• book launch,  Books,  life,  my view

    Tis The Season!

    Hello Dear Peeps! How are you all?

    I can’t believe it’s been so long since I’ve checked in and I apologize. November has been an incredibly busy and stressful month, but I’m happy to be back home and get started on the crazy of the holiday season with all of you.

    And speaking of the holidays it’s time for me to get going with making those holiday donuts (see how I was dying to work that pun and these pics into this post) because my first single title release will be out at the end of this month and it will be busy, busy, busy in the best of ways!

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    On 12/27 INSERT GROOM HERE will be HERE!! Yay! Have you pre-ordered your copy yet? Well please do and be one of the first in the know (all the cool kids are doing it- if hat kind of peer pressure works on you).

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    You can Pre-order INSERT GROOM HERE at any of these retailers.

    Kensington: http://bit.ly/2eh61Vb

    Amazon: http://amzn.to/28Mbqk3

    iBooks: http://apple.co/28RPaWU

    Barnes and Noble:  http://bit.ly/2gwFuas

    Kobo: http://bit.ly/2g8Fhtp

    Also congrats go out to Michael S. for being last month’s 25.00 Newsletter contest winner. Please fill out the links to the right and sign up for my newsletter if you have not already so that you can be sure to get links to the next contest. I hope you all are well and let’s rock this busy holiday month out together!

     

    Best,

    Kwana

  • authors,  book launch,  Books,  interviews,  Uncategorized

    Time For A Change- Author Interview with Sonali Dev

     

    Today on ye old blog I’m proud to welcome bestselling author of THE BOLLYWOOD BRIDE and THE BOLLYWOOD AFFAIR, Sonali Dev. Today Sonali is here to talk about her latest release, A CHANGE OF HEART.

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    Hi Sonali, thanks so much for being here on ye old blog today. It’s a real honor and a treat.

    Thanks so much for having me!

    First off can you tell us a bit about A CHANGE OF HEART?

    It’s the story of Dr. Nikhil Joshi who lost his wife two years ago in a horribly tragic crime, and Jess, the woman who claims to have his wife’s heart in a transplant. It’s basically a journey into healing from loss and trauma and coming out into the light.

    Here’s the blurb from the back of the book:

    Dr. Nikhil ‘Nic’ Joshi had it all—marriage, career, purpose. Until, while working for Doctors Without Borders in a Mumbai slum, his wife, Jen, discovered a black market organ transplant ring. Before she could expose the truth, Jen was killed.

    Two years after the tragedy, Nic is a cruise ship doctor who spends his days treating seasickness and sunburn and his nights in a boozy haze. On one of those blurry evenings on deck, Nic meets a woman who makes a startling claim: she received Jen’s heart in a transplant and has a message for him. Nic wants to discount Jess Koirala’s story as absurd, but there’s something about her reckless desperation that resonates despite his doubts.

    Jess has spent years working her way out of a nightmarish life in Calcutta and into a respectable Bollywood dance troupe. Now she faces losing the one thing that matters—her young son, Joy. She needs to uncover the secrets Jen risked everything for; but the unforeseen bond that results between her and Nic is both a lifeline and a perilous complication.

    Delving beyond the surface of modern Indian-American life, acclaimed author Sonali Dev’s page-turning novel is both riveting and emotionally rewarding—an extraordinary story of human connection, bravery, and hope.

    What inspired you to write this story?

    Nikhil and his wife Jen were major secondary characters in my previous book, The Bollywood Bride, which was a book that lived inside my head for many years before it was published, and Nikhil and Jen’s story was always one I knew I was going to write. But Nic and Jen both worked in some of the most disturbed and dangerous parts of the world, they constantly put themselves at risk for their cause.  When I started writing their story, the risks just caught up with them. It happened without me meaning for it to. Then I got obsessed with the idea of healing from unspeakable loss and with the privilege of being able to say things like “I could never live without x, y, or z,” and what happens when we lose a belief so basic. That’s where A Change Of Heart came from.

    Without giving too much away can you tell us how A CHANGE OF HEART ties in with your other books?

    A CHANGE OF HEART (and all my books, really) stand alone. However, we do meet Nikhil and Jen in THE BOLLYWOOD BRIDE first and in that they two books are related. They basically follow the same family and there’s a strong family saga element to all my books.

