Burning Love on Sale by Jana Richards
Looking for a quick fun read? Fellow Wild Rose Press author Jana Richards’ Burning Love is on sale for 99 cents. Burning Love a sweet novella between Iris Jensen who set her kitchen on fire not once but three times and firefighter Riley Benson.
A little about Burning Love:
After causing three cooking fires in her apartment, Iris Jensen finds herself evicted and homeless. She lands on Riley Benson’s doorstep, looking to rent a room in the beautiful old home he’s restoring. It’s only for six weeks until Iris leaves Portland, Oregon for her new job on a cruise ship. Firefighter Riley knows firsthand what a bad tenant she can be. But he needs money to finish the work on the house he loves. And something about Iris pulls at his heart…
Meanwhile, in Heaven, two angels watch over the young lovers. Angelica and Hildegard work in Heaven’s Relationship Division, where angels match mortals with their soul mates. The angels believe so strongly in Iris and Riley’s love that they break Heaven’s rules to help them. Can the angels convince them their love will last a lifetime?
A sneak peek between the pages of Burning Love:
“Renting the room to you is starting to look like one of the smartest things I’ve done lately,” he said with a smile.
Without thinking she set the boxes on the fridge and took his hand. “I’m serious, Riley. I don’t mind telling you how scared I was. Whiskers and I came very close to sleeping on a bench in the park with the other vagrants. So, thank you.”
Riley gently brushed his fingers across her cheek, sending a rush of desire coursing through her body. “You’re welcome. But I know you would have been okay, even if I hadn’t rented you the room. You’re a strong girl.”
Iris didn’t feel very strong at the moment. In fact, she felt as weak as a kitten, and just as vulnerable. She let go of Riley’s hand and gave a shaky laugh.
“Yeah, that’s me. Strong as a marshmallow.” She picked up the boxes of food and turned away, afraid to look him in the eye and make a fool of herself.
“Hey, what’s this?” Riley asked. Iris turned to see him staring at her calendar.
“That’s just a little visual reminder for me. Only five more weeks until I hit the sunshine and you get rid of me.”
Instead of laughing the way she thought he would, Riley continued to stare at the calendar.
“Right,” he said. “Only five more weeks.”
She wanted to ask him if he was okay, but something in his voice stopped her. Surely, he wouldn’t miss her?
About the author:
When Jana Richards read her first romance novel, she immediately knew two things: she had to commit the stories running through her head to paper, and they had to end with a happily ever after. She also knew she’d found what she was meant to do. Since then she’s never met a romance genre she didn’t like. She writes contemporary romance, romantic suspense, and historical romance set in World War Two, in lengths ranging from short story to full length novel. Just for fun, she throws in generous helpings of humor, and the occasional dash of the paranormal. Her paranormal romantic suspense “Seeing Things” was a 2008 EPPIE finalist.
In her life away from writing, Jana is an accountant/admin assistant, a mother to two grown daughters, and a wife to her husband Warren. She enjoys golf, yoga, movies, concerts, travel and reading, not necessarily in that order. She and her husband live in Winnipeg, Canada with an elderly Pug/Terrier named cross Lou. She loves to hear from readers and can be reached through her social media links below:
Social Media Links:
Website: http://www.janarichards.com
Blog: http://janarichards.blogspot.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/JanaRichardsAuthor
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/JanaRichards_
Amazon Author Page: http://www.amazon.com/author/janarichards
Amazon UK Author Page: http://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B002DEVWWG
Newsletter Signup: http://janarichards.com/contact.html#newsletter
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2892274Jana_Richards
Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/jana-richards
Thanks Jan for letting us know about your sale on Burning Love. Wishing you lots of sales!
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Interview Ann Crawford Author of Fresh Off The Starship
Give a warm welcome to Ann Crawford, author of Fresh off The Starship!
Pull up a chair, grab a drink of your choice from the cooler, a Chocolate Chip or Peanut Butter cookie from the plate, and let’s find out a little about Ann and Fresh Off The Starship. Pssst… Don’t forget to enter the Rafflecopter giveaway below! Ann Crawford will be awarding a $25 Amazon or Barnes and Noble GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.
What defines you as an author? As a person? Are they one in the same?
What a great series of questions! My books are deep, high, and all points in between—plus very rich. They’re usually very funny, uplifting, and thought-provoking. I like to say that I’m a high-flying, deep-diving, world-traveling author…I can fly a plane(high) and go scuba diving (deep), and I’ve been to 70 countries (very enriching experiences). I also do improv, which means I’m good with taking risks and putting myself out there. So what defines me as a person and as an author are pretty much one in the same.
What makes you laugh out loud?
My husband. Every. Single. Day. He would’ve been George Harrison, the quiet Beatle. But he has an amazingly playful, offbeat sense of humor. His first wife didn’t get his jokes at all, just like my first husband didn’t really appreciate me in some ways, either—especially my laughing, which I do a lot and which my current husband adores. Well, we all can use a warm-up marriage…so when the really right one comes along, we can appreciate it even more.
Just FYI and a fun fact about us, we met through eHarmony and were engaged 2 days after we met. It was really love at first sight. That was 13 years ago and it’s only gotten better, deeper, higher, richer (there’s a theme here).
