Today’s Bad Moon Rising offering features author Meaghan Curley, and is one of the funniest interviews I’ve ever read. Do yourself a huge favor and check it out. I think you’ll laugh as much as I did!
Check out Meaghan Curley’s post HERE
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Miscellaneous News
#ReblogAlert – Sally Cronin’s Smorgasbord Weekly RoundUp Post
She’s done it again, folks! Sally and all her fabulous guests have produced another banner week. Be sure to check it out in case you’ve missed anything. (Loving animals the way I do, I have to add that the animal videos & memes at the end are some of the best EVER!)
Check out Sally’s Weekly RoundUp post HERE
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Don’t Forget: $.99 Sale on All #Riverbend Books – Last Six Days!
… to download your copies today! All three Riverbend books are still on sale for the ridiculously low price of $.99, so don’t miss out!
“Swamp Ghosts is an intriguing mystery filled with monsters, both on two legs, and four–or none at all.” – 5 Star Review
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“Gut-Wrenching, Heartbreaking, and Soul-Warming!” – 5 Star Review
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“Marcia Meara keeps the twists coming in this book! You think you have the story line figured out and BAM!!! A wonderful read!!!!!” – 5 Star Review
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So there you have it, folks! Hope you’ll take advantage of this sale today, before they’re all gone. Oh, wait. That’s right. These are eBooks. They’ll be around a long, long time–but NOT at this price! 😁 So run, don’t walk, right on over to Amazon and download your copies today!
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#BadMoonRising – Post 9 Featuring Cheryl A. Hunt
A really fun post today on Bad Moon Rising, featuring author Cheryl A. Hunt with some interesting interview questions and an intriguing vampire novel I plan to check out shortly. Hope you’ll stop by and see for yourself. I especially love her comments on pumpkins!
You can check out Cheryl’s post HERE!
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#BadMoonRising – Post 8 Featuring Joan Hall
Today’s featured Bad Moon Rising guest is Joan Hall, and her post is a super one. (Wait until you read her answer about legends that scare her. It sure creeped me out!) Hope you’ll stop by to see for yourself!
You can check out Joan’s post HERE.
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#BadMoonRising – Post 7 Featuring Joseph Lewis
Running behind today, folks, but definitely wanted to be sure you don’t miss this one. Today’s Bad Moon Rising post features Joseph Lewis, and it’s really entertaining and interesting. Be sure you check it out! You’ll be glad you did.
Check out Joseph Lewis’s post HERE
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#BadMoonRising – Post 6 Featuring Armand Rosamilia
Trust me, folks. You do not want to miss today’s Bad Moon Rising post featuring Armand Rosamilia! Funny? Yes. Shivery? Yes! You really should head right on over so you can see for yourself. Really. I mean it. Go NOW. (You’ll be glad you did!)
Check out Armand Rosamilia’s post HERE
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#BadMoonRising – Post 5 Featuring C. S. Boyack
Today, Bad Moon Rising features C. S. Boyack, one of the most creative writers I’ve ever read, as the special guest. If you haven’t checked out his books, after you read his post today, I have a feeling you soon will. (And he has a FREE offer, too, so don’t miss this one!)
Check out Craig Boyack’s post HERE
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#Sale – #TenDaysOnly – #Riverbend eBooks 1, 2, and 3 – $.99
Still celebrating my escape from the world of Breakthrough COVID. Thought I’d offer another sale for you guys, only this one is going to last through 10/15, or ten days. So, if you’ve been curious about life in this little Florida town, replete with all the weird folks who live there, now’s your chance to download these books for $.99 each, or under $3.00 for all three!
Swamp Ghosts – Riverbend Book 1
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Wildlife photographer Gunnar Wolfe looked like the kind of guy every man wanted to be and every woman just plain wanted, and the St. Johns River of central Florida drew him like a magnet. EcoTour boat owner Maggie Devlin knew all the river’s secrets, including the deadliest ones found in the swamps. But neither Maggie nor Gunn was prepared for the danger that would come after them on two legs.
