Thursday, March 31, 2016

Spotlight - Unusual Seductions Anthology

Join 6 authors as they take you on a trip through stories of the lesser known but no less desirable species and races that exist out there. Why should vamps and werewolves get all the fun, especially when the odd ducks are so much sexier?
Pick up the UNUSUAL SEDUCTIONS anthology (on Preorder now!) and get lost in some sexy and fun stories with characters just off the beaten path.


Symphony of Night (Chronicles of the Fallen)
by Julie Morgan
 
The veil has lowered and the human race now realizes they are not alone. We live among the supernatural, but there’s a catch; you only see them if you have the supernatural gene. Humans want to declare war, but how do you fight against a force you cannot see?
 
My name is Jac and I’m the last Valkyrie. My best friend and guardian, Rowan, is a gargoyle. The portal to our world has closed, keeping the supernatural trapped on earth. That is until word is out about a stone with powers to open it. It’s not just any stone, it is THE stone.
 
Tasked by Archangel Michael to locate this stone, I manage to pick up a band of misfits willing to help me in my quest. One of them is Kai, an Oni. Samuel, the first of the Fallen, is also out for the stone, and plans on using to his advantage. What happens if the stone falls into the wrong hands? Appearances can be deceiving, and alliances will form. Are the humans in the right for raging war, and are the supernatural justified to fight back? How do you choose who’s right, and who’s wrong?
 

Author Bio:
 
Originally from Burleson, Texas Julie always had a love of books, especially paranormal stories. Julie finally took the leap to begin writing with encouragement from her family.
Having worked in IT her entire career, Julie now spends her free time writing. Living in Central Florida with her husband and daughter, her favorite pastime is reading children's stories to her daughter, especially those around animals.

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Sex and the Supernatural
by Stella Price (S.A. Price)
 
Tara Gavin belongs to the Nightshade Society, an elite group that takes care of all the nasties that roam the night, especially ghosts in all their wicked incarnations. A woman with secrets of her own, she is plagued by an insatiable need for physical contact on a daily basis.
 
Two nights before Halloween she’s called in to save some stupid amateur ghost hunters from a house that has long been on the Societies black list, and gets trapped inside. Trapped, with a sexy man with horns that is not supposed to be there.
 
Antaeus Folle is a demon who was tricked into the caretakership of the Hoyt Mansion and its murderous inhabitants. When all hell breaks loose and he finds a sexy, dangerous as hell woman snagged in a trap room, he realizes that if he plays his cards right, he could end his tenure as babysitter and go back to the life he was ripped from. He just didn’t count on the woman he sees as a savior being the biggest temptation he’s ever had.
 
Having to work together, despite growing attraction on both sides, is not going to be easy. Ant will have to open his world up to another, and Tara will have to trust a demon with her life, and possibly her heart. With two days till they can get out of the Hoyt Mansion, whatever will they do?
 


Author Bio:

 
Bi-continental, Stella and Audra break all misconceptions about siblings. Writing as a team they have produced well over thirty novels under two names: Stella and Audra Price and S.A. Price as well as several novella's and short stories, and nary an argument has come from it.
On their off time from writing, Audra is a chemist artist and Stella is a graphic artist and web designer, as well as the convention director for the Authors After Dark convention. They both love animals and have several including snakes and a peacock.
Audra lives in Scotland with her husband and children, while Stella Lives in South Carolina with her dog and Poe and her husband.


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Sealed in Blood- The Hellbound Chronicles
by Christine Alvarez
 
An agreement sealed in blood, forged by the blind love of a mother for her daughter, but was it the right choice?
 
Claire, a being created from the union of man and angel, has been hidden in plain sight, her lineage kept a secret from everyone - including herself. Kyon, a Hellhound, has been sent to collect her soul, but one look and those plans have changed.
 
What happens when fate intervenes? When you fall for the soul you were meant to take? Or for the being that was meant to kill you?
 
All Hell breaks loose and you take on the demon’s wrath.
 


Author Bio:

I am Christine Alvarez, a mother of four spectacular hoodlums and married to my other half. Writing has been a passion my entire life and until now becoming an Author was only a dream. I am a stay at home mother which never leaves a dull moment. I am not a sports enthusiast and quite frankly I'm probably allergic to exercise.
 
