Irene Rose's CHARCOAL AND HOT CHOCOLATE

Hey guys!

Yeah, I'm taking a break from pimping Eyre House, so I can pimp my friend Irene Rose. Her debut Charcoal and Hot Chocolate came out at the beginning of the month. I helped with the cover reveal a little while ago, but here it is again with the blurb:

College life is a breath of fresh air for 20 year old Ellie Baylor, a painfully shy but beautiful art major. She has her canvas and charcoal and that's more than enough. Her choice to go to school far from home and the watchful eye of her strict parents seems like the perfect thing for smooth sailing into an easy life. But when River Daniels, a charming artist with eyes the color of hot chocolate, asks her to join him in a project for class, Ellie may get more than just an A.

She might find out how to live.

Goodreads:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17449168-charcoal-and-hot-chocolate

Fun, huh? You can find Irene on twitter as @authorrosebud and as her alter ego, @anginicole722. You can also find her Facebook Author page here, and her blogs here:

http://adventuresofanewadult.blogspot.com/ (Irene Rose)
http://angiblacktallthoughts.blogspot.com/ (Angi Black)

She's also doing a giveaway of both a paperback and a digital copy, so you should go check it out. ;)

Charcoal and Hot Chocolate can be found in the usual places by following the links below.

Kindle/amazon

Nook/B&N

Kobo

Irene Rose is a dance and performing arts instructor in southern Louisiana. She loves music, life, wine and has an unhealthy crush on the written word. Being the Ambassador of Awesome is hard work, but between that and dance she finds time to write an absurd amount of words each day. Irene writes New Adult books and is already working on her next book. Irene has a passion for recycling and repurposing and hopes you find time to make art everyday.

An Author Page & Teasers

Yesterday was an interesting day.

Up until a day ago, my writing life had been firmly separated from my non-writing life. Which means nobody I knew who wasn't already in the publishing world (with the exception of a few family) had any idea I wrote at all, let alone that Eyre House was coming out.

Yesterday, I made the leap, and told everyone on Facebook. And made an Author page. (You should go 'like' it. In return, you'll get my eternal gratitude!)

And then I posted pretty teasers! You've already seen this one:

But I made a few more, too. Like this one:

and this one:

And let's not forget Evan's abs.

There are 2 more, but you have to go look at the fancy Author page to see them ;)

One Month Teaser & a WINNER!

Yes, lovelies, it's true! Only one month until Eyre House releases. And since this is also my 100th post, I have a special little teaser for you.

And it's all about the bike.

But FIRST!!! I have a WINNER for the signed ARC!

Are you ready? Ready?

Drumroll please...

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Congratulations to...

Lauren Spieller!!!!!!!

Lauren, drop me an email with your contact info!

Ok, so now are you ready for the teaser? Huh? Here we go!

ALSO!

In case you (somehow) missed it, my bestie Leigh Ann has her debut book birthday today! ONE (the story of a girl who's only half super) is available for purchase! Go get a copy!

Amazon Kindle
Paperback (from Amazon)
Special Edition Paperback with comics (from Amazon)
Barnes and Noble Nook
iBookstore
Signed (from her site)
Createspace

Celebrating My Return to the Internet with a Giveaway!

Moving sucks.

Boxing up everything, endless trips between the house and the truck and whatever else. Cleaning. Driving back and forth. Switching over your address on every account you have. More trash than you can fit in the one can the city provides (which means trips to the dump, because it's so much easier to throw things away than to pack it). Oh, and months of unpacking.

Which, in this case, is actually months of NOT unpacking as much as possible. Because this was move 1 of 2. The next one comes in 3-4 months when the new NEW house is built.

But all that pales in comparison (well, maybe not the exhaustion & soreness) to the 6 DAYS WITHOUT INTERNET.

It was insane and tragic and AWFUL.

And to celebrate my return to the land of interconnectivity (and while I recover from moving the world), I'm GIVING AWAY AN ARC of Eyre House!! Just sign up with the lovely little Rafflecopter thingumy below!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Cover Reveal - SUBJECT TO CHANGE

Hello, lovelies!

My fabulous friend Alessandra Thomas has a new book coming out, and I've got the cover for you! But, I have even more, too! It's a twofer day - not only do I have the cover for Subject to Change, Aless's new book, but I also have the redesigned cover for the first book, Picture Perfect!

I know. EPIC.

