For those of you who haven't seen my facebook announcements, as of the new year 2013 my current fan page named after my very first book Forever Mine will be going away. Along with it so will my facebook author page. For the past year or so I've utilized these two pages with my blog and twitter (even though I'll be the first to admit I suck at Twitter) to make announcements, post teasers, run contests etc. But it's become increasingly harder and harder to keep up with all the comments, messages, posts from each page. Not only that but I've been told by too many readers that they were unable to find my fan page because they were searching for my name unaware that as newbie when I first established my fan page it that it would make more sense to establish one under my name not one of my books. o.O Therefor the time has come to condense and move everything to my new fan page and one that's much easier to find with my NAME! lol
AND to read the very first extra long Fate teaser!!!!
So for the latest on my upcoming books, book signings, teasers or just announcements in general. This will be the place to go to first! So please help me get everyone moved over there by spreading the word! <3 b="b" nbsp="nbsp">
100 Amazon reviews of Always Been Mine!! Thank you all SO much! (Well 101 now) As promised here is the full bonus scene! Just so you get the full experience, here is the prior scene again from Forever Mine leading up to the bonus. FYI since the prior scene is actually in Forever Mine, it's in Sarah's POV.
“I’ve scored, ass.” Romero turned to Sarah. "Speaking of me scoring, where’s Valerie?”
Sarah went stiff. She glanced at Alex; his face was unreadable. “Home.”
“You should’ve brought her,” Romero said.
When Sarah looked at Alex again, he was staring at Romero, but didn’t say a word.
Eric laughed. “Scored? She shot you down on Friday, and she was drunk.
She takes one look at your mug sober, she’s gonna freak that she even
let you kiss her.”
Alex's eyebrows shot up. “You kissed her?”
“She liked it,” Romero said, more to Eric than Alex.
“So, you went out with her?” Alex asked.
Romero turned to look at Alex. “Nah, we hung out after the game. All of us did at the beach.”
“But you kissed her?”
Sarah squirmed, wanting to disappear. Alex had that same tone he’d had
on the phone with Valerie. The same unmistakable tone Angel would get
when he was getting heated.
Romero made a face. “Yeah, so what? I can’t help it if the chicks dig me.”
Alex rolled his eyes, and looked at Eric. “And she shot him down?”
“Yeah.” Eric laughed.
Sarah nodded vigorously, and then stopped when she saw Romero was
looking at her. The look on his face was almost comical. “She told you
that?”
“Well, no... I mean… I can’t tell you what she said. It’s girl talk.” She stood up quickly. “I’m starving.”
“You got shot down.” Alex smiled.
Sarah could see it was a forced smile. Angel stood up with Sarah and
followed her to the buffet table. When they got back, Romero and Eric
were arguing again about the Chargers and Alex was gone. Something told
Sarah Valerie would be getting that call she’d been waiting for.
***
Alex stalked through the restaurant feeling his muscles tense up with every step he took. Valerie
kissed Romero? Or was it the other way around? He couldn’t even
remember now. The irritation was already clouding his memory. It took
everything in him not to reach across the table and wring Romero’s
fucking neck after hearing his "chicks-dig-me" remark. He knew Valerie didn’t owe him any explanations— he wasn’t entitled to any answers but he wanted some, damn it. They’d just slept together that week and it had been incredible. Sure he hadn’t called her since but he’d been busy. He was going to eventually. Alex didn’t know what pissed him off more, that she’d kissed another guy so soon after being with him or that it was Romero. Pushing the back door to the restaurant open
he walked out and pulled his phone out of his pocket. He should really
wait until he was a little calmer. At least until the visual of Romero’s
lips on Valerie’s wasn’t still blazing in his brain. But he had to talk
to her now. He waited for her to answer, the anger building with every ring.
“Hello?”
“You kissed Romero?”
Silence.
“Just tell me this," Pacing, Alex
tried desperately not to let on just how much he hated the thought of Valerie with anyone else. “Why? And why with one of my fucking friends? You
could’ve at least warned me that this is what you do. Who’s next, Eric?” “Go to hell, Alex! This is why you’re calling me now? Because you certainly didn’t care to do so once you got what you wanted.”