On a quest to make history photographing the rarest birds of them all, Gunnar hires the fiery, no-nonsense Maggie to canoe him into the most remote wetland areas in the state. He was unprepared for how much he would enjoy both the trips and Maggie’s company. He soon realizes he wants more than she’s able to give, but before he can win her over, they make a grisly discovery that changes everything, and turns the quiet little town of Riverbend upside down. A serial killer is on the prowl among them.
RECENT REVIEW
Strange people make wonderful stories.
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I don’t actually read romances, but was drawn to this one. The author is a nature lover, much like myself, and knowing she was placing this tale in what amounts to her back yard appealed to me. The swamps of Florida are foreign to a westerner like myself. The depictions and descriptions are wonderful.
What I found was a wonderful murder mystery that lands squarely in these same swamps. It’s intense, thrilling, and scary. I pegged the killer early on, but that didn’t detract from the story. He’s so wonderfully creepy, Meara gets this across like she lived some of it.
I walked in knowing it was a romance, and that part was well done. I admit it was the nature tours, and the murder mystery that called to me. I’m giving it five stars, because it was that wonderful.
Download Swamp Ghosts HERE
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Finding Hunter – Riverbend Book 2
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Before, I never thought about taking a life. Not once.
Now, the thought fills my mind day and night, and
I wonder how I’ll hide that terrible need,
As an old car swings to the shoulder,
And stops.
~ Traveling Man ~
Hunter Painter’s darkest fears have shaped his offbeat personality since he was a child, crippling him in ways invisible to those unable to see past his quiet exterior. In a sleepy Florida town known for its eccentric inhabitants, he’s always been a mystery to most.
Only one person sees beyond Hunter’s quirky facade. Willow Greene, the new age herbalist who owns the local candle and potpourri shop, has secretly loved him since they were in high school. When, sixteen years later, she discovers Hunter has loved her just as long, Willow hopes her dreams are finally coming true.
Willow soon learns that Hunter fears happiness at her side isn’t in the cards for him. With her natural optimism and courage, she almost convinces him he’s wrong—that they can really have that life together they both long for—but even Willow can’t stop what Hunter knows is coming.
One by one, his worst nightmares become reality, culminating in an unthinkable tragedy, which devastates everyone it touches. Willow’s battle begins in earnest as Hunter is plunged into a bleak, guilt-ridden despair, threatening to destroy not only their love, but Hunter, himself.
Finding Hunter is the story of a lost man’s desperate struggle to make his way home again, and one woman’s unshakeable faith in him and the power of their love.
RECENT REVIEW
A Truly Inspirational Story
The characters who populate the small town of River Bend come to life in this story about the power of love, from the inspired imagination of talented author, Marcia Meara. A truly wonderful novel, this story features two minor characters from Ms. Meara’s previous novel, Swamp Ghosts. Hunter, an introverted, hapless, but troubled writer who carries a load of family problems on his shoulders, and has no idea of the talent he possesses. And Willow, the selfless, caring extrovert, who adores him and tries her best to point out how valuable his life is.
This story is rather unusual as it’s the reverse of the standard romance novel. It begins with the romance, expertly written by the way, and works up to the events that threaten to end it forever.
The short poems at the beginning of each chapter add a bit of suspense to the story as you can’t help but wonder who’s thoughts they are. But eventually everything is revealed. The story pulled me in from the very first page, and kept me reading well into the night. I highly recommend this novel.
Download Finding Hunter HERE
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That Darkest Place – Riverbend Book 3
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“There are dark places in every heart, in every head. Some you turn away from. Some you light a candle within. But there is one place so black, it consumes all light. It will pull you in and swallow you whole. You don’t leave your brother stranded in that darkest place.”
~Hunter Painter~
The new year is a chance for new beginnings—usually hopeful, positive ones. But when Jackson Painter plows his car into a tree shortly after midnight on January 1, his new beginnings are tragic. His brothers, Forrest and Hunter, take up a grim bedside vigil at the hospital, waiting for Jackson to regain consciousness and anxious over how he’ll take the news that he’s lost a leg and his fiancée is dead. After all, the accident was all his fault.