My guilty pleasures are Dr. Pepper and chocolate. They have both been at my side many of nights as I write. I write anything from paranormal romance to dark erotica. You will probably find as I release more books that my work may cover anything from the happily ever after endings to the dark and broken ending and pretty much all the areas in between.

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My Name is Cer - Mythogical Messes Redux
by Tilly Greene
 
Cerberus, the hellhound of the Underworld, is given the task to accompany his queen wherever she wants to go and she picks modern day London. The duo is ready to indulge in shopping for her and plenty of naked willing ladies for him, only they’re greeted in the new world by violence.
Leaving a horrifying mess of blood and bodies behind, they find a hotel and connect with Kate Bentley. As a staff member, she sees that their every need is fulfilled and more with a visit to a lingerie shop. The playful and randy sides of Cer merge together with Kate and he can’t shake what he starts feeling for her.
Cer is a dog at heart, but after an erotic show, a kinky bra, Kate calling him Sir, and a couple men from Scotland Yard, there may be too many changes for them to go back to where they were.
 


Author Bio:

 
Whether traveling or sitting in her office, Tilly Greene researches and writes erotica and erotic romance novels in a variety of genres and sub-genres like shape shifter, paranormal, contemporary and futuristics, and themes such as BDSM, multiculturalism and ménages. Every day she looks forward to writing about women who are independent and confident, the men who love them, and their twisting passionate path to each other.

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Loving the Monster Within
by Cassidy Kristi O'Connor
 
Penelope Harbough has dedicated her life to her job at a home for battered women and children. With such a stressful and heartbreaking job, she finds her solace in the arms of Frank – a gargoyle statue that sits atop her building watching over the city. She spills her heart to him daily while watching the sun rise.
Asald sold his soul for the woman he loved. After upsetting the prince of Hell, he is cursed to become the monster he feared was inside him. To make up for some of the guilt, he takes it upon himself to protect the women of the shelter. A vigilante. A modern day winged Robin Hood, of sorts. Until he’s forced to reveal himself…
Love trapped him but can it save him, too? When Penelope learns the truth, will she run screaming or will love prevail?
 


Author Bio:
 
Cassidy K O'Connor is a born and raised Floridian who loves to travel but never forgets where her roots are. She married her high school sweetheart, they have 3 kids and a crazy dog. Travelling and reading are her two favorite hobbies. Cassidy loves all things Ireland and has been lucky enough to visit twice. Her dream is to watch a baseball game in every MLB stadium in the country.
She is passionate about Building Women Up and helps run a site dedicated to enriching women's lives.
Find out more about me on my website: www.CassidyKOConnor.com

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Goated by the Gods
by Sheri Lyn
 
Their family cursed by the God Thor long ago, the Maddux brothers are forced to walk the earth as both goats and men. Maddening at first, the family has since learned to use their curse to their advantage and wouldn't trade it for anything, except maybe love. Finding someone to accept them- both sides- is proving difficult.
 
Thor feels guilty that time slipped away from him in the mortal realm, he never meant for the curse to last as long as it has. In an attempt to make up for it, Thor takes it upon himself to help the brothers find their soulmates, with the help of the Trickster god himself, Loki.
 
A Matchmaking service run by Thor and Loki? This should be fun, but when the gods are involved, nothing is ever easy.
 


Author Bio:

Hi I'm Sheri Lyn. I live in Florida with the love of my life, my dog Koda a Corgi/Dwarf Chow mix. I love living here and couldn't imagine living anywhere else.

I just started my journey into the indie book world. I have books in several genres in the works. I'm an avid reader who kept dreaming of a story that wanted to be told and that's where my first book was born.
When I'm not reading or proofing, I'm at the evil day job where my sanity is tested on a daily basis. My sarcastic quips can provide a much needed break until I can return home to Koda and books, my two joys.
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Spotlight w/Excerpt & Giveaway - I Dream of Dragons by Ashlyn Chase

I Dream of Dragons
by Ashlyn Chase


THE HEAT IS ON

When Rory Arish and his two fiery dragon siblings are run out of their ancestral Irish home, it seems their luck has run out—until they arrive in Boston and find a paranormal-friendly apartment building. Finally, Rory has a place to call home. There’s only one problem: Rory’s new lair has simultaneously been rented to an infuriating woman who is as stubborn as she is beautiful and will not leave ‘her’ apartment matter how steamed he may be…
 

AND SPARKS FLY

Amber McNally is a down-on-her-luck flight attendant. She needs this apartment, and not even a fire-breathing dragon with his Irish charm and scorching good looks is going to scare her away. Holing up in their respective corners, a battle of wills ensues. Who will be the first to blink…or give in to their off-the-charts chemistry and decide to make this unorthodox living arrangement a little more permanent?

