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A year in review…

How do you best celebrate an amazing journey that you never envisioned you would be on in the first place?

It has been a little over a year since the release of my debut novel, Soul Reborn.  I’ve looked back over the last year and a half and remembered all the hurdles I encountered from start to finish.  And, most importantly, those days of growth as a writer. 

So where did this all start?

I had pitched the manuscript at PRO Camp by the Fantasy Futuristic and Paranormal chapter of RWA.  I had three lines to sell my book over an internet chat.  I saved those three lines and the editor’s response to them.  (Yes, I was very green back then, so don’t laugh too hard)  The working title was originally Lion’s Flower.  So glad we changed it to Soul Reborn J

My Pitch:  The present day world has been infested with revens, the human undead, infected by a curse of the Egyptian goddess Kepi, and the Nehebkau huntresses, led by Lilly Carrigan, are the only force that stands between the revens and their food source, living humans. In her desperate pursuit to find a cure for the curse that she accidentally released when she touched the goddess’ tomb, Lilly sells her body and soul to Asar, the Underworld god. Tortured and left soulless by the goddess, Asar is intent on killing those responsible for his suffering, but little does he know that includes the beautiful huntress who has stolen his heart.

The editors response:  Anyone who knows me can tell you how much I detest zombies, but they’re not the love interests in your book (YA is swimming with those), so YAY! I read your pitch three times before I understood the gist of your book, so definitely look at simplifying.

I’m intrigued by your first 100 words, however, and would like to see more. Please send your full ms.

I laugh every time I read her response.  I remember thinking at least I got a request and so glad she was willing to give me a chance (zombies and all).  I sent in my manuscript and began to chew what was left of my nails.  Well, I didn’t have to wait long.  I received this email 24 hours later:

Hi Jean,

Thank you for submitting the first book in your KEY TO THE CURSE series.

You certainly delivered on your promise of no zombie love

interests–what a fantastic story! I loved everything about it, from

the chemistry between Lilly and Asar to the heated battles to the

secondary characters. I may have just become your biggest fan

The promise of Kendra and Kit finding their soul mates (Bakari and

Kamen, right? Though I’m hoping for a little friendly competition from

Bomani in Kendra’s case…) in addition to how much I love this book

only seals my decision. Crescent Moon Press would love to offer you

a publishing contract.

The ironic part of this whole experience is I received a rejection letter on the same day as Crescent Moon Press’ contract offer.  I have both letters framed side by side in my office to remind myself, not only of where I came from, but as writers we don’t give up even in the face of rejection.  I am so glad that Crescent Moon Press took a chance on me and what a journey it has been.  But, now that I had a contract the hard work wasn’t over… 

In celebration of my 1^st year of publication and Soul Reborn, it is on sale for a limited time for $.99 (normally $6.99) on All Romance Ebooks, July 1-15, 2012.  Plus, there will be additional giveaways at the following blog posts dedicated to my publication journey:

To see more of my journey over the next two weeks, visit my blog Wicked Romance.

MY JOURNEY:

The first 6 months:  I have a contract. NOW WHAT? 

Book Release:  OMG, Am I ready for this?

Featured Author:  My first conference and Book  Signing.  Is that Lara Adrian?

Writing:  The story continues, Book II

Jean Murray

Jean Murray was born and raised in a small town on the east coast. In her pursuit of a nursing degree, she aspired to see the world and joined the Navy. One of the benefits of her membership in the Armed Forces, she has had the opportunity to travel and live in different parts of the world and the United States. Her travels abroad have given her the opportunity to experience different cultures. It inspired her to delve into Ancient Egyptian myths and legends for her debut novel, Soul Reborn, book 1 in the Key to the Cursed series from Crescent Moon Press, now available.

Web Address: www.jean-murray.com ; www.keytothecursed.com
Blog Address: www.wickedromance.wordpress.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/wickedromance
Face Book: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jean-Murray-Paranormal-Romance-Author/130589967006760
Book Trailers: http://www.youtube.com/user/KeytotheCursed/videos

Let me tell you a secret.  I get afraid sometimes.  They say you should only write in a genre you love, and that before you even write the first word of your novel, you should’ve read every book you can that might be similar to yours.  They.  Them.  Those villains.  Always telling us what to do.