As the shocking truth emerges, one thing becomes obvious—Jackson will need unconditional love and support from both of his brothers if he is to survive.
Just as he begins the long road to recovery, danger, in the form of a sinister, unsigned note, plunges him back into bleak despair. Scrawled in blood red letters, the accusation—and the threat—is clear. “MURDERER!”
Will the long, harrowing ordeal that lies ahead draw the Painter brothers closer together, or drive them apart forever?
Suspenseful and often heartbreaking, this small-town tale is a testimonial to the redemptive power of love and paints a story filled with humor, romance, and fierce family loyalty.
RECENT REVIEW
This book has it all – Suspense, Romance, Tragedy and Humour
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Download That Darkest Place HERE
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Hope some of you will decide to take advantage of this ten-day only sale, and if you do, will let me know your thoughts on the good (and not-so-good) folks of Riverbend, Florida. I also hope you’ll consider sharing the news of this sale with all your online friends, far and wide. It would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks for stopping by today, and here’s to a great rest of the week!
Happy Reading!
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#I’m BACK! #Update #BlogFeatures
Okay, okay. I know I look NOTHING like Gene Wilder, but he’s a personal favorite of mine and I couldn’t resist his saucy expression! 😀 Besides, the message works! I am officially back from my adventure in the Land of Breakthrough COVID. (Not an adventure I’d wish on anybody else, and boy am I grateful every day that we’d gotten both of our shots before this hit us.) I’m also grateful to have come through it all not too much the worse for wear. Still low energy, so I try not to push too hard, but mostly all symptoms are gone, even those dreadful narcoleptic-like fatigue episodes.
The important thing is, I survived, and I feel well enough to tackle getting most of my regular blog features back up and running once more, though it’s possible, I may need to step back now and then if I find I’m getting overwhelmed. Hopefully that won’t happen, or at least, not often. With that in mind, here’s what you can look for coming up on The Write Stuff, usually on a bi-weekly basis:
- Every other Monday: #MondayMeme (usually writing related)
- Every other Tuesday: #GuestDayTuesday (I’m ready to start scheduling )
- Every other Wednesday: #TenThingsYouMayNotKnowAboutMe guests
- Every other Thursday: #ThorsDaySmiles
- Every other Friday: #Granny Says
I have the weeks set up so that Monday, Wednesday, & Friday posts run one week, and Tuesday and Thursday posts, the next week. That gives me a couple of empty days each week for miscellaneous posts that I want to share and some extra guest posts now and then. Weekends are also open for whatever comes along, and a couple of times a year, I’m planning to run #ExcerptWeek, wherein you’ll be invited to share an excerpt from one of your books as one more way to promote them.
I have the #TenThings Wednesday spots filled every other week up to December, but if you’d like to be scheduled after Wed, Nov 24, just email me, and I’ll get you set up.
#GuestDayTuesday, where you can post anything you want about your books and writing (from promos to new releases to cover reveals, and more), is wide open, starting now. Tuesday, Oct 12 is the only Tuesday I have already scheduled at this point, so feel free to contact me if you’d like to take part. (Otherwise, you might be seeing a lot of ME as my own guest. 😁 )
And I think that pretty much covers what’s coming up, but if you have any questions, all of the instructions and lists of what I’d need for you to send me are listed above (right beneath the blog header) under “General Blog Rules and Various Feature Instructions.” If you can’t find the information you’re looking for there, feel free to email me, and I’ll help as best I can.
Thanks so much to each of you for your support, healing wishes and prayers, and patience as I dealt with this situation. I am truly looking forward to catching up with all of my favorite blogs once again. And I can’t begin to tell you how much our writing and blogging community has meant to me during the eight-plus weeks I was quarantined! Probably would have lost my mind without the online friendships I’ve made.
All that being said,
IT’S GREAT TO BE BACK!
The Write Stuff 