“No. You go to hell, Z!”
He clicked the phone ending the call before he spat out all the other things he wanted to say.
Running his fingers through his hair
he fought the urge to fling his phone against the wall. This was crazy.
What did he care anyway? She was just some chick he’d had some fun
with. She was no different than all the others. All the others? He thought about that for a moment and just like that he was back to being infuriated. No. This was bullshit! In the past few weeks since he’d been hooking up with Valerie there had been no others. Fuck her! Knowing he was too worked up to go back into the restaurant
he went for a drive instead. He couldn’t be gone too long. Angel would
be mad if he had to hang around longer to cover for him. The only thing
that calmed him was that it was said more than once, with Sarah backing
it up—Valerie had shot Romero down. By the time he got back
he was much calmer. It surprised him a little that Valerie hadn’t
called him back but then she did sound pretty pissed off herself. Not
only that, he’d insulted her. Beginning to feel like shit about what he’d said to her, especially
knowing now that she was upset about him not calling her back after
sleeping with her he
decided maybe he should call her back. Gadamnit, why didn’t he go with
his first instinct and hold off calling until he was calmer? He dialed her again and waited. It rang so many times, for a moment he thought she might not answer. If she didn’t he wasn’t leaving a message. He sucked at that. But then she did.
“Hello?”
“I’m sorry.” Again with the damn silence. “I was pissed.” He hated to admit it but
after what he’d said to her he owed her that much. “More than pissed.
I’d never felt anything like that but I shouldn’t have said what I
said.” “I was hurt, Alex. I only considered doing anything with him for a moment but then decided I couldn’t." And the heat was on again. Just the fact that she’d considered being with Romero burned him up. “With Romero? Really?” “Only because you hadn’t called and I was certain I wouldn’t be
hearing from you again. And if we’re being honest here if you hadn’t
heard about this today would you have called me?” She had a point. He continued to pace. “Maybe.”
Valerie laughed. “Oh, please.”
“I might’ve.” Even he couldn’t keep a straight face but suddenly he felt the need to see her again. He stopped in his tracks. “You busy tonight?”
“Nope.”
“I’ll pick you up at seven?”
Her lingering silence was really beginning to irritate him now.
“Okay.”
Alex exhaled and for
the first time since he heard about the damn kiss he smiled big, then
just like that he was serious again. He was getting one thing straight
here. “Oh, and listen. I know you’re not my girlfriend but I don’t give a shit. I’m telling that little fucker to stay the hell away from you. Just so you know.” She laughed again. “Say to him whatever you want. Just don’t hurt him. I was a willing participant.”
Alex groaned fisting his hand. “I don’t wanna hear about that, Z.”
After hanging up with her he headed to the restaurant to let Romero know if he valued his life he best keep his fucking hands and lips off Valerie.
How so? For every day that I'm gone I will be choosing one winner. Because I have seven books for every book link (Amazon or B&N) you shout out via FB, Twitter, Pinterest or any other means you can send me the link to or tag me you will be entered. So enter up to 7 times!!! But wait there's more!!!
UPDATE ON ALEX/VALERIE BONUS SCENE: For more info on this see original post.
We are SO close! The magic number of reviews we're trying to get to is 100 on Amazon and we're at 86! BUT I have 1826 likes on my fan page. And 115 followers on this blog. See that little thingy on that sidebar there on the right ---->. So lets make a deal. Now we have 3 numbers to watch. So now there are three ways to gettin that bonus scene posted asap! Whichever happens first, 2000 likes on fan page (seems like a lot I know but I get a heck of a lot more likes per day than I do reviews tell your friends! 150 followers on this blog--that's only 35 more or 14 more reviews on Amazon to reach that elusive 100 reviews and I post the bonus scene! Even if we hit one of these while I'm on vacation I will have my laptop with me so don't worry I won't make you wait until I get back. I'll post as soon we hit one of the milestones!
