TITLE OF FIRST BOOK: Looks Are Deceiving (Siren Publishing),
RELEASE DATE: May 19th, 2008
FAVORITE WRITING STORY/SAYING/MEMORY: This is my POV helper: You Never See Everything. And that reminds of the important limitations of Point-of-View and to play on them.
My Favorite Sayings: I have these printed and hung on my wall. They’ve changed my life.
Creative people are committed to risk. The creative person always walks two steps into the darkness. Everyone can see in the light … the real heroes delve in the dark. – Albert Einstein
Creativity is the greatest of all human beauties. – Crystal Drake
Success doesn’t “happen”. It is organized, pre-empted, captured, by concentrated common sense. – F.E. Williard
Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances. It was somebody’s name, or he happened to be there at the right time, or it was so then, and another day would have been otherwise.
Strong men believe in cause and effect. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Evil triumphs when good men look away. – Edmund Burke
COMFORT FOOD: Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream, preferably Breyers, all-natural, less calories. Ice cream monsters like me has to watch those calories.
COMFORT READ: Discover Magazine. If it's late, my postman gets the Evil Eye until it's delivered. The degree of my busy-ness can be measured by my progress through Discover Magazine. Anything less than having gone through a single issue front-to-back several times means I'm bust-booty busy.
YOUR PERFECT DAY: My perfect day is 18 hours of writing, wearing pajamas, armed with mint chip ice cream and ice cream cones, and the room to gain a pound. No phone calls, no pressing e-mail. Just writing.
WHAT ARE YOU WORKING ON NOW?: I’m working hard to get back to two projects.
I’m writing a 1st Person POV Sci-Fi short story called Zero-G, and a full-length Sci-Fi Romance Action Adventure called Alien Whip, and I can’t wait to get back to that!
NEXT RELEASE: No Funny Stuff!, The Wild Rose Press, August.
Thanks for stopping by, Michele!
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Good morning, Kate, and everyone!
I hope we're all having fabulous and productive days. Nothing makes me happier than getting things accomplished and marking them off that To-Do list, which is always longer than it should be. Keeps me out of trouble.
Check out my newest project, No Funny Stuff!, a tale for Thalia, the Muse of Comedy. No Funny Stuff! is part of a fabulous novella anthology called Song of the Muses, 9 tales of Romance for the 9 Muses of Inspiration.
Here's a neat page for Song of the Muses:
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Follow all the muses' links to their individual MySpace pages for fun! Tons of great things to read, contests, pictures, excerpts!
Here's Thalia's MySpace page:
http://www.myspace.com/thaliamuseofcomedy
That MySpace was a blast to write!
Hop in and blab on my blog day!
Say hi and join in on the fun!
Get inspired!
Hugs,
Michele
Oh, we Muse writers love these covers! Check them all out right here!
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Song of the Muses is an awesome collection I’m proud to be a part of!
Crazed for a Smoothie!
(Wow! That sounded sexy...or is it just my dirty mind that thinks so?)
10am and I'm blending a smoothie. There isn't a rule against it like alcohol.
"Never before noon."
I'm addicted. I shiver to consider adding up the cost of my everyday smoothies. It can get costly when a hobby becomes a habit.
Shaking a smoothie addiction is harder than it would seem, especially if you're going all the way and adding yogurt. No rehabs for smoothie addiction. I've checked.
And when you want a smoothie and can't have one, everyone you see is enjoying a smoothie.
I’m thrilled to present my recent release LOOKS ARE DECEIVING, an Erotic Romantic Suspense brought to you by Siren Publishing. Looks Are Deceiving debuted at #3 on Siren’s Bestsellers List and stayed at #5 on the 30-Day List for a month, which thrilled me!
Here's the blurb:
All shadows and mystery,
Elissa Baker’s in hot pursuit
of something bigger, uglier,
and meaner than Greg Moretti,
and she keeps her destiny with the scum of the Earth a closely guarded confidence.
Only Greg
--muscles, brains, and passion—
can wreck her long-laid path by being Mister Right and refusing to let her go.
How can she resist her Latin lover’s
dark-chocolate eyes
always arresting her,
his hypnotic lure stealing her soul,
and dealing lusty persuasion
like trump cards in a fixed bet?
Restauranteur Greg Moretti is
crazy for a woman who
leads a smoke-and-mirrors life.
He’ll fix that by cooking up
some heat,
triggering a little hunger, and melting the ice-wall protecting her soul.
Elissa will need to choose
between Greg and the criminal world.
What keeps her from his total consumption?
Why does Elissa keep so many secrets?
Greg will take no hostages
nor will he back down from his chase
until he identifies his competition and
makes Elissa
want him more than her other distractions.
Good boys can be bad too…
and lethal to the heart.
The serendipitous solution to the cold-case murder of Greg’s father
leads to a gun battle that changes everything.
Who invited the Mob?
Someone’s going to lose, and someone’s going to die.
Another someone.
Everything changes with the pull of a trigger. Nothing looks the same after this....
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Available NOW in e-book!
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Don’t you love mystery? I do.
Hi Michele
Loved your blog post. Yes, choc chip and mint ice cream does it for me too - well any ice cream does if I'm honest!
That POV helper is excellent too, as well as the favourite sayings.
