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Marie Lavender – Interview – A Little Magick

An interview on When Angels Fly! 😉

Mary L. Schmidt aka S. Jackson's avatarWhen Angels Fly

A Little Magick - final cover

Please welcome Marie Lavender to my blog. Hello Marie, have a seat and we shall chat for a short while. 

Please introduce yourself to those reading this blog post.

Hello! Nice to visit your blog, Mary! I am an author of twenty-four books in various genres. I’m from a small town in the Midwest. I am a thirty-something woman and I hope to marry my fiancĂ© sometime this year. I love shopping, reading and writing!

Has writing always been part of your life and when did you “know” that it was time to start writing your first book? 

Yes, I’ve been writing fiction in some capacity since I was nine years old. I think I always knew I wanted to be an author.

In college, I had two stories published in a university anthology. By 2010, I started the indie publishing journey, and in 2011, I submitted my first historical


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February Romance/Erotica Author Interview Answer #12 “Among friends, family and the online writers community, who supports you the most when you’re writing?”

Jasveena R Prabhagaran's avatarInternational Book Promotion

Romance/Erotica Author Interview
Romance/Erotica Author Interview

Hello everyone! It’s time
to reveal the answers for all 12 questions answered by 12 author participants in
the February Group Author Interview, in the 12 genres, 12 authors, 12 months
and 12 questions series
! The support from Romance/Erotica authors was
amazing as we have 12 authors participating in this group author interview.

If you are an author and
would like to participate in our upcoming interviews, check out this link, sign up and get your fans to ask
their questions to the participating authors! The goal of this author interview
is to increase the engagement between readers and authors, and to expose
authors to new group of readers.

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So, the 12th question is “Among friends, family and the online writers community, who supports you


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February Romance/Erotica Author Interview Answer #11 “Name one character you like the most from your books”

Who is my current favorite character? 😉

Jasveena R Prabhagaran's avatarInternational Book Promotion

Romance/Erotica Author Interview
Romance/Erotica Author Interview

Hello everyone! It’s time
to reveal the answers for all 12 questions answered by 12 author participants in
the February Group Author Interview, in the 12 genres, 12 authors, 12 months
and 12 questions series
! The support from Romance/Erotica authors was
amazing as we have 12 authors participating in this group author interview.

If you are an author and
would like to participate in our upcoming interviews, check out this link, sign up and get your fans to ask
their questions to the participating authors! The goal of this author interview
is to increase the engagement between readers and authors, and to expose
authors to new group of readers.

For more news, book
promotion tips and offers, sign
up for our newsletter
to have the updates delivered
right to your inbox.

So, the 11th question is “ Name one character you like the most from your books


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12 answers from authors on their origin stories!

February Romance/Erotica Author Interview Answer #3 “When did you start writing?”

February Romance/Erotica Author Interview Answer #2 “ What is your choice: traditional publishing or self-publishing?”

Jasveena R Prabhagaran's avatarInternational Book Promotion

Romance/Erotica Author Interview
Romance/Erotica Author Interview

Hello everyone! It’s time
to reveal the answers for all 12 questions answered by 12 author participants in
the February Group Author Interview, in the 12 genres, 12 authors, 12 months
and 12 questions series
! The support from Romance/Erotica authors was
amazing as we have 12 authors participating in this group author interview.

If you are an author and
would like to participate in our upcoming interviews, check out this link, sign up and get your fans to ask
their questions to the participating authors! The goal of this author interview
is to increase the engagement between readers and authors, and to expose
authors to new group of readers.

For more news, book
promotion tips and offers, sign
up for our newsletter
to have the updates delivered
right to your inbox.

So, the 2nd question is “What is your choice: traditional publishing or self-publishing?”

1) Author #1


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Vote at the Critters Readers Poll!

Marie Lavender's avatarI Love Romance Blog

Hi, readers! Great news
Blood Instincts and the Heiresses in Love Trilogy were both nominated for the 21st Annual Preditors and Editors Critters’ Readers Poll!

