Today, authors Bronwyn Green, Jessica Jarman, and Jenny Trout unveil the cover of their upcoming anthology:

If Ever I Would Leave You

(July, 2014)

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Surfacing

Bronwyn Green

A year after Tabby Nolan’s sister vanished from the Lake Michigan shore with her boyfriend, Liam, Tabby visits the spot where the two were last seen– and finds herself pulled into the crumbling world of Avalon.

Since his disappearance, Liam has been trapped in the mythical land, with no link to the world he knew. Now, their shared memories of Tabby’s missing sister are all they can cling to as Avalon dies around them.

But Tabby doesn’t want to be a replacement for her sister, and her growing attachment to Liam feels like a betrayal. As Avalon fades around them, Liam and Tabby must rely on each other– or be lost with the ancient kingdom forever.

Albion’s Circle: The Deepest Cut

Jessica Jarman

For nineteen years, Anna has been plagued by dreams of lives lived only in legend. Finally free from the family that believed her hopeless and worthless, she’s ready to start her life over—alone.

When Anna meets an enigmatic stranger claiming to be the legendary wizard Merlin, she is forced to question the very reality she’s struggled to accept. With the mythic figures from her dreams intruding on her waking life, Anna learns that she’s been reborn to fight an ancient evil alongside King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.

Caught in an ages old conflict, Anna is the key to stopping a dark magic that will destroy the world—and Merlin wants to make sure that this time, Anna isn’t alone.

A Choice Fit For A Queen

Jenny Trout

writing as

Abigail Barnette

For perpetual overachiever Madison Lane, a summer studying Arthurian mythology in the Welsh countryside with professor Thomas Evans is a dream come true, and the adventure of a lifetime.

Of course, the enormous crush Madison developed on the professor after a semester of his lectures at U of M has absolutely nothing to do with her desire to learn more about the enduring legend of Camelot. At least, that’s what she’s telling her parents.

When Madison meets fellow student Rhys Crewe, sparks fly, throwing her plans for wild fling with Professor Evans completely out of whack—as do her unexpectedly complicated feelings for Thomas. With tales of Arthur and Lancelot haunting her every waking moment, Madison has to make the most difficult choice of her life.

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Jessica Jarman is an author, blogger, and rather obsessive fangirl. Having grown up in Upper Michigan and currently living in Minnesota, she is a Midwestern girl through and through. And wouldn’t have it any other way.

When Jessica isn’t working to get words on the page, she passes the time with her amazing husband and four children, attempting to be crafty (and failing miserably), squeeing uncontrollably over her favorite shows or curling up with a good book. 

Bronwyn Green is an author, blogger and compulsive crafter. She lives Michigan with her husband, two sons and three somewhat psychotic cats. When not frantically writing, she can be found helping in her youngest son’s classroom or binge-watching Netflix while working on her latest craft project.

Abigail Barnette (Jenny Trout) is a writer, blogger, and funny person. She has written award winning and bestselling erotic romance as Abigail Barnette. Writing as Jennifer Armintrout, she made the USA Today bestseller list with Blood Ties Book One: The Turning. Her novel American Vampire was named one of the top ten horror novels of 2011 by Booklist Magazine Online. She is a proud Michigander, mother of two, and wife to the only person alive capable of spending extended periods of time with her without wanting to strangle her. Visit her on twitter (@Jenny_Trout) or at her blog, jennytrout.com.

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Okay so this Random Wednesday blog is just what it says above. You couldn’t pay me to . . .  probably do a lot of things. I’m not the most adventurous person, though I will tell you I have danced on a bar in New Orleans so my friends got free drinks. 😉  I’ve also gone into a cave multiple times of my own free will. I live in Kentucky and we have the largest cave-system in the world here, Mammoth Cave. It is pretty spectacular.