Here’s my problem.  I like all genres.  I read Atlas Shrugged last summer and adored it.  Hated it.  Adored it.  Hated it some more.  I’m currently reading The Lightning Thief, which is very Harry Potter, but not quite.  I’m also reading The God Delusion (atheists), Betsy Dornbusch’s Archive of Fire (demons and fighting), and Elizabeth’s Cheryl’s The Summerland (witches and love).

So you see, I’d have to write a book that has atheists, demons, love, and billionaire entrepreneurs who refuse to do good except out of their own enlightened selfishness.

Hey!  Wait!  I kind of did that.  My novel, The Never Prayer, came out in March, 2012, and it has demons, atheists, love, and kind of literary feel to it.  Kind of.  I’ve been told it has a literary flare about it.  That’s what they said.

The same “them” that told me that I had to read only my genre of novels and shut the hell up.

But for me, I have to fly, be free to explore, to strive, to seek, to find – what matters more to me than genre is a good story, or something that moves me, or something that blows my mind into comic book movie shrapnel.

And yeah, what I love to read the most?  Literary novels.  I went through a Ken Kesey phase, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Sometimes a Great Notion, and had a blast.  I fell in love.  I just finished Poe Ballantine’s Decline of the Lawrence Welk Empire, which is an explosion of a book, and if you want to read a seriously dark and depraved, yet strangely hopeful literary novel, Nathan Singer’s A Prayer for Dawn.

So should I write literary novels?  THEY would say.  But I don’t wanna and you can’t make me.

I like the paranormal.  I just saw Joss Whedon’s The Avengers, and yes, it is a comic book movie, but Bruce Banner, and his inner demon, the Hulk, is such a great metaphor for how it feels to be human sometimes.  Here we are, people, civilized, but something inside of me is full of raw-meat animal rage.  Why do you think werewolves and vampires have captured our imaginations for generations?

Because we eat other animals to survive, and unlike hyenas, we can empathize on some level with the animals we kill and eat.  Unless you’re a vegan, and then, well, I’m sure you have Hulk demons running around in your psyche somewhere.

Fiction with paranormal aspects allows us more room to investigate the human story, and if all story boils down to metaphor, why not use the metaphor of the Hulk, or werewolves, or vampires, to really explore the themes of the story you want to tell?  Atlas Shrugged could have used a vampire or two.  But then, it already read like a comic book anyway.  Good guys were good (capitalists) and the villains were evil (dang mooching looters).

So, yeah,blo I’m not going to read only one genre.  And yeah, I’m going to generally have the paranormal in my books because I like the layers of meaning the paranormal can bring.

And life?  Life is weird.  And scary. And strange.  To quote the master, who wrote his fair share of paranormal romances, but now is considered strictly literary:

Horatio:
O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!

Hamlet:
And therefore as a stranger give it welcome.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

From The Avengers to Hamlet.  That is the kind of stuff I want to write.

For more about me and The Never Prayer, you can visit us both at www.aaronmritchey.com.  And of course, I’m on Facebook, as is the book at http://www.facebook.com/TheNeverPrayer.  And I tweet – @aaronmritchey.   If you are at all curious about the novel, our friends at Amazon.com would love for you to visit them!

If you are a try before you buy type of cat, hit me here for an excerpt: http://crescentmoonpress.com/books/TheNeverPrayer.html

From the journal of Sean T. Poindexter, a talented new author from Crescent Moon Press….

The Kindle edition of The Shadow of Tiamat is available for sale. You don’t have to own a Kindle to read it this way, you can download it and read it on your computer or iPhone or any other number of devices. You can also pre-order The Shadow of Tiamat – Print Edition.

 The BAD news–well, it’s not really bad per se, just kind of funny–is that Amazon has garbled the title of the book so that, as of this morning, it appears on their website as DARGON’S BLOOD CHRONICLES. Don’t anyone blow a gasket, this was an honest mistake. PLEASE STOP SENDING ANGRY EMAILS TO MY PUBLISHER. I appreciate your passion for my work, but you aren’t helping. This will get fixed. This was apparently a mix up between the distributor and Amazon. These things happen.

 Some more good news, I now have an Amazon Author Page. And my book is on Goodreads – albeit, with the wrong title but what can you do?