     

    You go a bit dark in A CHANGE OF HEART, really getting deep into emotions. What made this an important story for you to write right now? 

    I think we all cherish our families and loved ones and live with a deep-seeded fear of losing all that. One part of telling stories is exploring situations that disturb us so we can keep the faith that everything is surmountable and to keep our lives hopeful even when we see horrific things going on in the world. That’s at the heart of it, I think. I wrote this dedication to my children for A CHANGE OF HEART and I think it says it all:

    For Mihir and Annika, because I want you

    to believe that every darkness can be overcome.

    And because you are the brightness that lights up my world.

     

     

    Ok now I’m in tears. Thank you for sharing that.

    This next question is a favorite of mine. Care to share the story of your “overnight” success with my readers?

    I’m one of those writers who didn’t discover her love for writing suddenly or serendipitously. I’ve written and loved to write for as long as I can remember. But making a life as a writer was one of those dreams that somehow always seemed like a pie in the sky. So while I went to architectural school so I could have a ‘real’ career, I continued to pursue my ‘hobby’. But the need to write was so strong I found myself quitting my job at my architectural firm to work for an architectural magazine within months of graduating.

    So, really, for me the true journey was going from business writing and journalism to fiction, and that flip happened when I was talking to my best friend who is a movie producer. She was complaining about the scripts she’d been reading and we both said, ‘Well, how hard can it be to write a good movie?’ Famous last words, right?

    I wrote my first script for her within a month and then wrote several after that. None of these ever got made into movies (answering our ridiculously arrogant question with all the delicacy of a tight slap).

    But once I’d caught the fiction bug I couldn’t shake it off. The high of creating characters and putting them through the ringer and watching them triumph was a drug like no other.

    My kids were babies then and I wrote everywhere. When they napped, at playgroup, at the park. As they grew, I wrote at soccer fields, on swimming pool bleachers, in math class waiting rooms, and in parking lots large and small. I still get a lot of my writing done in parking lots outside my kids’ various activities.

    But my quest to get published didn’t start in earnest until I completed my first manuscript, The Bollywood Bride, in 2010 and joined the Romance Writers of America (RWA). After that it was all crazed obsession. I spun in the edit/query/get rejected loop incessantly for three years before I sold The Bollywood Bride following an impromptu pitch to my editor in the middle of a Kensington spotlight at The Chicago Spring Fling conference.

     

    Lastly, what can readers expect next from you?

    My next book is a Rapunzel story about a girl who’s been locked up in a sterile room for 12 years waiting to find a cure for her illness and a boy who’s been a servant in her home and her only friend and her eyes to the world, and how they navigate the real world when she’s finally free.

     

    And now here’s a short excerpt from A CHANGE OF HEART:

    Nikhil’s head felt like someone had squeezed it through a liquidizer. Whiskey burn stung his brain as if he had snorted the stuff instead of pouring it down his gullet. He leaned into the polished brass railing, letting the wind pummel his face. The ship, all twenty-four floors of behemoth decadence, was like the damn Burj Al Arab speeding across the Caribbean. And yet the only way to know they were moving was to watch the waves. His fingers released the glass sitting on the railing and it flew into the night, disappearing long before it hit the inky water.

    He imagined hopping on the railing, imagined being that glass. Boom! And it would be over. Finally, there’d be peace.

    The sky was starting to ignite at the edges, as though the glass of Jack he’d just tossed into the night had splattered amber flecks across the horizon. It would go up in flames soon. All of it orange and gold when the sun broke through the rim of the ocean. It was time for him to leave. The last thing he needed was the mockery of another breaking dawn.

    “Sir, why don’t you stay and watch today?” A man leaned on his mop, staring at Nikhil from under his windblown hair, that tentative, guilty look firmly in place. The look people couldn’t seem to keep off their faces when they talked to Nikhil—the one that announced, rather loudly, that they were terrified of intruding. Because The Pathetic Dr. Joshi with the giant hole in his heart might break down right before their eyes.

    “Very beautiful it is, no?” The man pointed his chin at the burgeoning sunrise that had just pumped Nikhil’s lungs full of pain and waited for a response. But while the blazing pain in Nikhil’s heart was functioning at full capacity, the booze incapacitated his tongue. He wanted to react, wanted to have a conversation with the man who was obviously starved for it. He searched for words to say, but he came up empty.