So, help me out and cast your vote for each book


You’ll find Blood Instincts, book two of the Blood at First Sight Series, listed in the Romance Category on the site here.

http://books2read.com/u/bppKAk
http://critters.org/predpoll/novelr.shtml

And the Heiresses in Love Series boxed set is listed on the Anthologies page here.
http://books2read.com/u/3yZ8qv

http://critters.org/predpoll/antho.shtml

Reader votes wrap up on January 14th. There are SO many categories/genres in which you can cast your vote, including the Best EVER poll (of course I chose my favorite J.R. Ward novel)!

Happy voting, and wish me luck in the awards contest! 🙂

Happy New Year
and, of course, happy reading to all! ♄♄♄

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Conversations With Colleen: Meet Author, Marie Lavender

It’s Here!

Well, readers, I’ve been talking about this one for a while, and now it’s live! Blood Instincts, a futuristic paranormal romance/urban fantasy and book two of the Blood at First Sight Series, is available! Yay! Mega thanks to my publisher, Solstice Publishing, for making this happen so quickly!

Woo hoo! Book two is out! Let’s see what it’s all about! ♄

Blurb:

Enter the Other World at your own risk


What if you found out that you weren’t exactly
human?

Myah Sullivan is suddenly living that nightmare. There are Others in the world, dangerous, supernatural creatures that make her mind spin and cause her to question the reality she’s always known.

Oliver King is her savior, a vampire who tries to show her the way. Through her journey she learns far more than she ever thought she would about herself, and about the past. Soon, she discovers that there is so much more to meeting Oliver than mere happenstance.

Can Myah accept her new reality, or will she retreat into that normal, safe world she once thought was her own?

 

Purchase Links:

Amazon Universal ebook link: https://bookgoodies.com/a/B07DFL8DRR

mybook.to/BI

Amazon Universal print link: mybook.to/BloodInstpaperback

Universal reader link: http://books2read.com/u/bppKAk

Publisher:  http://solsticepublishing.com/blood-instincts/

 

Here are some sizzling teasers!

Add it to your Goodreads bookshelf! ♄♄♄

I hope you get a chance to check out this sequel to Second Nature! 😀

As always, happy reading, everyone! And have a wonderful weekend!

New Release!!

Well, readers…it’s official! Now that the Heiresses in Love Series is complete, there is one more thing to look forward to. That’s right. The boxed set of the entire trilogy just released this week! Exciting, right? 😉

Let’s see what it’s all about!

Blurb:

An unforgettable, sweeping saga of romance, passion and history rooted in tales of maritime suspense


Three heiresses
three novels like no other.

UPON YOUR RETURN

Fara risks her heart every time she’s with him, but she cannot deny him.

UPON YOUR HONOR

Chloe never imagined that the man she deceived would be the one man she can’t stop loving.

UPON YOUR LOVE

Adrienne must decide whether to succumb to desire or fight for love.


Will these remarkable women at last find what they’ve always wanted, or lose more than they can bear?

 

 

Purchase Links:

Amazon Universal link:  https://bookgoodies.com/a/B079N7NKQK

myBook.to/HeiressesTrilogy

 

Publisher:  http://solsticepublishing.com/heiresses-in-love-trilogy/

Add it to your Goodreads bookshelf! ♄♄♄

I hope you get a chance to check it out! 😀 Oh, and if you’ve read all three books in the series already, feel free to stop by and leave a review.

As always, happy reading, everyone! And have a wonderful weekend!

Vote For A Romance Cover!

Vote for UYL and DoH here!

Marie Lavender's avatarI Love Romance Blog

Hi, readers! I just wanted to stop in and announce that two of my books were entered in the big cover contest on Authors Database. Yay! When you get a chance, you can check it out and vote for the one you like.

Upon Your Love, book three of the Heiresses in Love Series, which is also a historical romance/family saga novel, is in there. As you can tell, Adrienne’s eyes were fixed recently, to honor their unique violet hue.

This is the voting page for UYL:

https://authorsdb.com/2018-cover-contest-results/25047-cover-contest-2018-upon-your-love

Additionally, the cover for Directions of the Heart, a modern romantic drama collection, was nominated for the contest. Woo hoo! 🙂 Many thanks to Sherry Soule at SwoonWorthy Book Covers for her awesome work on the romance cover! ♄ 

Here’s the voting page for that book:

https://authorsdb.com/2018-cover-contest-results/25046-cover-contest-2018-directions-of-the-heart

Also, check out my author page over at AuthorsDB here.

This


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