  

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Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Spotlight & Giveaway - Patchwork Paradise by Indra Vaughn


 
 

Oliver and Samuel’s relationship is fairy-tale perfect. They share a gorgeous house in Antwerp, go out with their friends every weekend, and count down the days to their dream wedding. But their happy ending is shattered one late night, and just like that, Ollie is left bereft and alone. 

The months that follow are long and dark, but slowly Ollie emerges from his grief. He even braves the waters of online dating, though deep down he doesn’t believe he can find that connection again. He doesn’t think to look for love right in front of him: his bisexual friend Thomas, the gentle giant with a kind heart and sad eyes who’s wanted him all along. 

When Thomas suddenly discovers he has a son who needs him, he’s ill prepared. Ollie opens up his house—Sam’s house—and lets them in. Ollie doesn’t know what scares him more: the responsibility of caring for a baby, or the way Thomas is steadily winning his heart. It will take all the courage he has to discover whether or not fairy tales can happen for real. 
 

 

About Indra Vaughn: 

After living in Michigan, USA for seven wonderful years, Indra Vaughn returned back to her Belgian roots. There she will continue to consume herbal tea, do yoga wherever the mat fits, and devour books while single parenting a little boy and working as a nurse. 

The stories of boys and their unrequited love will no doubt keep finding their way onto the page—and hopefully into readers hands—even if it takes a little more time. 

And if she gleefully posts pictures of snow-free streets in winter, you'll have to forgive her. Those Michigan blizzards won't be forgotten in a hurry.
 

Connect with Indra: 

·         Facebook https://www.facebook.com/indra.vaughn.7

·         Twitter https://twitter.com/VaughnIndra 

 

Giveaway: 
To celebrate, Indra is giving away an ebook from her backlist at EVERY BLOG STOP!
She’ll also be giving out a grand prize of $25 in Riptide credit.
Leave a comment to enter the contest.
Entries close at midnight, Eastern time, on April 2, 2016.
Contest is NOT restricted to U.S. entries.
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Author Interview & Excerpt - In Her Eyes by Wesley Banks


In Her Eyes
Wesley Banks 
Genre: Sports Romance * Publisher: Chasing Pace Publishing
Date of Publication: 3/14/16 * ISBN: 978-0-9861934-2-2
Number of pages: 264 * Word Count: 57,000
Cover Artist: Dane at eBook Launch 

Book Description:
When Ben Wilder is given a second chance he focuses on the one thing he's always been good at: running. After walking on to the University of Florida he begins to quickly move up the national rankings, paving a path towards the NCAA Track and Field Championships. Everything is going the way he planned, until the day he bumps into Casey Taylor.
New to Gainesville, and focused on her first year out of medical school, Casey is initially hesitant to let Ben into her life. But the truth is she's worried about letting a guy near the one thing she loves most: her daughter, Emma. After one fun and fateful night Casey can no long bury her feelings behind these excuses, and takes a chance on a guy she is slowly falling for.
Casey's relationship with Ben starts to gradually build into a love that she has never felt. But more importantly Emma has taken a particular liking to Ben. As they all spend more time together Ben is forced to confront painful memories when he starts to notice something hauntingly familiar in Emma's eyes.
After a local journalist uncovers the secret of Ben's past their lives begin to converge on a single promise that Ben Wilder has long since made: to never give up...no matter what.

Excerpt - Hold Your Breath by Katie Ruggle

Hold Your Breath
by Katie Ruggle
 
 
In the remote Rocky Mountains, lives depend on the Search & Rescue brotherhood. But in a place this far off the map, trust is hard to come by and secrets can be murder… 

As the captain of Field County’s ice rescue dive team, Callum Cook is driven to perfection. But when he meets new diver Louise “Lou” Sparks, all that hard-won order is obliterated in an instant. Lou is a hurricane. A walking disaster. And with her, he’s never felt more alive…even if keeping her safe may just kill him. 