    Now there was a word: empty.

    Still empty after two years.

     

    Thanks so much for being here today. It’s been a real pleasure.

    Thanks, Kwana!

    Sonali can be found at these places on the web. Please check her out:

     

    Facebook.com/SonaliDev.author

    Twitter— @Sonali_Dev

    sonalidev.com

    Newsletter—http://eepurl.com/O4xA5

    Goodreads.com/sonalidev

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    And don’t forget to pick up your copy of A CHANGE OF HEART!

    Amazon: http://amzn.to/2cbMK70

    BN: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/9781496705747

    Kobo: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/a-change-of-heart-28

    BAM: http://www.booksamillion.com/search?query=9781496705747&where=All

    IndieBounnd: http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781496705747

    Target: http://www.target.com/s?searchTerm=A+Change+of+Heart

    Walmart:  https://www.walmart.com/ip/A-Change-of-Heart/52609083

    Hudson Booksellers: http://www.hudsonbooksellers.com/book/9781496705747

    All the best,

    KMJ

     

  • #WeNeedDiverseRomance,  book launch,  Books,  Holiday Temptation

    Dreams realized- Holiday Temptation in the wild!

    Ok so this happened. HOLIDAY TEMPTATION came out and no fooling, the publishers weren’t kidding with me, but it is out and in bookstores just like they said.

    At this point in my career seeing my name on a book on a shelf was still something I dreamed of but it had become a dream in the far back corner or my mind, about two feet to the left and behind the box that says ‘GET BACK TO COLLEGE GRADUATION WEIGHT’. But today I went into my local Barnes and Noble, the one I’d been in countless times before with my dear twins since they were tiny tots, and there it was. Right up high on the romance shelves, face out no less with the other new releases.

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    Holy crap HOLIDAY TEMPTATION was there! And it was next to Hannah Howell and one book over from Madeline Hunter. The way I nearly swooned one would think I’d taken to day drinking. But this feeling was better than any drink. This was the feeling of a dream not deferred, but one come true after years of hard work, more rejections than I could count or take so I just stopped counting them, and a determined spirit and faith that boarded on nonsensical so only those with faith or little sense would dare understand.

    Thank you all for sticking with me and understanding.

    Now what to do with that blasted GRADUATION WEIGHT box?

     

    All the best,

    KMJ

  • book launch,  Books,  K.M. Jackson,  Uncategorized,  writing life

    Holiday Temptation Release Day is here!!!

    It’s release day! It’s release day!

    We’re gonna party like it’s release day!!

    Yippee today is the day that HOLIDAY TEMPTATION comes out with the super fab Donna Hill, Farrah Rochon and Meeee!!!! I promise you I’m not twelve years old but this book coming out has me that excited. It’s my first mass market in store release so besides being excited you’ll find me going through all he emotions…

    Excitement over the release…

    Fear- (will they like me?)…

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    Overwhelming joy because hey, I’m in a book with two amazing authors and I’m in stores. I need to rock this moment!

    Reactions excited great awesome oprah

    So don’t mind me if a blabber on this week. First don’t happen everyday. Now please excuse me while I head to some bookstores to scope out HOLIDAY TEMPTATION ON THE SHELVES….

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    gifs thanks to giphy.com & realitytvgifs.tumblr.com

    Feel free to join me or check out HOLIDAY TEMPTATION wherever books are sold.

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    Tis the season to satisfy your holiday desires with this festive trio of sexy stories…

    A GIFT OF LOVE Donna Hill

    Drama professor Traci Long spends her free time at the CoffeeMate café, pursuing her true passion—writing her own plays. Meanwhile, sexy barista Noah Jefferson is doing his best to distract her. But once they get involved, past betrayals make Traci wary. She’s right that Noah is keeping something from her—but it might be something that will make this Christmas as sweet as a rave review—and steamier than her favorite chai latté…

    HOLIDAY SPICE Farrah Rochon

    A Christmas-time tragedy took photographer Miranda Lawson’s holiday spirit with it. Since then, she’s traveled the world, determined to outrun her demons. This year she’s off to Istanbul. But the scenery isn’t the only gorgeous site she spots through her camera lens….Kyle Daniels loves Christmas, but he’s looking for escape too—and soon he and Miranda find it in each other’s arms. Yet their connection doesn’t end there. Maybe staying put isn’t such a bad idea after all—especially when there’s someone to celebrate with…