 So, you can start ordering, adding stars and reviews, whatever you want now. The book is for sale! Hooray! We’re finally there, guys! Don’t let one minor hitch derail this. When you recommend the book to your friends, just let them know that there is a misprint on the title on Amazon but that the title is correct on the book.

 Many readers or aspiring writers ask how an author ended up in the place she landed? Like any writer, my own favorite authors have influenced me along the way. Have you ever read a book where each moment hit like a tidal wave, the sharp perfect words creating an emotional whammy to leave you shattered and in love with the entire story? I don’t claim to be able to recreate that feat, but when I construct a particularly emotional scene in my stories, that accomplishment is hovering in the back of my mind, and I know I’m capturing at least a small corner of it if my heart is in my throat as I write my characters sharing their dramatic moment.

So who does this to me regularly in their stories, setting the bar atmospheric? One of my favorite fantasy series is Anne Bishop’s Black Jewels trilogy. The brief interactions between her characters, the silky violence-edged sensual danger of her male characters, who nonetheless are emotionally well developed, always does it for me.

Joey Hill and her vampire queen series pulls off the most emotionally intense stories of love I can ever hope to find. The development of these complex relationships is realistic (not the paranormal parts per se) but true to the emotional psyche and how wounds are overcome in the face of love. Although I don’t try to recreate her style, I always aim for this achievement in the intensity of my characters’ relationships.

The scope of other writers’ world building has influenced me significantly. Kim Harrison comes to mind. So does Charlaine Harris. But also more traditional fantasy writers like Jacqueline Carey, whose epic stories in her Kushiel series have amazed me. I seek to recreate their thoroughness and complexity in their worlds. The first book that influenced my sense of world building, and so important to my dream of becoming a writer, was Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean Auel. Auel’s alternative pre-historic society was amazing.

I’m also affected by economy of words. Writers whose minimalist dialogue conveys everything along with the kitchen sink. Charlaine Harris does this regularly. She particularly does it in her mystery series as opposed to her Sookie Stackhouse series. Tanya Huff has achieved this as well. Like these women, I aim to keep cutting my words to choose only those with the most impact. It’s a long-term goal. I have miles to go.

When you read a book whose words affect your soul like magic, something inside you wants to reach out and capture that. If only, you say to yourself. If I can do it that beautifully, my writing world would be complete. You have to find your own way to the magic, but its wonderful to have so many talented authors to absorb along the way.

 To find out more about my Eden books you can visit my website at www.michellepicard.com or my blogsite at www.michellepicardsblog.wordpress.com. Follow the links on my website’s books page to read excerpts or purchase my books.

Shadows have continued to fascinate me since the day I turned eight and realized that the shadow from the tree outside my window looked remarkably similar to the wicked witch of the west. She was laughing, too . . . at my terror. That shadow shape terrified me night after night, delighting in my fear. Until one night, I had a revelation. If I turned six centimeters to the right of where I usually kept my pillow, the shadow was no longer a witch, but a tree. Just a tree. That’s probably when the shadows hooked me. And I first realized what they were: pretenders.

 I call shadows pretenders with great fondness. They are, after all, very good at what they do. There is a shadow for everything, so they are very busy. And they are impartial. Both good things and bad things happen in their hidden depths. They are superb actresses and actors. (I think their gender is really dependent on the gender of the shadow caster, but I have no scientific evidence to support this hypothesis.) Shadows are a tad arrogant. But then, they are very cool, so I suppose you could just call it confidence.

 Shadows pair well with scandal, which pairs well with scheming. Because shadows are good at pretending to be other things. Shadows and some of the people in Ruined have that in common.

 Ruined is the story of the Realm of Shadows where the people use the shadows of their Ancestor gods to shift at fast speeds. The Shadow Shifters commune with the shadows, hang out in the shadows and live in the darkness. Of course, in the darkness, motives are muddled. Not everything is as it seems which makes sense because the world of the Shadow Shifters isn’t exactly what it seems on the surface. Everyone on the Court has their own motivations and Vale, as the king, and Jessa, as the Senior Healer, constantly battle to do what’s best for their people against malicious characters and unlikely odds. Their love battles against the shadows: the shadows of their history, the shadows of individual pasts, and the shadows of ancient secrets.