Did you tell friends and family that you were writing a book? Or did it take a while to come out and tell friends and family you were a writer?
When I first started writing a book, I practically shouted it from the rooftops. I’d wanted to be an author since I was a toddler and my mom read to me. She wanted to be a writer herself, but was very sick for years and died when I was a senior in college. I started out college as an English major, but then tried turning off that whole part of me. A few years after graduating with a degree in business (whaaaaaat?) I took a grief workshop. Through that amazing process, the block to being a writer was lifted, gone, vamoose. So when that desire came back and the first idea came flooding in, I was elated.
Do you see yourself in your characters?
Oh, yes. Every heroine has a LOT of me in her. And I have a lot of different kinds of heroines, to outright strong and powerful to loopy to droopy…so they show all sides!
What do you want your readers to take away from your books?
I love how books open new worlds and new ideas. I’d love readers to put my books down feeling happier from all that laughing, more in love with life, lifted up, romanced and in love, more powerful, and wiser.
SPEED ROUND FOR A LITTLE ADDED FUN:
Speed Round (one word only answer): Yep, I know torture for a writer!<evil laugh>
Favorite movie: Casablanca
Favorite book: The DaVinci Code
Last book read: The Awakening—Fate in Motion, by Suzanne Boisvert
Favorite color: watermelon pink
Stilettos or flipflops: flipflops
Coffee or tea: coffee
Ebook or audiobook or paperback: ebook
Pencil or pen: pen
Favorite song: “You’re the Best Thing that Ever Happened to Me”
Streak or not: streak
Favorite dessert: gooey chocolate cake with lots of vanilla buttercream icing and roses on top
Favorite junk food: those big, fat chocolate chip cookies you get at truck stops on road trips
Favorite thing to do to relax: sit on the balcony overlooking the ocean (on vacay)
Champagne or gin: champagne
Paranormal or Historical: either
Wonder Woman or Top Model: Wonder Woman
Favorite TV show: Grey’s Anatomy. Outlander if cable is allowed.
Hot or cold: hot
POV: any which way
I’d die if I don’t have: love
Review or Not: review
Tell us a little about Fresh Off The Starship!
Love to laugh? You’ll enjoy this feel-good tale.
A starbeing skyrockets to Earth from the other side of forever with a specific assignment: to help steer humanity away from the collision course it’s on. But we all know how travel can get drastically diverted–instead of landing in Washington, D.C., where she could assist on a grand geopolitical scale, she ends up in…Kansas!
Wrong place, right time? Join our shero on this whimsical journey as she pursues her purpose as well as discovers the beauty of life and love on Earth.
Buy link; Amazon
A peek between the pages of Fresh Off The Starship!
Ohhhhhhhh—what a strange place this is! Loud noises, awful smells, strange beings looking at me.
The woman struggles to lift her hand just a few inches off the bed, clearly shocked to see it. Oh. Right. I’m one of those strange beings now.
She stares up at the group staring down at her.
This is odd. Do humans just stare at each other?
“Well, you’ve had a very, very long journey back here,” the doctor says.
You’re not kidding.
“We should give you some time,” the doctor continues.
When can I go back in the other direction?
“Don’t push her,” the doctor emphasizes to the other three humanoids. “Give her lots of time and space.”
Time and space. Oh, you have no idea.
“Where am I?”
The group, obviously ecstatic that she can talk but dismayed by her question, turns to the doctor.
“Missy, yer in a hospital room. You had a terrible accident a few months ago, and we thought we lost you at one point. But yer a tough survivor and fought yer way back here.”
That’s truer than you know.
“Perhaps we should just let her sleep some more,” the doctor tells them. “That’s when most of the body’s healing takes place.” She ushers them out of the room. “Amnesia can be a strange, strange thing,” the doctor starts to say. “The brain—” But she shuts the door and the voices are muffled.
Ohhhhhhh, I have a feeling I’m not in the Andromeda galaxy anymore.
About the author:
I’m a fun-loving, world-traveling, high-flying, deep-diving, and living-to-the-max author of eight books. When I’m not flying planes, scuba diving, climbing every mountain (on the back of my husband’s motorcycle) or riding the world’s fastest roller coasters, you can find me in my writing nest with a view of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains out the window. I’ve lived all over–from both oceans white with foam, to the prairie, and now to the mountain. Yes, a little backwards, but what the hey.
My bestselling and award-winning novels go as high and deep as I do—they’re profound yet funny; playful although poignant; heart-opening and heart-lifting; thought-provoking and inspiring; and edgy while universal. I’m also a screenwriter and award-winning filmmaker and humanitarian.
Social Media & Book Links
Website
https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00GMPORX8
https://www.facebook.com/anncrawfordauthorspeaker/
https://twitter.com/ann_crawford1
https://www.instagram.com/anncrawford509/
https://www.pinterest.com/anncrawfordauthor/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ann-crawford-546053a/
Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00GMPORX8
Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7847944.Ann_Crawford
The book will be on sale for only $0.99.
It was wonderful having you with us today. Please feel free to stop by anytime. Good Luck with Fresh Off The Starship! Join the tour at Goddessfishpromotions. The more you comment at each tour stop, the better your chances to win!
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