Anyway, what you couldn’t pay me to do in a million years is jump out of or off of anything. You will never hear me speak about skydiving or bungee jumping or hang-gliding. I am deathly afraid of heights and it takes a lot just to get me into an airplane.So the above picture, yeah never ever ever going to happen. If it did happen, somehow, like if someone tricked me and somehow made me think we were going to a huge bookstore and they were giving away books. Then they told me we had to strap into this contraption because that’s how you got to the bookstore and I stupidly did (which I wouldn’t, but let’s pretend) and then the doors opened and I was presented with the above view. My face would look like this:

Then I would scream and leap back onto someone’s back and wrap my arms around their head. Yep, and this is why you couldn’t pay me, now matter how much money, to jump off of or out of anything.  Besides, if the plane is working, why would you jump out of it????? It’s working!!  And since it’s working you don’t jump out because it would be PURE MADNESS!!!!!!!!

Wow, now that I have that off my chest check out the other Random Wednesday ladies and see what you couldn’t pay them to do.

Bronwyn 
Jessica
Kris
Jenny
Kellie

Until next time!!  –GC

Happy Wednesday!!  Or, as we say from where I’m from . . . Happy Gwensday! 🙂 I want to thank all the amazing Wednesday Bloggers for inviting me to join the fun.

Okay, my latest project is called Dangerous Promise and it’s the 3rd book in the Promises Series. If you haven’t read the other books I highly suggest you do since the other books are really great. And really have I ever steered any of you wrong?? No! I haven’t, so see trust me. The first book is called Dark Promise and the second is A Hunter’s Promise. The covers are way amazing!!

Anyway, this new book is about Grimm and Kate. Grimm’s a vampire and a Hunter working for an organization called the PIA (Paranormal Investigative Agency) think NCIS, but with fangs. The organization is the police of parakind and the Hunters are sort of like Special Forces. They’re sent after the bad of the bad. Kate is a human woman with two small children and she gets pulled into this world Grimm lives in. In the last books I introduced a blood cult that believes that if they drink human blood they will become these powerful beings. Yeah, it just doesn’t work out for them though. Only Hunters can drink human blood. Regular vamps drink a blood substitute so drinking human blood doesn’t do good things to them.  Now the blood addicted are displaying even more oddities and that puts everyone is major danger. New friends are brought in to help and, of course, Kate and Grimm fall in love in in the middle of the madness.

I don’t want to give too much away, but I can tell you I’m well over half way through. I love the world and am already plotting the next book, which I think will be called Broken Promise. But I’ll talk about that later.

Now that you’ve listened to me ramble and ramble it’s time for you to go visit my Random Wednesday peeps:

Bronwyn Green
Jessica Jarman
Jenny Trout
Kris Norris
Kellie St. James
Tess Grant
Leigh Jones

Party On, People!!  –GC

A year or so ago . . . or it could have been last week. Who know? This damn time change has really screwed me up. Anyway, sometime in the past I wrote a post about a crush I had when I was a kid. My very first crush, Tony De Franco of the De Franco Family. *sigh* I think I was maybe 7 or 8, anyway if you get the urge, check them out on YouTube, but remember the lead singer is mine! As I was saying, as it will happen tastes change. I outgrew Tony, who was a mere boy, and found Parker Stevenson.

I loved and love Nancy Drew! I read all the books. My mom bought me the entire set and I read them again. So when they created a show around the series I was all over it. I watched it faithfully. Then came the Hardy Boys. Now I didn’t read those since I didn’t care about boys solving mysteries, but when I saw Parker Stevenson, ohhhhh buddy, did my tiny 11 year old hormones flutter. Whatever night that show came on I was stationed in front of the TV to watch my man solve mysteries. My younger sister loved, loved , loved Shawn Cassidy and he played the younger Hardy Boy. She and I were in total heaven.

And, Parker can totally rock a turtle neck, right?? Oh the acting was superb, I’m sure. But then again I wasn’t watching it for the story now was I?? Nope I just wanted to see my man run and jump and solve mysteries no one else could. As you can tell from the pic they spared no expense with makeup and costumes. And the hair . .. wow, feathered bangs never looked so good.