    FROM HERE TO SERENITY K.M. Jackson

    Unstoppable real-estate developer Ross Montgomery is under orders to get some holiday R&R. A cruise to Miami on his yacht, “The Serenity,” is the perfect place to start—especially when he meets his new personal chef, Essie Bradford. Between her calming presence, her amazing food, and her delectable beauty, Ross just might develop a taste for the good life. And when the two discover they have a lot in common—including an irresistible attraction—the next course may be a spicy New Year…

    Click below to check out HOLIDAY TEMPTATION at your favorite e-tailer

    Amazon http://amzn.to/2drIf9a

    iTunes http://apple.co/28Otxsv

    Barnes and Noble http://bit.ly/2d9lSWA

    Indie Bound http://bit.ly/2d9mLP1

    BAM http://bit.ly/2daBBTd

    Walmart http://bit.ly/2dbI6sY

    Kensington  http://bit.ly/2d6S4dn

     

     

    All the best,

    KMJ

  • authors,  book launch,  Books,  guest posts,  guests

    Tell No Lies… Guest Post from LaQuette!

    Today on ye old blog I’m thrilled to have my friend, chaptermate, and she just happens to be RWA/NYC’s Golden Apple Award Winning Author Of The Year 2016, LaQuette guest posting to tell us about her latest release LIES YOU TELL. Congrats and thank so much for being with us LaQuette!

     

    Lies You Tell
    by
    LaQuette 

    Blurb:
    A mob boss finding his dead lover alive six years after her
    death, shocking.  Learning they’ve got a
    five-year-old son…deadly.

     

    Six years ago Sanai Ward fled her life in Florida when her
    lover’s infidelity nearly brings her life to a fiery end.  Scared and devastated, Sanai starts over from
    nothing, determined to create a safe and happy life for the child she discovers
    she’s carrying.
    Single parenthood isn’t easy. But the joy of watching her
    beloved Nazario thrive is more than enough motivation to ignore the ache in her
    heart for the man that shattered her soul.
    Dante De Luca is a passionate man who’s had his life stolen
    from him.  Six years ago he was in love
    and happy, until his woman was killed in a fire. Sanai was gone.  There was nothing left in the ashes but the
    locket he’d placed around her neck.  Too
    angry to deal with his loss, Dante seeks to make the rest of the world pay for
    his broken heart by forming an unholy covenant with an unspeakable ally.  He knows he’ll live to regret it, but signing
    away your humanity to the devil seems meaningless when your soul is already
    gone.
    When an accident involving a family member draws Dante to
    New York, and forces an unexpected meeting between he and Sanai, Dante has to
    decide what’s more important.  His rage
    and revenge, or the safety of the woman he once loved and the health of their
    son?
    Just when Sanai’s deception is beginning to sting less,
    Dante is faced with the fallout of his own lies.  Will she forgive him?  Will they survive them, or will their lives
    become tragic casualties of the dangerous lies he told?

     

     

    Excerpt:

     

    He’d been overwhelmed with love. She hadn’t said it to him,
    still hadn’t, but he saw it in every other way possible. The fact that she’d carved
    out a space for him in her home—several spaces to be exact—marked his
    permanence, his residence in her life.
    He sat next to her on the bed, hating the fact he couldn’t
    remain there pressed against her. He leaned down and placed a loving kiss on
    tender lips. “Take care of yourself. Take care of my boy.”
    “As long as you agree to get back here as soon as possible,”
    she answered through their kisses.
    “Then we have no worries…because  that’s
    exactly my plan.”
    He kissed her again, deeply this time, savoring her taste. He
    intended to be home late tonight or early tomorrow morning, but even that short
    expanse of time was too much to be away from her.
    Mi mancherà mentre
    non ci sono…mi piace quando torno
    ,” he whispered to her before stealing one
    last kiss.
    “What does that mean?” she asked. “You say it every time you
    leave.”
    He only spoke bits and pieces of Italian around her. He knew
    Nazario understood quite a bit from spending so much time in Mrs. Rossi’s care.
    He never wanted Sanai to feel as if he was excluding her, so he only ever spoke
    English in her presence.
    “Miss me while I’m gone…love me when I return.”
    She pulled herself up, leaning against the headboard for
    support. He could see there was so much emotion building up behind her open
    stare. He didn’t press. The truth was he didn’t need the words. These moments
    they shared together told him more than any words in any language could ever
    convey. He was stamped across her heart, and no one and nothing would ever
    change that.