 I hope you’ll travel across the shadows of Ruined with me for a romantic, fantasy tale of Vale and Jessa’s strong bond of love that will be tested, but never broken. All in a realm where passions lead, evil lurks and shadows rule.

 BLURB for RUINED

Jessa is one healing away from death. Under the thrall of her gift, the Court’s Senior Healer risks giving her life in exchange for her patient’s.

Vale is a rebel ruler. When his brother is killed, he’s given the throne and the decree from the Court to produce an heir or lose his family’s hold on the land–and his deceiving advisors aren’t afraid to use murder as a weapon if their directive to stay away from the Senior Healer goes unheeded.

But Vale burns to possess Jessa. The heat between them leaves a wake of smoke, and even the powerful forces above want to bind them in a union that lasts forever. Vale taking another would be a betrayal neither could survive.

Their enemies fear a child born of such a powerful Healer and Warrior, but the true threat lies in the bond forged in shadows and fused in fire.

Ebook: http://www.amazon.com/Ruined-ebook/dp/B005D9J6L2/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1312678069&sr=8-2

 Print: http://www.amazon.com/Ruined-Kinley-Baker/dp/1937254143/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1312678069&sr=8-2

I love to write. The person in control of the keyboard can use words as a refuge or to envision a landscape filled with passion, revenge, and eventually, harmony. You can create your own world, your own law of physics, (as long as it is consistent) and lastly, a place where your dreams come true.

My genre is Paranormal Romance. Many years ago, I became captivated by archaeology and paleontology. If I’m not home, I’m out collecting. This past fall I discovered a grinding stone in my son’s backyard. It has six holes and with a little digging, I found the pestle. Not too far away is the fire pit, filled with fossilized bone. I am blessed to live in the Sierra Nevada foothills where the countryside is rife with ancient Native American legends and 49er follies.

My love of science and archaeology is what pushed me into writing Paranormal Romance. I was twelve when I held my first séance. I gathered several friends of mine in the hallway of my home. We closed the doors to make it as black as possible and used the Ouija board. Fifteen minutes later one of the doors blew open, the candle went out, and all five us ran screaming down the hallway into the backyard where sunlight flooded our darkest imaginations with laughter.

Paranormal reality lays deep in my family gene pool. My niece is Erin Renee, Manifestation Mistress, and witch. She recently did a segment for psychic reality show due out this winter. My mother had her experiences, and my sister prefers to not discuss the subject as it scares the bejeezes out of her.

 From archaeology to physics, my imagination runs the gamut. Here are some fun and amazing examples of weird physics: (Special thanks to Tom Chivers.)

1.      All the matter that makes up the human race will fit into a sugar cube—atoms are 99.9999999999999 percent empty space. However, that sugar cube would weigh about five billion tons.

2.      Events in the future can affect what happened in the past. This is part of the quantum world and is well documented.

3.      Most of the universe is missing. What we can see only accounts for two percent of its mass. We know there is more because it has gravity.

4.      There are an infinite number of mes writing this sentence and an infinite number of yous reading it. There are an infinite number of universes existing side-by-side and every conceivable probability is played out.

5.      The faster you move, the heavier you get.

In Gemini Rising, I take on the physics of other world dynamics as it relates to our precious Earth. Many years ago, I studied Zecharia Sitchin and his theory of a 12^th planet in our solar system. Alexander died Oct. 19, 2010, but his theories live on. In fact, in 2005 a 10^th planet was discovered by a group of astronomers using the 48-inch Samuel Oschin Telescope at Palomar Observatory and the 8-meter Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea, hence the book’s title, Gemini Rising. 

Thank you for spending time with me. I hope you’ve enjoyed my musings. Questions and comments are always welcome at carroll.louann@yahoo.com. Please check out my website at www.louanncarrollbooks.weebly.com

Warmly,

What Kind of Book Have You Written?
By Sean T. Poindexter

 This is probably the most common question I get asked right after people ask what I do. Or when my friends, sick to death of my tireless self-promotion, ask with feigned shock, “You wrote a book?!?” That just never stops being funny, you loveable bunch  …

In general, people want a short, understandable answer when they ask what a book is about. If I was writing about cowboys, for example, they’d want me to say, “It’s a western.” If I wrote space battles and stories about meeting aliens, they’d want, “It’s kind of like Star Trek .” Or they want a hybrid example, combining two things that heretofore haven’t been combined in a memorable way. Like if I wrote a zombie thriller set in the Old West, I could say it’s like Tombstone meets Dawn of the Dead .  Unfortunately, I’m not very good at defining my own work in these terms. When I try, I usually come off as a prick. For example, I once told someone that my first book is like a cross between Laurell K. Hamilton’s Guilty Pleasures and Cormac McCarthy’s The Borders Trilogy . Yeah, see what I mean?  …just writing it makes me want to kick myself.

