Friday 28 September 2012

Coming Soon ~ Living the Dream by Maxi Shelton


Coming Soon


Living the Dream

by 

Maxi Shelton


Out Oct'12



 



She now knew why she'd never fallen in love before . . . it hurt . . . it hurt a lot.

Claire Labelle A-list movie star had spent most of her life in front of the camera.  On the surface her life was magazine picture perfect.  But behind closed doors Claire dreamt of a normal life away from the flashing lights.

On the eve of her 30th Birthday, Claire finally gathers the courage to follow her dream.

After buying her dream chocolate box cottage in the country, Claire has an unfortunate encounter with her tall sexy neighbour.  Sparks instantly fly between farmer Jack Harris and Claire.

A passionate romance quickly blossoms, until the paparazzi track her down, trampling her dream, and Jack does the unforgivable . . .







Tuesday 18 September 2012

5* Star Amazon Review for Sold into Marriage



5 Star Amazon Review for Sold into Marriage



Excellent Read


I would recommend this book to anybody, it was a lovely love story, l really enjoyed reading this book l couldn't put it down, l couldn't wait to get to the end of the book to see how it ended, l can't wait to read more books by Maxi Shelton as l'm sure they will be just as good as Sold Into Marriage.

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent read18 Sep 2012
By Kirsty ~ taken from www.amazon.co.uk






Monday 10 September 2012

AuthorHouse email marketing campaign with excellent Kirkus Review

AuthorHouse resent Marketing Campaign for

Sold into Marriage

by
Maxi Shelton

With excellent Kirkus Review


"An unwavering bachelor finds himself in an untenable situation in this novel set in the 19th century.  The malt-layered characters encourage you in invest.  For Isabel's stoic resilience to the emotional roller coaster that is Sebastian, this is an enjoyable boy-meets-girl tale" Kirkus Reviews








Sunday 2 September 2012

Guest author blog from Miranda Stock - How To Recycle A Story


Guest author blog from Miranda Stock........ Author of new exciting supernatural romance Erin

Erin 

Erin is the werewolf Queen of Athol Castle. She has no memories of the events of a few months ago, where she believed herself to be a psychologist, and met the enigmatic and charming Conner...

Filtiarn has taken over Conner’s body once more, and is relishing being in control. Cruel and sensual, he decides to work on a plan...to take over humanity. He begins a war...of werewolves against humans. But unknown to him, Conner is fighting against him within his own body, to set things right, and to bring Erin back from her own darkness. He tries to undo a great mistake from long ago, using Erin’s famed sword, Sioctine, as remnants of his own memory come back to him, opening up the present he now lives in.

At the same time, another enemy is using the situation to their advantage, following the werewolves at every turn, threatening to undo everything that Conner is struggling to obtain...

But will he be able to bring Erin back from Filtiarn’s grasp, or is it too late? And will he be able to stop the war against the humans progressing?

And who is threatening to take over not only the humans, but the werewolves as well?




How To Recycle A Story

As I’ve been searching through several cool books on Amazon in the last few days, I’ve been considering something interesting. How do we writers make our stories so different from other stories before us? Or are we simply recycling them in some way?

Don’t get me wrong, nobody is getting accused of plagiarism, don’t panic! I’m thinking of something different. I remember being told a long time ago at primary school, by a lovely English teacher, that a story I wrote was very like one she had seen somewhere in a children’s book. I was quite upset, and pretty threw a small tantrum, muttering something under my breath. She laughed and told me not to worry about it, that it was actually a good thing. By copying parts of it unconsciously, it meant I had read lots of books, the integral part of being a successful writer.

While that made me happy that I was well on the way to being the next Stephen King (I wish!), it made me worry that no-one would ever find my stories interesting if they had already read it elsewhere in a different form. Surely, I thought, the point of writing is to aim for a reach that holy grail of writing, the Original Idea?

At least it is for me, and maybe it’s a ridiculous thing to aim for. Every time I see a story that is even slightly like mine in plotline, I have to change my entire manuscript. I want to have that single book that no-one has read yet, the one that they read and gasp, “I didn’t even realise how much I wanted to read this!” But perhaps my books are always going to be a little similar to others, especially as it slips neatly into the Paranormal Fantasy/Romance genres, meaning it must have similarities to other books.

But maybe that’s a good thing? All writers and readers head towards the end of the novel with two thoughts; to find out what happens, and the unconscious desire to make the characters come to life. When a reader hits the last page, and nobody has leapt out brandishing a sword, or sweeping past the flatscreen in their crinoline dress, they need that feeling again. So they start another book with similar characters, hoping this might be the one to jumpstart them out from the pages.