     
     
     
    Author Bio:
    LaQuette is an erotic, multicultural romance author of M/F and
    M/M love stories.  Her writing style brings intellect to the drama.
    She often crafts emotionally epic, fantastical tales that are deeply pigmented
    by reality’s paintbrush. Her novels are filled with a unique
    mixture of savvy, sarcastic, brazen, and unapologetically sexy characters
    who are confident in their right to appear on the page.
    This bestselling Erotic Romance Author is the 2016 Author of the
    Year Golden Apple Award Winner, 2015 Swirl Awards Bronze Winner in
    Romantic Suspense, and 2015 Georgia Romance Writers Maggie Award Finalist in
    Erotic Romance. LaQuette—a native of Brooklyn, New York—spends her time catering
    to her three distinct personalities: Wife, Mother, and Educator.
    Writing—her escape from everyday madness—has always been a
    friend and source of comfort. At the age of sixteen she read her first
    romance novel and realized the genre was missing something: people that looked
    and lived like her.  As a result, her characters and settings are always
    designed to provide positive representations of people of color and various
    marginalized communities.

    She
    loves hearing from readers and discussing the crazy characters that are running
    around in her head causing so much trouble.  Contact her on Facebook,
    Twitter, her website, NovelsbyLaQuette.com, Amazon, her
    Facebook group, LaQuette’s Lounge, and via email at LaQuette@NovelsbyLaQuette.com.
     
     
    Lies You Tell
    Book Trailer
    by
    LaQuette
     
     

    Thanks once again LaQuette and readers don’t forget to check out LaQuette’s latest and her incredible back-list!

    All the best,

    KMJ

  • authors,  book launch,  contests,  guest posts,  guests

    The Devil’s Bedpost- Lena Hart Release Day Guest Post & Giveaway!

    Today on ye old blog I’m welcoming my chapter mate and friend Lena Hart to guest post for the release of her latest THE DEVIL’S BEDPOST.
    DevilsBedpost_A Lena Hart

    Please welcome Lena and let’s get ready to one-click and please enter her giveaway!

     

    *NOW AVAILABLE*
    Limited time sale!
    $4.99 $2.99


    He had it all…
    Good looks. Thriving business. Beautiful fiancée. Life for casino owner David Carrone and his sweetheart Athena Lewis is at its peak—until a scandal of lies, a secret from his past, and an unspeakable tragedy tears a wide rift between them.
    He lost it all…
    With his reputation in question, his business in ruins, and his world crumbling around him, David struggles to protect all he holds dear. But when the most important person in his life is met with danger, he can no longer play by the rules.
    He risked it all…
    Desperate to get back the woman he loves, David recruits the help of some unlikely allies—and become the monster many believe him to be. Because when risking it all for the one you love, sometimes you have to face the devil with a demon…

    Enter Lena’s giveaway!
    To celebrate the release of THE DEVIL’S BEDPOST, she’s giving away a special gift bag that includes exclusive swag. Enter the Rafflecopter below for a chance to win!

    Find Lena on…

     

     

    a Rafflecopter giveaway

    All the best,
    KMJ

  • book launch,  K.M. Jackson,  writing life

    Love Is In The Air… Insert Groom Here & Holiday Temptation!

    I could not be more thrilled to finally show off the cover of INSERT GROOM HERE which is book #1 in my Unconventional Brides series to be released from Kensington Books- 12/27! It’s up for pre-order now along with HOLIDAY TEMPTATION my Kensington debut in which I have a novella featured called From Here To Serenity, out 9/27 with the amazing Donna Hill and the fabulous Farrah Rochon. To say I’m on top of the world is an understatement!