So. About Picture Perfect (Book 1 in the Picturing Perfect series):

Fashion design major Cat Mitchell has a closet full of gorgeous clothes - and not a single thing fits. After two years of runway modeling for easy cash, an accident shattered her lower leg bone and her self-esteem in just one swift fall. Ten months of no exercise, prescription steroids, comfort eating and yoga pants meant returning to campus as a size twelve instead of her former size two. When her gorgeous long-time friend with benefits sees her for the first time after her accident and snubs her in front of all her friends, Cat’s self-image hits rock bottom. Her sorority sisters all insist that she looks gorgeous, but all Cat sees is the roll of her stomach when she sits down, or the dimpling at the back of her thighs that wasn't there last year. Cat’s therapist prescribes something radical to stop the downward spiral - nude modeling for a nearby college's human form drawing classes. When Cat faces her fears and bares it all for the class, she realizes that she's posing naked in front the most gorgeous, buffest guy she's ever seen in her life. He asks her out after the class, and after one steamy night together, Cat's absolutely smitten. 

Nate’s pretty close to perfect – he takes Cat rock climbing when he discovers that it makes her feel strong and becomes a great chef after he learns that the perfect pesto sauce makes her swoon. Cat starts to feel like her old self again - confident and beautiful - as long as Nate's around. Even when he discourages her from entering the Real Woman Project, a design competition for plus-sized apparel, she reasons that he's just trying to prevent old body image wounds from splitting wide open again. But when Cat goes home with Nate for Thanksgiving, she discovers something shocking from his recent past that proves that he hasn’t always been so encouraging of women of all shapes and sizes. Cat has no idea what to think, but she does know one thing - this might destroy their relationship before it's even had a chance to get off the ground. 

Before Cat can figure out whether the real Nate is the sensitive, adoring guy she fell in love with, or an undercover asshole, she'll have to finally feel comfortable in her own skin - even if it means leaving him forever.

You can find Picture Perfect on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. And look at the pretty cover!!

And what's that next to it? It's Book 2, Subject to Change:

Joey made her dad a deathbed promise that she would become a doctor, and dedicate herself to fighting the very cancer that took his life. There’s just one problem -three years into her pre-med classes, she's struggling to stay on top of the curve, let alone prove she's dazzling enough to earn a spot in an Ivy League medical school. In a Hail Mary move, she throws a basic Business 101 class into her semester schedule, banking on a perfect score to boost her GPA. 

That is, until she’s paired for a final project with Hawk, the bartending, motorbike-riding, gorgeously bedheaded loser who falls asleep in class and communicates in one-word sentences. 

Hawk does whatever he wants, whenever he wants, which sets Joey on edge – in every possible way. As they get to know each other, her urge to scream at him is curbed only by her fantasies of tearing his clothes off. Soon those fantasies become reality, and Joey realizes Hawk makes her feel more fully herself than any of the rich boys her mother and sorority sisters approve of. 

But the promise to her father hangs over her head, and the harder Joey tries to succeed in her chosen career, the faster everything falls into a hopeless tailspin of bad grades, broken promises and guilt. It doesn't help to have Hawk sitting like a devil on her shoulder, insisting she should be free to live however she wants to live - like he does.
The only thing Joey knows is that her neatly organized life is crushing her - and Hawk's bad attitude might be the only thing that can save her.

Sounds fabulous, right?? Well, they are. Trust me. You want these!

Print Proof

There are parts about publishing that really just blow my mind. Like today.

Today, my print proof arrived.

What's a print proof, you ask? Well, it's a test run, basically. A first print, to make sure the typeface works, the cover layout, interior design. All of that, so that you don't order a million copies and realize it's too small to read, or everything's off center, or whatever.

Mine arrived today, way sooner than expected. (Createspace said Friday.)

And it's JUST. SO. PRETTY.

 

Cover Reveal - CHARCOAL AND HOT CHOCOLATE

Things have been crazy on my end of things, getting ARCs formatted and print runs set, contacting reviewers and planning goodies, plus the move-that-never-ends just keeps going on and on...you get the idea.

But!! I have something pretty for you. Another cover. Charcoal and Hot Chocolate, by my friend Irene Rose, comes out NEXT MONTH!! June 4th, to be exact! And she released her cover this week!

Actually, she showed it of on Tuesday, but I'm slow on the uptake. I know, bad friend. But it's pretty, so I'm putting it up here so YOU can see!

Now, "What's Charcoal and Hot Chocolate about?" you say? I'm glad you asked! Here's the blurb:

College life is a breath of fresh air for 20 year old Ellie Baylor, a painfully shy but beautiful art major. She has her canvas and charcoal and that's more than enough. Her choice to go to school far from home and the watchful eye of her strict parents seems like the perfect thing for smooth sailing into a easy life. But when River Daniels, a charming artist with eyes the color of hot chocolate, asks her to join him in a project for class, Ellie may get more than just an A. She might find out how to live.

Ellie's adorable, and River? Mmm. So hot. So go add it to Goodreads!

Oh, wait. You wanted a cover, didn't you? Knock yourself out. Well, not literally. Unless you're into that kind of thing. You know what, never mind. Just enjoy the pretty.