Lou’s new to the Rockies, intent on escaping her controlling ex, and she’s determined to make it on her own terms…no matter how tempting Callum may be. But when a routine training exercise unearths a body, Lou and Callum find themselves thrust into a deadly game of cat and mouse with a killer who will stop at nothing to silence Lou—and prove that not even her new Search and Rescue family can keep her safe forever.


Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Author Interview w/Excerpt & Giveaway - Collateral Damage by Gwenan Haines


Collateral Damage

by Gwenan Haines 

GENRE: Romantic suspense 

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For three years Laura Drake has watched Senator Pete Worthington promote a series of gorgeous women while she sits in a forgotten corner answering constituent letters on an outdated computer. When Worthington asks her to find an elusive file one Friday night he sets off a series of events that brands her as a killer and puts her life in jeopardy. The path she sets out on forces her to confront not only the nature of evil but the ghosts from her past that have never been set to rest.FBI Agent Dalton Ross transferred from Chicago to Washington to escape his own ghosts. When his investigation leads him to Laura he's torn between his desire to keep her safe and the need to protect his own heart. As the mystery that surrounds them deepens, Laura and Dalton race to save themselves and the nation from someone willing to sacrifice anything to protect a secret. 

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Excerpt - Wolf on Wheels (Heritage Series, Book 1) by Layne Macadam



Wolf on Wheels
Heritage Series, Book 1 
by Layne Macadam 
Genre: Paranormal Erotic Shifter


 
Wolf Shifter Caleb Grayson’s opinion of humans is lower than a rattlesnake’s belly, that is, until Lara Walker comes into his life. But can the pretty veterinarian, with her marmalade curls and flashing green eyes, be trusted with his secret?

As alpha of his pack he is duty bound to keep them safe and, with genocidal hunters closing in on them, that means maintaining anonymity. So will sharing his secret strengthen Lara’s and his relationship? Or will it send her running in horror and announcing his heritage to the world?

When the decision to reveal all is snatched out of his hands the revelation, not only turns her world inside out but it has far-reaching repercussions neither could have imagined.

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Release Blitz w/Excerpt - Soldier's Heart (Wounded Love #2) by Megan Green

 
Soldier’s Heart
Wounded Love #2
Author: Megan Green
Release Date: March 29, 2016
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Isaiah Wright is broken. So broken he's positive he'll never be fixed again. Surviving every soldier's worst nightmare is enough for him to want nothing more than to give into the blackness that plagues him.
 
Emma Nicholls knows pain. Four years after the devastating loss of her fiancé, she's set up her own business providing service dogs to veterans in an attempt to put her own life back together.
 
Circumstance brings Isaiah into her life, but neither are prepared for the fire that burns between them. It's immediate, one broken soul finding solace in another, but it's also... terrifying.
 
His soldier's heart is surrounded by walls ten feet high. But maybe, just maybe, Emma and her brood of trainee service dogs can break through and be the light he so desperately needs.
 
 
 

Monday, March 28, 2016

Review & Giveaway - The Total Package by Stephanie Evanovich


 
THE TOTAL PACKAGE
Stephanie Evanovich
Releasing March 15th, 2016
William Morrow



Smart and sexy Dani Carr knows as much about football as any man--maybe more. It’s always been her dream to make a living talking about the game she loves. But Dani’s not interested in being just the usual eye-candy sideline reporter; she wants to be the first woman analyst on a pre-game show, the ultimate in exclusive boys-club jobs. And it turns out, that despite the odds, she has the talent to get her there.

Star quarterback-and heartthrob--Tyson Palmer always did things in spectacular fashion, including ruining his career after debuting as a first-round draft pick. When the head coach of the Austin Mavericks refuses to let him waste his million dollar arm, Tyson makes a Hail Mary pass at redemption and succeeds with everyone…except Dani, who appears to be using her high-profile commentator job to make a name for herself at his expense.

Dani refuses to let anyone forget about Tyson’s transgressions….and for good reason. There’s history between these two, sizzling history that dates back to their college days, and it ended in another spectacular flame-out of Tyson’s. He’s conveniently forgotten all about that episode because Dani is no longer the cute girl next door he barely remembers--she’s a bombshell with huge ratings and a long memory.

