Showing posts with label debut. Show all posts
Showing posts with label debut. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

CELEBRATE A SUCCESS STORY & a giveaway!


I will give away a gift certificate for one copy of Forbidden Magic to one lucky commenter!

Today I invite you to join all of us here at Romancing the Genres in celebrating the first of our not-yet-published bloggers to become a published author: Robin Weaver, who writes as GENIA AVERS. Her Debut novel is a Paranormal Romance/Adventure from MuseItUp Publishing, FORBIDDEN MAGIC

 Robin/Genia was a Golden Heart Finalist in 2010 with this book. She’s worked long and hard to perfect her craft and to craft a perfectly captivating story of heroism, sacrifice, magic and romance. 
GENIA AVERS

Several of our Genre-istas (including me) are working toward publication in novel-length fiction. Robin/Genia’s success is an inspiration and an affirmation that hard work and perseverance pay off. 

Celebrating FORBIDDEN MAGIC’s release is the icing on the cake of our Blog-o-versary Month!

My question for you is, Do you believe in magic?

FORBIDDEN MAGIC blurb
 
To save her world, she offers her life, but fate demands more. She must sleep with the enemy.

Subena has a choice: Marry a man she despises, or let everyone in Mydrias die. To gain access to the crystals crucial to the survival of her kind, she devises a treaty with the hated Gatslians—dark elves who practice forbidden magic and are believed responsible for the elfin banishment from Earth. The Gatsle king agrees to provide the light-reflecting substance, but adds an appalling condition. Subena must marry his son, Prince Kamber.

Her vow to remain aloof wavers as murder attempts, renegade troops, and a traitor who wants to destroy both Gatsle and Mydrias force Subena to work closely with her new spouse. Too closely. The forbidden magic she possesses might shield her body, but she possesses no power to protect her heart. Especially when Kamber’s former paramour resurfaces, laying claim to the man who’s made his imprint on Subena’s soul.


FORBIDDEN MAGIC is the first in a series of romantic adventures chronicling the intercultural challenges as Mydrias and Gastle attempt to resolve their differences and return to Earth.

“It’s loaded with passion leavened by a touch of snark—a fun read.” Linda Lovely, author of Dear Killer and No Wake Zone

I can’t wait to read this myself!  I bought FORBIDDEN MAGIC for my Kindle today.
~Sarah Raplee

Saturday, June 4, 2011

Interview:6x Golden Heart YA Finalist Shelley Coriell

Shelley Coriell
Entry Title, category, year:
6x GH Finalist

Twilight’s Children, Romantic Suspense, 2007
The Lost, Contemporary Single Title, 2008
The Broken, Romantic Suspense, 2009
bloom, Young Adult, 2010
Welcome Caller, This Is Chloe, Young Adult, 2010
The Lies that Bind, Young Adult, 2011

Were you the overall Winner that year? Call me the Susan Lucci of the RWA Golden Heart. Six back-to-back finals but never a win.

However, all ended happily ever after in my GH drama as this year
I accepted a shiny offer for one of my 2010 Golden Heart YA manuscripts from a major New York publisher.

Website and/or Blog Links:  www.shelleycoriell.com

Why did you decide to enter your manuscript in the GH Contest?
Putting on my pantyhose here: In terms of ROI (Return on Investment), the Golden Heart can’t be beat. For fifty bucks and a finalling entry, you get months of national exposure, unprecedented access to acquiring editors and agents (they seek you out at Nationals and on-line!), and a network of like-minded, caring, amazing writer buds.

Interview: 2010 Golden Heart YA Finalist Erica O'Rourke


Erica O'Rourke
Entry Title, category, year:    Unchosen, Young Adult, 2010
Were you the overall Winner that year?   Yes
Website and/or Blog Links:     www.ericaorourke.com
Why did you decide to enter your manuscript in the GH Contest? 
Friends suggested it would be a good way to make myself stop revising (I will revise endlessly, given the chance) and start submitting.
Where were you and what were you doing when you got the GH call? We were on a flight from Chicago to San Diego. I knew it was “Call Day”, but after we landed, I checked my phone, and there were no messages. I assumed I had not finaled, put on a stiff upper lip, and got in the rental car. Halfway to the hotel, my phone started buzzing that I had emails. Lots and lots of congratulatory emails.
 “We were wrong,” I said to my husband.
 “We missed our turn?”
“No. We were wrong about the Golden Heart. I’m a finalist!”
“That’s great! I still need to know where our turn is.”
(We missed it. Twice. Hard to hear the GPS lady over shrieks of glee.)