Easy peasy! So let the liking, following, posting, tagging, tweeting, pinning begin! Winners will be announced Thursday August 2nd!
Set up: Gio is falling for Felix girl Bianca and he thinks she's falling for him too--possibly even thinking of leaving Felix or at least he thought so until today. Something is not right and has him seeing red.
They’d been at the
bar drinking for a while though Gio had kept a slow steady pace compared to the
rest of the guys. He felt even stupider now about telling Noah what she’d
promised. Noah had to be thinking the same thing. Maybe something had
changed today. Maybe his text this morning had snapped her into the realization
that this couldn’t go on anymore. That they had been incredibly
delusional to have ever even considered getting into this situation in the
first place.
The very idea that
she’d changed her mind made him sick but with every shot Felix took, he was
getting more and more touchy-feely and she was letting him. The last straw was
when she’d walked back from the restroom toward the table with the rest of the
girls and Gio’s heightened senses followed her. His nose followed the lingering
scent of her perfume. He fought the losing battle to keep his eyes off her only
to watch Felix pull her to him as she’d nearly made it past him and kiss her, blatantly
shoving his tongue in her mouth for an instant. She jerked away, obviously
irritated by his drunken kiss, but it was enough to make Gio want to run out of
there. “I’ll be back,” he said exchanging glances with a stern faced Noah. “I
gotta make a phone call.”
Without even
glancing back in Felix and Bianca’s direction, he took off to the inside bar
area of the resort. He didn’t care anymore about staying sober. Needing a shot
but not about to stand and watch Felix and Bianca while he took one, maybe more,
he headed straight to the bar. And he’d buy it with his own fucking money,
too.
Irritated, he
pushed the fact aside that even his own money was coming from Felix. Money he’d
paid Gio to stick around and fall in love with his girlfriend. Gio nearly stopped
walking. He’d known all along that she was different. That he felt things for
her he’d never felt in his life. That he’d crossed a line he would’ve never
considered crossing but he had only because it was her. She possessed the power
to make him lose the capability to hold on to any reasonable thinking. But had
he really fallen in love with her this quickly?
He fisted his hand
as he continued to walk through the crowded bar. How the fuck could he be stupid
enough to fall in love with someone so completely off-limits?
Just as he reached
the bar, he thought he felt his phone go off in his pocket. In no mood to talk
or even text anyone he almost didn’t pull his phone out. The remote possibility
that it might be Bianca made him reach for it. Surprised not only that it was
Bianca’s name on the screen but that it wasn’t a text, she was calling.
He glanced back
through the glass doors and saw the guys still drinking by the bar. They all
held shots up in the air but Bianca was nowhere to be seen. Feeling a little
hesitation, he answered anyway. Who the hell was he kidding? He was suddenly
dying to hear her voice. “Hello?”
“Meet me out front
in the parking lot,” she whispered rapidly.
“What?” he asked,
already headed for the front exit. His heart sped up with every long eager stride.
“Just do it,” she
urged.
“I’m on my way.”
He nearly broke into a sprint, her voice alone vanquishing all the negative
thoughts he’d so recently been thinking.
Yep, there was no
question about it. God help him. He was in love.
So here is the scene from Forever Mine I posted on my fan page a few days ago.
“I’ve scored, ass.” Romero turned to Sarah. "Speaking of me scoring, where’s Valerie?”
Sarah went stiff. She glanced at Alex; his face was unreadable. “Home.”
“You should’ve brought her,” Romero said.
When Sarah looked at Alex again, he was staring at Romero, but didn’t say a word.
Eric laughed. “Scored? She shot you down on Friday, and she was drunk.
She takes one look at your mug sober, she’s gonna freak that she even
let you kiss her.”
Alex's eyebrows shot up. “You kissed her?”
“She liked it,” Romero said, more to Eric than Alex.
“So, you went out with her?” Alex asked.
Romero turned to look at Alex. “Nah, we hung out after the game. All of us did at the beach.”
“But you kissed her?”
Sarah squirmed, wanting to disappear. Alex had that same tone he’d had
on the phone with Valerie. The same unmistakable tone Angel would get
when he was getting heated.