     

    Insert Groom Here Cover revised FINAL

     

    Here is a bit about INSERT GROOM HERE:

    Tired white lace, rote promises, same-old ceremonies—some brides have no time for that. They’ll break the rules, turn tradition into straight-up scandal—and improvise as much as it takes to turn their wildest wedding dreams into real love…

    Eva Ward has won a lavish wedding on the nation’s hottest morning show and can’t wait to kick off her
    happily-ever-after in style. Too bad her fiancé backs out on-air—and cameraman Aidan Walker makes sure her private meltdown goes viral, down to the last couch-kicking moment. The only way Eva can save face and keep her perfect nuptial plans on track is to star in a new “find-a-groom” reality segment. But finding Mr. Right in one month means ignoring her handsome new producer—none other than Aidan himself—and getting their instant, exasperating attraction out of her system…

    Eva soon finds there’s a lot more to Aidan than freewheeling charm. But one glimpse of his caring side can’t make up for off-camera politics, Aidan’s own secrets—or Eva’s fear that they’re too different to ever trust each other. So it’s time for her to flip this script, write twists no one will see coming—and risk her heart to get the real thing

    You can pre-order INSERT GROOM HERE at these e-tailers

    Amazonhttp://amzn.to/28Mbqk3

    iBooks: http://apple.co/28RPaWU

    Barnes and Noble: http://bit.ly/28Ou2Tz

    Holiday Temptation cover med

    Here is a bit about HOLIDAY TEMPTATION:

    ’Tis the season to satisfy your holiday desires with this festive trio of sexy stories…

    A GIFT OF LOVE Donna Hill
    Drama professor Traci Long spends her free time at the CoffeeMate café, pursuing her true passion—writing her own plays. Meanwhile, sexy barista Noah Jefferson is doing his best to distract her. But once they get involved, past betrayals make Traci wary. She’s right that Noah is keeping something from her—but it might be something that will make this Christmas as sweet as a rave review—and steamier than her favorite chai latté…

    HOLIDAY SPICE Farrah Rochon
    A Christmas-time tragedy took photographer Miranda Lawson’s holiday spirit with it. Since then, she’s traveled the world, determined to outrun her demons. This year she’s off to Istanbul. But the scenery isn’t the only gorgeous site she spots through her camera lens….Kyle Daniels loves Christmas, but he’s looking for escape too—and soon he and Miranda find it in each other’s arms. Yet their connection doesn’t end there. Maybe staying put isn’t such a bad idea after all—especially when there’s someone to celebrate with…

    FROM HERE TO SERENITY K.M. Jackson
    Unstoppable real-estate developer Ross Montgomery is under orders to get some holiday R&R. A cruise to Miami on his yacht, “The Serenity,” is the perfect place to start—especially when he meets his new personal chef, Essie Bradford. Between her calming presence, her amazing food, and her delectable beauty, Ross just might develop a taste for the good life. And when the two discover they have a lot in common—including an irresistible attraction—the next course may be a spicy New Year…

    You can pre-order HOLIDAY TEMPTATION here at these e-tailers:

    Amazon: http://amzn.to/28MD68O

    iBooks: http://apple.co/28Otxsv

    Barnes and Noble: http://bit.ly/28MpThC

    Thanks so much for taking this ride with me!

    All the best,

    KMJ

  • 80's,  book launch,  Books,  my view,  Romancing The Fashionista

    If you could turn back time… Romancing The Fashionista is here!

    Blows horns and throws confetti because today is a release day!!!

    I’m so excited to announce that my novella ROMANCING THE FASHIONISTA is out today!

    I hope that readers enjoy ROMANCING as much as I enjoyed writing it. It’s a whimsical, sexy and I hope funny romp that takes the reader back in time to the not so carefree school days and explores the hopefulness of a second chance romance.

    Like with most of my stories the idea started in a small grain of reality. I call it my ‘BEEP you Facebook’ story as found myself one day being tagged with a way back when photo and wanting to jump though the computer to pull it back and there was the little germ needed for me to get to writing a romance.

    Kwana Before and after 2

    Here’s a bit about ROMANCING THE FASHIONISTA:

    Manhattan fashion maven and magazine editor Melinda Mitchell shuns the social media spotlight. That is, until a tipsy girl’s night out ends with her first Facebook account and a friend request from none other than her secret high school crush, Nolan Parker.

    When Nolan lost his chance at the big leagues, he signed on with Doctors Without Borders and never looked back. Now he’s back home to help out his ailing father. Running into Mel at his fifteen-year high school reunion rekindles old feelings he thought he’d buried for good.

    Intrigued by Nolan’s irresistibly sexy profile, Melinda heads to the reunion with her best friend to see if the picture matches up to the man. Their instant attraction flares brighter than the Manhattan skyline.

