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Year: 2011
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I have teamed up with the Women’s Lit Cafe Gratitude Blog Hop Authors Give Back!! And today, my guest is author Amy Manemann!!!
The WoMen’s Literary Cafe is very thankful for all of the support from bloggers, reviewers, and readers during the Come Back To Me book launch and 99 cent event. As a thank you, we are giving away “Deadly Reunion (The Taci Andrews Deadly series)” for free today only. Enter TODAY to win your copy!
So please help me give her a very warm welcome as only you can do as she is generously offering to give away three (3) EBook EDITIONS of the Deadly Reunion (The Taci Andrews Deadly Series). So without further ado, Ms. Amy Manemann!!!!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Amy Manemann grew up in the rural community of Clinton, Iowa where she still resides with her husband and their two children. An active participant at her church Amy enjoys spending time with her children, writing and getting engrossed in a good book. Deadly Reunion is the first of four books in her Deadly Series featuring Investigative Reporter Taci Andrews.
GUEST POST
Why do we give up on our dreams?
By:Amy Manemann
Believing in the magic of your dreams is a key step inturning them from fantasy into a reality. So why do we often times take a stepback and allow life’s little hiccups determine when we stop believing inourselves and let our dreams slip through the cracks?
I feel like I’ve been a writer my entire life though itwasn’t until this past year that I decided to take the proverbial leap of faithand join the publishing world by becoming an Indie Author. This wasn’t an easydecision for me, in fact I had many misconceived notions about the way you weresupposed to go about getting published and none of them included stepping outon my own. However, when I first delved into the mysteries of the publishingworld my newbie eyes received an awakening and I soon grew weary of theconstant battles I faced to just simply query a traditional publishing house oragent.
Was this what my life had become? To have spent hours uponhours pouring my heart and soul into a story only to be given a list of rulesto follow to send in a query letter was disconcerting, to say the least. It wasat this point I nearly gave up on my publishing dreams. And then my father’svoice, long since gone these past ten years, echoed a reminder in my ear: Neverstop believing in the magic of your dreams.
And as he was so many times in my youth I have to say yetagain, he was right. I was willing to let a brick wall put an end to my longhours of hard work simply because I thoughtthis was the only avenue to go about publishing. And then I met a fantasticgroup of Indie Authors who opened my mind and changed the way I would foreverview traditional publishing.
I am happy to say I thoroughly enjoy being an Indie Author.It’s not the path I originally was set on, yet I feel as though this was the pathI was destined to take. And all thanks to a ghostly reminder of not giving upon the magic of my dreams.
So, dear reader, a question to you: What dreams have you letfade slowly away from your heart? It’s never too late to bring them back. Youjust have to believe.
To read more about Amy Manemann visit her website at www.amymanemann.webs.com
ABOUT THE BOOK
Smart mouthed Taci Andrews is an investigative reporter for the Riverdale Times with a lot on her plate. Between receiving a dreaded invitation to her fifteen year high school reunion, her best friend’s divorce drama and her own solitary dating status her fun meter is pretty much pegged.
When Taci’s partner goes missing while covering a missing child feature she is suddenly thrown into the story of her career, which oddly enough delves into a past she would rather forget. She soon finds herself squaring off against a malicious class Barbie Doll, the High School Quarterback and a steamy Fireman from her past whose deep blue eyes are still enough to curl her toes.
Concerned about the disappearance of his friend’s daughter, Firefighter Tony Parsons returns to his hometown of Riverdale to see what is being done with the case. Having a few connections with the police force he decides to pull in a few favors, running into former classmate Taci Andrews in the process. His last memory of Taci was back in high school when she’d given him a black eye for feeling up her shirt. He had to admit the grown up version of Taci was even better than the adolescent version and when he learns she’s covering the story for the Times he decides to tag along.
Despite babysitting three hyped up children, having a disastrous date night, receiving an ominous warning and nearly getting blown up, the sparks that quickly ignite between Tony and Taci are hard to ignore, despite their best efforts. As they delve deeper to uncover the deadly truths surrounding the sleepy town of Riverdale, the old feud that rested between them for ages begins to give way to an unexpected passion.
But new feelings for one another or not they both have a job to do and a missing child to find. Can they put their feelings aside to solve the case or will they be next on the missing person’s list?
THANKS TO AUTHOR, AMY MANEMANN,
I HAVE 3 EBOOK EDITIONS TO GIVE AWAY.
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NOVEMBER 16th to NOVEMBER 16th(midnight), 2011
DEADLY REUNION
by AMY MANEMANN
SYNOPSIS:
Smart mouthed Taci Andrews is an investigative reporter for the Riverdale Times with a lot on her plate. Between receiving a dreaded invitation to her fifteen year high school reunion, her best friend’s divorce drama and her own solitary dating status her fun meter is pretty much pegged.
When Taci’s partner goes missing while covering a missing child feature she is suddenly thrown into the story of her career, which oddly enough delves into a past she would rather forget. She soon finds herself squaring off against a malicious class Barbie Doll, the High School Quarterback and a steamy Fireman from her past whose deep blue eyes are still enough to curl her toes.
Concerned about the disappearance of his friend’s daughter, Firefighter Tony Parsons returns to his hometown of Riverdale to see what is being done with the case. Having a few connections with the police force he decides to pull in a few favors, running into former classmate Taci Andrews in the process. His last memory of Taci was back in high school when she’d given him a black eye for feeling up her shirt. He had to admit the grown up version of Taci was even better than the adolescent version and when he learns she’s covering the story for the Times he decides to tag along.
Despite babysitting three hyped up children, having a disastrous date night, receiving an ominous warning and nearly getting blown up, the sparks that quickly ignite between Tony and Taci are hard to ignore, despite their best efforts. As they delve deeper to uncover the deadly truths surrounding the sleepy town of Riverdale, the old feud that rested between them for ages begins to give way to an unexpected passion.
But new feelings for one another or not they both have a job to do and a missing child to find. Can they put their feelings aside to solve the case or will they be next on the missing person’s list?
THANKS TO THE KINDNESS OF AUTHOR, AMY MANEMANN
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Timestamp: 2011-11-15 23:05:46 UTC
mom2girls said…Wow, would not want to find out what happend to her – all those years ago – that would make her willing to leave her family to heal! I would love to read this to find out 🙂
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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
*Grab your current read
*Open to a random page
*Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
*BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
*Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
At the end of the day, many of the steps forward you take, you take by yourself. Sometimes you get a little help along the way. That’s why God invented your mother, sisters, daughters and girlfriends. (Sometimes I think God should have quit while he was ahead).
page 195
Hosted by Miz B at Should Be Reading
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
*Grab your current read
*Open to a random page
*Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
*BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
*Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
At the end of the day, many of the steps forward you take, you take by yourself. Sometimes you get a little help along the way. That’s why God invented your mother, sisters, daughters and girlfriends. (Sometimes I think God should have quit while he was ahead).
page 195