If you’re asking, what’s the point of this blog? I’ll tell you. Once again, think back to who you had a crush on when you were a kid. If you are STILL dating that kind of person RUN AWAY!!!  And this was my public service announcement for today. You’re welcome

Jeez louise! First it’s been a crazy summer. I’m still with the museum so we just finished with weeks and weeks of summer camps. It was fun. I really love it, but damn is it exhausting. In the middle of all of this, the cable company I’d been with changed to Time Warner. Now usually this wouldn’t affect me. I have DirecTV and couldn’t care less, but and this is huge all my email accounts are of course with the other place. Not I have to struggle to change everything over, which has been a huge pain. I didn’t realize just how much stuff I had coming to me. But I didn’t do it for just one account, but two. I have one under this name and one under my real name . . sort of like Bruce Wayne and Batman, but not that cool. So I have been struggling and nothing has been easy. I think I’ve cursed more tonight than I have all summer long. *hitting head on keyboard* I hate computer stuff. I used to love it, but I don’t anymore. I want stuff to just magically happy. When it doesn’t it totally frustrates me. So here I sit, finally . .. FINALLY back into my blog account after struggling over it for nearly 45 minutes. Now that I’ve done this I am so going to bed. I’m exhausted. LOL

It’s been awhile since I’ve written anything about the museum and, for the record, I am still here and loving it. This past summer has been all about the camps. Did I mention we run summer camps? Yep, and I am in the thick of them. I love summer camp, it is so damn much fun. We craft and goof off and learn and go places and I get paid. I know! I’m stunned too!

Our summer exhibit is Samurai and contains amazing artifacts that can’t be found anywhere else. The stuff here is owned by private collectors and once it goes away, it’s gone. It doesn’t go to another museum, but instead goes back to the owners never to be seen again. So if you’re close to the Frazier History Museum get your boots in to see this thing before it’s gone. The exhibit runs till the end of September. Anyway, we gave 4 summer camps that conntected directly to the exhibit, but we did it more as a cultural look at Japan. The kids loved it and we loved it. I learned some Japanese, did a bunch of crafts, and learned how to Bon dance. I know, I can already tell you all are way jealous.

Now, though, summer camps are over and I always feel antsy. I mean, I’m so used to running from the moment I get here (usually about 7:30) until the moment I leave (usually about 7:00) that I know feel as though I have too much time. Does that make sense? I look around at the work on my desk and get way disappointed it’s not a craft I have to do or a PowerPoint I have to put together. One thing I did have to do yesterday was write a blog post. Since I blog I was nominated by my department to be our permanent blogger. Yeah, I know scary, but normally it’s not a big deal. I just whip it out and move on, but yesterday I was stuck. What to write about???  I hadn’t a clue. Summer camps were over and I hadn’t had a chance to get into anything else. Sooooooo . . . I tossed it out on my Twitter and my lovely friend Jennifer Armintrout suggested Grover Cleveland. Oooookay, since I couldn’t think of anything else, Grover it was. I think the blog turned out pretty good, but next time I hope I can come up with an idea on my own or she’ll suggest something like black holes or the implications of time travel for Dr. Who.

–GC

Yesterday I got up at the buttcrack of dawn to fly back home from the AAD Conference in NOLA. Jeez louise, it sucks. Have I ever mentioned that I hate to fly???  Yeah, I despise it! But getting to the airport at 5am means there’s no crowds and you get through security fairly quickly. I made it home by 3 or so in the afternoon. Had to drop my sister off at her house, stop at the grocery and get meds, whatever.

Anyway, somewhere in my brain I imagined it was a really good idea to go back to work. O_O Yeah, I know. What the hell was I thinking??  The alarm goes off this morning at 7:20 am and I think I hit it like . . . 4 times. So now it’s 7:45 and I stagger up and have to eat breakfast, wash my hair, dry it, get ready . . .yadda yadda. By the time I made it to work I realize that I left my badge at home and I have to buzz security to get into the building. I stop at the soft drink machine and get a Dr. Pepper, which is something I NEVER do, but I had to have caffeine. It didn’t help, but I imagined it would.