    Although the tough fashionista and accomplished ex-jock rub each other the very right way, a few stumbling blocks will decide if the heat between them is a symptom of forever love, or a past that should be left where it belongs.

    RomancingTheFashionista Cover Final 72lg

    You can pick up ROMANCING

    at

    AMAZON

    or here at

    SAMHAIN

    Tell me where would you go or what would you do if you could turn back time? 

    Thanks so much!

    All the best,

    KMJ

  • book launch,  Books,  Bounce,  Bounce Back

    Bounce Is Back plus a Giveaway!!! #BounceBack

    So the big day has finally arrived…

    BOUNCE IS BACK!!!  Well, sort of.  It’s release day for my long anticipated (at least in my mind) sequal to BOUNCE, entitled BOUNCE BACK. Once again we’re in scandalous fictional town of Edgewater, New York with Sabrina Jacobs and the oh-so desperate housewives that make sure there is never a dull moment.

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    Because sometimes more than love is on the line…

    Book 2 in the Loving On The Edge Series 

    All Sabrina Jacobs wants to do is focus on building her new life, and that starts with rebuilding her marriage. Her husband has moved back into their home and thankfully, exclusively into her bed, she’s making a name for herself with her home based finance business and she’s even starting to master the suburban mommy mafia game. Too bad she didn’t factor in being assigned as co-chair in charge of the annual Cougar and Cubs gala with her town nemesis. As busy as Sabrina is, she definitely doesn’t have time to deal with the likes of one Cassandra Stanton.

    Currently a Cougar in waiting, Cassandra Stanton is well on track to being Edgewater town royalty, that is, if she can keep it together and pull off the fundraiser of the year. Too bad she’s saddled with co-chairing the event with the chronically clueless Sabrina Jacobs. Not to mention the fact that her husband, Richard, has chosen now to have his most inconvenient, can’t keep it in his pants, mid-life crisis. Cassandra just doesn’t have the time to deal with coddling him and pulling off the party of the year. But maybe the town’s new contractor can give her the tools she needs to work out all her problems and rebuild her life, only this time on her terms.

    Can these two unlikely allies come together for a cause and give the Cougars of Edgewater a night they won’t soon forget, all the while gaining control of the chaos their own lives have become? 

     

    You can pick up BOUNCE BACK here on Amazon: http://amzn.to/1RtRers

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    All the best,

    KMJ

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    Bounce is Back! #BounceBack

    So here it is… after way too long a time away I’m super excited to let you all know that I’ve gone back to my fictional town of Edgewater, N.Y. and stepped back into the world of Sabrina and Sean Jacobs to see what’s all to do in their lives. And let me tell you there is plenty!

    The sequel to my Award Winning novel BOUNCE is finally here! Well, almost… BOUNCE BACK will be available on 4/4, but it’s up for pre-order now at the low introductory price of 2.99.

    So snap it up now and tell a please tell a friend.

    Bounce Back

    Because sometimes more than love is on the line…

    Book 2 in the Loving On The Edge Series

     

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    All Sabrina Jacobs wants to do is focus on building her new life, and that starts with rebuilding her marriage. Her husband has moved back into their home and thankfully, exclusively into her bed, she’s making a name for herself with her home based finance business and she’s even starting to master the suburban mommy mafia game. Too bad she didn’t factor in being assigned as co-chair in charge of the annual Cougar and Cubs gala with her town nemesis. As busy as Sabrina is, she definitely doesn’t have time to deal with the likes of one Cassandra Stanton.

    Currently a Cougar in waiting, Cassandra Stanton is well on track to being Edgewater town royalty, that is, if she can keep it together and pull off the fundraiser of the year. Too bad she’s saddled with co-chairing the event with the chronically clueless Sabrina Jacobs. Not to mention the fact that her husband, Richard, has chosen now to have his most inconvenient, can’t keep it in his pants, mid-life crisis. Cassandra just doesn’t have the time to deal with coddling him and pulling off the party of the year. But maybe the town’s new contractor can give her the tools she needs to work out all her problems and rebuild her life, only this time on her terms.

    Can these two unlikely allies come together for a cause and give the Cougars of Edgewater a night they won’t soon forget, all the while gaining control of the chaos their own lives have become?

     

    Pre-order Bounce Back here:

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    Thanks so much!

    All the best,

    KMJ