Have a great Monday
Lyn
Hugs to my Sister Muse, Hywela Lyn, the awesome author of DANCING WITH FATE, an adventure for Terpsichore, the Muse of Dance. DANCING WITH FATE's release is in two weeks. Mark your calendar.
Lyn's a neat person. She lives in the UK, so I feel like I have a sister overseas. The Internet is a miracle, letting us make friends a half-globe away. That's pretty cool. I'm betting I'd have never met half my friends if we'd never had the Net.
Hi Michele! Thanks for hanging out on my blog today. I had fun reading your responses to the MTA Monday questions. It's a nice day here, so the kids and I are walking to the library. I'll stop by later to see what's going on! :)
Hi, Kate,
Glad to hear you're having a nice day. It's a gorgeous day in sunny Florida.
My Inbox is busting with replies!
:-)
My friends are shy.
Congrats on a wonderful story, Michele! I loved every page of Looks Are Deceiving, and can't wait to read Thalia's story!Good luck on your next writing adventure.
Hi Michele,
The blurb for "Looks Are Deceiving" has me hooked. I like mint chocolate chip ice cream, too. Have you ever tried Coldstone Creamery's mint chocolate chip cake? It's awesome, you have to try it.
Oh, yes, Jane, very good Mint Chip. And I'm picky.
I mourn the day Haagen Daz changed their recipe. Everyone, join me in a moment of silence....
Glad you like Looks Are Deceiving's blurb.
I'll toss up an excerpt here, see how that goes.
Action, action, action! Don't you love Action and Suspense?
Here’s an Action Excerpt from my release, LOOKS ARE DECEIVING, an Erotic Romantic Suspense, coming to you from Siren Publishing.
See what reviewers are saying on Siren’s Web site!
Will love cost Elissa all her dreams?
LOOKS ARE DECEIVING * Available NOW in e-book!
Read Hot Excerpts and Fabulous Reviews!
http://www.SirenPublishing.Com/michelehart/lad.asp
ISBN#: 1-60601-045-X
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This excerpt is PG-Rated. All Rights Reserved.
The Wine Thief
Elissa watched his suspicious green eyes roam the cocoa-and-white living room appreciatively. “Greg’s got some pad here.”
His vision fixed on the cases of wine stacked beside the airport-lights sound system and flat-screen TV embedded into the wall. One would’ve thought the electronics would draw a thief’s eye.
This one pointed the gun at the cases of wine, then back to her. “That’s what I’m looking for.”
“You’re holding me at gunpoint for wine? Some alcohol problem you have.”
The man cast her an angry snarl. “Shut up. Don’t be a problem, and you won’t get hurt.”
“I can do that,” she replied, keeping her hands in his sight as not to illicit a bullet. No reason to earn a gunshot wound. She was about to take his gun away, anyway.
Over the man’s shoulder, Elissa spotted the front door easing open, and she saw Greg stick his head in. He eyed the man, then slid back noiselessly behind the door. His sudden appearance changed everything.
Now Elissa wasn’t sure how to keep everyone from injury.
The stranger ordered her, “You’re going to pick up those cases and put them in the trunk of my car.”
Elissa shook her head, gambling, now hoping to exclude his gun from the action entirely, avoiding any physical struggle altogether. He’d need to put down the gun to pick up the wine. “I can’t lift them. I tried earlier.”
Her assailant gave her a nasty grimace. “What do you mean you can’t lift them? They can’t be over thirty pounds.”
She shrugged her shoulders, taking in his posture, sizing up his every move, an eye out for some advantage she could exploit or an unexpected aggressive motion. “I have a bad back. I’m bound to drop a case and shatter the bottles.”
Clearly frustrated, the man tucked the gun into his holster on his belt, exactly what she needed him to do. Then he grabbed hold of her upper arm and hauled her over to the window where he ripped the pull cord from the glass door’s mini-blinds. In his rough handling, she spotted Greg skulking through the front door to duck behind the island of the kitchen.
The wine thief shoved her to the floor at the metal-and-glass coffee table, and he wrapped the cord around her wrists without a fight from her. She focused on keeping her assailant’s attention on her so he wouldn’t pick up the small sounds of Greg passing over the tiled kitchen floor.
“You know, you can get help for the alcohol problem,” she said, watching over the gunman’s shoulder as Greg surfaced on the other side of the island and slipped into a door beyond.
“I know a few places you could get help. You just really have to commit to it—”
“Shut up.”
“Got ya, shutting up.”
Having tied her rather insecurely to the table, the armed man then grabbed hold of two of the stacked cases, one atop the other, and he hauled the cases outside. Wordless, she watched Greg slip from the bedroom, a Glock-22 semi-auto in his hand, and he sneaked back into the kitchen to press himself against the refrigerator, shielded by an entranceway wall.
Elissa took a deep breath and thought up a quick prayer. Why would someone, an armed someone, show up at a home to steal three cases of wine, passing up the nicest home theater system she’d ever seen?
When the man stepped back into the house for the third case, he passed the wall Greg hid behind. In one smooth motion, Greg stepped into the hall and pressed the muzzle to the back of the man’s head.
“Don’t move,” Greg told him, stopping the man cold, and the look of surprise on the gunman’s face was profound. “And I won’t shoot you. Move a muscle, and your brains are going to be my new decorating scheme.”
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