I could just say my book is about dragons—since they are the focus of my main series; the word Dragon is even part of the series title!—but that doesn’t really do the trick. Sure, my book is about dragons, but so are a lot of books: everything from children’s books to erotica. When most people hear that your book is about dragons, they assume you’re writing traditional fantasy. Not that I have anything against that genre, but it isn’t what I write. There are many fine authors who do; I’m just not one of them.

I could tell them it’s a love story, but that makes it sound like a romance novel. Again, nothing against that genre, it just isn’t what I’ve written. Yes, there is romance in the books, especially the first one, but the focus of the story is much bigger than that. I could say it has vampires in it, but then they think I’m writing a vampire book. Yes, there are vampires, as well as other monsters like demons and werebeasts, as well as sorcery and so on, but they are just part of the whole world I’ve created for my books—a parallel world that, on the surface, looks just like ours but contains far more than we know about. That is the essence of writing fantasy, but the contemporary setting takes it out of the traditional fantasy genre. So I could say it’s an urban fantasy, but not everyone knows what that means.

In short, when asked what my book is about, I tell them they are about dragons and other supernatural creatures who hide among humans, and a young woman who gets introduced to their world by accident when she falls in love with a dragon. Sometimes I mention the vampires, but only in reference to them getting their asses kicked by the dragons, or that they operate like criminals instead of aristocrats as in a lot of other vampire stories. I’m not putting down anyone’s work, I’m just pointing out how mine is different.

Sometimes I put attention on the action aspects of my book, if it seems like that is what the potential reader asking would like. Usually, younger male readers get more excited about the action elements of the book: the dragons fighting vampires, dragons fighting other dragons, etc. A lot of female readers like this aspect as well, but they also enjoy the romantic element: Meg and Garrett are established as a couple on the first page of the book, so it’s no mystery that they are going to get together, and that eventually Garrett will reveal himself as a dragon. The story that unfolds is how she deals with falling in love with someone who isn’t human, has never been human, and has a very faint idea of how to even act like a human or handle a relationship with an adult woman. The idea of a man being in love with a woman but having absolutely no idea how to act as a result is something with which most women can identify.

I sometimes get asked if there is sex in the book. Yes, there is sex in the book. The whole book isn’t sex-sex-sex, but there are a couple of love scenes: one big one and a few smaller ones scattered about. There isn’t as much sex as there is violence, but I rarely get asked about just the violence. I don’t know if people are just more afraid of reading the sex than the violence, or if they just really want a book full of sex. Either way, the book is written for adults so the violence is described with the same level of detail and color as the sex. It’s just how I write, and most people who have read it appreciate that. I’ve only had one person say they didn’t like the sex, and another who said there wasn’t enough of it. I figure I can’t make everyone like the book, so just write it the way I want.

And that’s what I do: I write the kind of book I would like to read. I try not to imitate anyone else and write what I think is a good story. And that’s what I tell people when they ask what kind of book it is. I say, “It’s the kind of book you could imagine me reading and really enjoying.” Take what you know about me, and pretend someone wrote a book for him. That’s what kind of book I have written. I hope a lot of you like it, too.

First Scene, First Impression
             By Hildie McQueen

  The opening scene in a movie will can set the pace for the rest of the picture. Sometimes a beginning will be all the person watching needs to know they’ve been captured and have to remain in place until they find the answers to the questions that the very first scene sets up.

 One of best opening scenes is the one for Kill Bill, within one minute and twenty-eight seconds you’re hooked.  A badly beaten woman is breathing hard; her bloody face conveys terror as heavy footsteps coming closer. The man begins to speak and asks if she finds him sadistic. You can feel her desperation with every second that passes.

