she could finish a book walking around the store, while her mom shopped.

She wrote her first short story in high school for a competition in her writing class. It was a child's book called 'Arnold' - it was about an ant who believed he could do anything. Oh by the way, she won!

She has written many stories since then, but this will be her first YA paranormal/fantasy and the first book she will have published.

She lived in Mesa, Arizona with her husband of six years, and her 3 beautiful daughters. They are her biggest fans and they inspire her everyday. She enjoys spending time with her family, weekend dates with her mom & taking vacations. Hawaii anyone??