Romero made a face. “Yeah, so what? I can’t help it if the chicks dig me.”
Alex rolled his eyes, and looked at Eric. “And she shot him down?”
“Yeah.” Eric laughed.
Sarah nodded vigorously, and then stopped when she saw Romero was
looking at her. The look on his face was almost comical. “She told you
that?”
“Well, no... I mean… I can’t tell you what she said. It’s girl talk.” She stood up quickly. “I’m starving.”
“You got shot down.” Alex smiled.
Sarah could see it was a forced smile. Angel stood up with Sarah and
followed her to the buffet table. When they got back, Romero and Eric
were arguing again about the Chargers and Alex was gone. Something told
Sarah Valerie would be getting that call she’d been waiting for.
I had enough show of hands of readers who would like to read the never before seen "phone call scene" in Alex's POV. So ABM currently has 59 reviews on Amazon. To give me time to write the scene and because I know that number will go up with the contest. When we hit 100 reviews I will post the bonus scene and let me tell you I already know he'll be mad. This is gonna be fun! =) Winners of the signed copy of ABM will be announced next Friday morning and bonus scene will be posted as soon as we hit the 100 review milestone. Ready, set Go!!!!!
UPDATE 8/4/12 It's up now! Read the entire bonus scene HERE.
Alex stalked through the restaurant,
feeling his muscles tense up with every step he took. She kissed Romero?
Or was it the other way around? He couldn’t even remember now. The
irritation was already clouding his memory. It took everything in him
not to reach across the table and wring Romero’s fucking neck after
hearing his "chicks dig me" remark.
He knew Valerie didn’t
owe him any explanations—he wasn’t entitled to any answers, but he
wanted some, damn it. They’d just slept together that week and it had
been incredible. Sure, he hadn’t called her since, but he’d been busy.
He was going to eventually.
Alex didn’t know what pissed him
off more—that she’d kissed another guy so soon after being with him, or
that it was Romero. Pushing the back door to the restaurant open, he
walked out and pulled his phone out of his pocket. He should really wait
until he was a little calmer. At least until the visual of Romero’s
lips on Valerie’s wasn’t still blazing in his brain. But he needed to talk
to her now.
He waited for her to answer, the anger building with every ring.
“Hello?”
“You kissed Romero?”
Silence.
And just because I love this song so much and it seems fitting here. I added this little diddy. "Stop making a fool outta me, Valerie!" Thank you Amy. RIP. <3
Here it is folks! I've been talking about it for some time. A spin off series to The Moreno Brothers!
Who better to take the lead in the first book of the series? Vince & Rose <3 And here is your first peek of the cover to their story "Fate" <- also the name of the series.
Fate (Fate #1)
No blurb or release date as of yet but it's the next one I'll have out and I'm SO excited about it! Their story has been in my head ever since I finished writing Making You Mine. Heck it was there even before. Hold on to your hats. This will be a bumpy ride and expect to see some of your favorites from the MB series! This series will be a little different from the others as not ALL character will be so intertwined with the others in previous books because we will revisit some old friends like Sydney and Brandon who don't necessarily have much to do with Vince and Lorenzo...uh yeah. I said Lorenzo. ;) But the one thing they will all have in common? The military.
Dream Cast: (Yeah you've seen some of these before..still they're dreamy!)
Young Vince. Sorry not sure what his name is but Rowr!
Young Rose actress Alexa Nikolas
And since we did black and white of Vince here is a black and white for Rose same actress.
First song on playlist for Fate. It Will Rain by Bruno Mars
And because I don't think I've teased you enough meet
Lorenzo... Moreno. You'll have to read the book to find out more about him. ;)
Very excited! I hope you are too!
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I'll be randomly drawing 3 names to give signed copies of Forever Mine next week.
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All you have to do is share the temporary price cut with a link to it on your FB, Twitter, Pinterest, just share in any way. Be sure to to either tag me or send me the link to where you posted. That's it! Your name will automatically be entered into the drawing. Easy peasy!