 Unlike movies, in a book the writer cannot begin with music and sounds effects. Instead we have to rely on setting the scene with descriptions and just the right words. The first twenty words of a story have the capacity to catapult your book into either the stratosphere or oblivion.  That’s some powerful ammo there.

 Best Selling Author, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, writes the following unforgettable opening in the book, Call Me Irresistible.

  Read this and you will ask these three questions afterwards.

Why?

How did this come about?

What is going to happen next?

  It wasn’t every day a guy saw a headless beaver marching down the side of a road, not even in Dean Robillard’s larger than life world. “Son of a”" Dean slammed on the brakes of his brand new Aston Martin Vanquish and pulled over in front of her.

The beaver marched right past, her big flat tail bouncing in the gravel, and her small, sharp nose stuck up in the air. Way up. The beaver looked highly pissed.

When a writer begins a book, the opening can sometimes take longer to put together than the entire first chapter.  Although one may know how to begin to tell the story, the opening scene is not always as clear.

 Here are some pointers for writing the engaging first scene. 

1. Start the story and stop abruptly.  Read the first couple of sentences, if they do not set the story up then place your curser at the beginning and start again.

 2. Sometimes the first paragraphs are not necessary. Go ahead and write them, if they are storytelling, then save it for back-story.  Usually the second scene a writer pens is the important one.

 3. Lastly, talk it out with friends, narrate the first scene and then ask them how do they see this scene opening up?  I got an excellent start to a couple of my books that way.

 Here is start to my current WIP, Forever Knight. Does it draw you to ask the three questions?

 Five hundred years. 

Time was either his best friend or his worst enemy, he wasn’t sure anymore. All the years he’d yearned for freedom. Now it was within his grasp. Did he dare take it?

Hildie McQueen
http://crescentmoonpress.com/books/DesperateBetrayal.html
http://www.hildiemcqueen.com/

Summertime

When I was young, I looked forward to summer like all the other kids. No more school. Staying up late and sleeping in. Spending time outside on a sunny afternoon. Of course, my interpretation of those ideas differed greatly from my neighborhood friends.   Most of them enjoyed riding bikes or playing games like Frisbee or kickball. On an especially hot day, water fights were a given.

 I hung out and played with the others a couple of times a week, but summer meant something completely different to me. I could read anything I wanted all day, every day—even all night if I could stay awake. (Yes, I used the good ‘ole flashlight-under-the-covers trick!) But more often than not, I’d find a quiet place to bury my nose in a book and escape to some foreign place, maybe even another world, with people that had adventures I could only dream of having.                                                                                    Now that I’m…older, things have changed a bit. I have a family and a career. Life is busy. But summer still holds the same charm. The season offers beautiful weather, barbecues with friends and family, and swimming on scorching hot afternoons.

 Of course my love of escaping to foreign places, with people having adventures I can only dream of hasn’t changed—except now I write about those people embroiled in escapades I create in my head. And though I write year round, every season offers its own advantage for creativity.

 Summer’s warm weather allows me the opportunity to grab my laptop, head to the park and sit beneath my favorite tree. Being outdoors, soaking up the sun’s rays while watching everyone else fires up my muse. I’m sometimes surprised by the things my characters do or the direction a story will take!

 When I’m not writing, you can bet I’m reading. Falling into the exciting worlds other authors have created—because every story offers something unique. Each one satisfies my craving for a wild journey filled with interesting places, fascinating characters, or passionate relationships that touch my heart.

 So why don’t you join me beside the pool?         

 You didn’t bring a book?

No problem.

I’ve got just the story for you.

It’s a new paranormal world where an immortal woman’s search for her genetic origin places her squarely in harm’s way, not one but two men possess amazing psychic abilities that help keep the mortal population safe from other preternatural creatures that never play by the rules, and a love triangle that offers soul mates a match—if they’re brave enough to take a chance.

 Moonlight Bleu. Available now.

Print:  http://www.amazon.com/Moonlight-Bleu-Renee-Rearden/dp/0982306563/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1310235258&sr=8-1

 EBook:  http://www.amazon.com/Moonlight-Bleu-ebook/dp/B003XT5R12/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1310235258&sr=8-2

 Nook:  http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/moonlight-bleu-renee-reardon/1027386147?ean=9780982306574&itm=1&usri=moonlight%2bbleu