I stagger to my office, grunt hello to a co-worker and start my laptop. Another person in my department comes in, takes one look at me, and says, “Maybe you should go home?” LOL! Needless to say, I didn’t last long. I was there maybe 2 hours and then gave up and came home. I fell onto my bed and took a nice 2 hour nap. I still don’t feel great, in fact, if given the option I’d go to bed now (7:56pm) but I think I’ll hold out a bit longer.

All of this rambling, is to say that obviously I don’t travel well. I travel even worse when I get no sleep the entire time I’m away from home. I did get writing done while I was there and I got to hang out with friends and make great new ones, but the not sleeping thing is a major downer.

Tomorrow, tomorrow I’ll be ready to go back to work for real. Right now, I’m just going to sit here with my window open enjoying the breeze and pretending I’m still on vacation.

Okay, so I am currently enjoying the AAD Conference in New Orleans. Let me restate I am enjoying the conference, but NOT New Orleans. There are many reasons, but let me just boil it down to one really gross point . . . Bourbon Street. Bourbon Street is like the asshole on the body that is New Orleans. It is utterly gag worthy. Where else do they hose the streets off each morning to clean the puke off???? Yeah, I’m sure you now get it.

Anyway, we (Bronwyn Greene, Jessica Jarman, Kris Norris, Jennifer Armintrout, Mia Watts, and a bunch of other people) were walking to a place called Huck Finns this morning when it began to thunder. Did I mention the weather has been majorly suck level? Well it has so once again it’s raining. I pop up my umbrella, but I notice the lightning that is accompanying the thunder so this is when I make the request of my bestie Jessica Jarman.

If I get struck by lightning and die do not, DO NOT let them bury me in this .cesspool of the universe. Her reply, “Yeah, dude, you won’t be buried. It’s all above ground crypts.” *sigh* So literal is my friend Jessica. “Okay, whatever,” is my pithy reply, “but don’t let me be stuck here. I never ever want to be stuck here. Make sure I get home. No matter how you gotta do it. Make sure my body gets back to Kentucky.”

Now I’d been to New Orleans before, but I just don’t remember it being this nasty. Of course, we didn’t stay on Bourbon Street and perhaps that’s why I don’t recall it being this yuck. I think we spent a total of a half an hour on the street before my friend Jennifer (not Armintrout) and I called it quits. We were hard core party people back then and we didn’t like it. So now that I’m a tad bit older and spend most of my nights at home writing I really don’t go out.

To end this story, Jess did promise to see me home and make sure I’m cremated. Of course, we survived the storm and I’m back in the hotel. But after walking in the puddles with open-toed shoes I am so going to get a major shot of anti-biotics when I get home.

I can’t believe it’s almost the end of July and I haven’t written in 4 months!!  Totally ridiculous. But my life had been fairly insane. I work as an educator at a history museum and it’s summer camp time. Basically, every week day from 8:45 am to about 4:15 pm I have 16 to 18 kids I’m responsible for. We run around and do art projects and learn about stuff and basically have an awesome time. But because I’m away from home nearly 12 hours each day that doesn’t leave a lot of time for much else.

My house is a total wreck. I wouldn’t even have my sister over it looks so bad. My poor cats barely know me when I get home. And my writing suffers. I did finish a book. Jeez louise, it was a month late, but I finished it. A Hunter’s Promise is done and actually released. Woo hoo!!  I’m currently working on a new book I have tentatively titled Mated. It has nothing to do with the Promise series, but I really want to finish it. I discovered it while I was looking around my computers. The thing has about 24k and I just stopped working on it. Don’t know why I left it, but there you go. So now I’m in the process of updating and rewriting certain parts of it. Once I do that I can finish it. Then I’ll have finished 3 books this year. Wooooo!!  Go Gwen.