But can a woman trying to claw her way to the top and a quarterback who knows all about rock bottom make it to the Super Bowl without destroying each other in the process? And what will happen when Tyson-riding high on his career comeback-realizes he needs to make an even more important comeback with Dani?



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Spotlight w/Excerpt - Unicorn: Addiction, Guilt and a Decision That Will Change Her Life by L.E. Get



Unicorn: Addiction, Guilt and a Decision That Will Change Her Life
Author: L.E. Get
Publisher: Telemachus Press
Pages: 240
Genre: Women’s Fiction/Literary Fiction/Drama

Scarlet has the life most only dream about—she travels the world, she makes plenty of money and she has the best friend anyone could ask for.
But, piece by piece, her world is falling apart because of her damaged family, years of resentment and her sister’s drug and alcohol addiction. Scarlet tries to keep it together, but when her sister desperately needs help, Scarlet has to make a decision that will change every part of her life. Unicorn is a story of internal struggle, choices, and a broken family.

For More Information:

  • Unicorn: Addiction, Guilt, and a Decision That Will Change Her Life is available at Amazon.
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  • Discuss this book at PUYB Virtual Book Club at Goodreads.

Release Day Blitz - Touch the Sky (Free Fall, Book 1) by Christina Lee & Nyrae Dawn

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Touch the Sky
Free Fall, Book 1
Christina Lee & Nyrae Dawn
New Adult M/M Romance
 
Touch The Sky Cover
COVER DESIGN: Natasha Snow
PHOTOGRAPHY: Giovanni Dall’Orto
RELEASE DATE: 03.28.16
 
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Lucas Barnett and Gabriel Stewart didn’t have it easy as kids. They were only trying to deal with bad situations at home when they became lifelines for each other. Their pipe dream was to someday meet in LA, where Lucas would design skyscrapers, and Gabriel would learn to fly. But then Gabriel disappeared without so much as a goodbye, and Lucas got himself in trouble with the law.
 
Five years later, both men are at a loss when they run into each other at a Hollywood bar. Lucas is still angry, but it’s not as if Gabriel could control how his mind and body had betrayed him. Being found on the ledge of that bridge had changed everything.
 
The attraction is immediate, but it’s more than their inability to keep their hands off each other. Neither man expects the fierce connection pulling them together. Unfortunately, ignoring their problems doesn’t make them disappear. Gabriel’s internal struggles are serious…dangerous. And no matter how much Lucas wants it to be true, saving Gabriel won’t make up for not being able to save his mom. If they don’t find the strength to face their own demons before the darkness takes hold, they risk more than just losing each other forever.
 
 
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Small airplane against a stormy sunset sky
 
EXCERPT:
 
I grab a piece of pizza and we finish the whole box, while drinking soda and watching a horror flick on TV. With each minute that passes, Gabe gets closer to me. It’s not one of those lame-ass things you see in movies, where the distance keeps shrinking while they get the balls to make a move. I just think Gabe craves contact—skin and flesh and warmth. And even though I’m not typically like that, I suddenly want to give it to him. Or maybe I’m just a selfish bastard and I’m fooling myself because I really just crave him.

So I do it, blatantly just move closer. Our legs touch, jeans against jeans. Our arms though? That’s skin against skin and I think maybe I really do crave skin and flesh and warmth the same way he does. At least when it’s him, I do.

The movie ends, and out of the corner of my eye, I see his head turn. Feel his gaze on me.

I want to taste him.

Me taste him. I’ve felt his lips twice and both times were both Gabe’s doing. This time it’ll be mine. I turn to him, touch his cheek with my left hand, let his hair slide through my fingers and then grab on.

Then I’m leaning forward, my tongue at the seam of his lips. Gabe opens up for me and I thrust my tongue inside. The feel of him, the taste of him goes straight to my head—both my dick and the one on my shoulders.

He moans into my mouth as I push closer to him. Reading my body language, Gabe turns, lies down so that he’s on his back and I’m between his legs, leaning over him.

My dick aches. I feel his, hard and thick against my stomach as I kiss him deeper.

“I can’t believe you’re here,” I say as my lips slide down his neck. I can’t believe I just said that either.

Gabe’s hand tightens in my hair and his hips move, as he rubs his erection against me.

“I can’t believe it either.” He’s breathless, his voice hoarse with lust. It rocks through me and I suddenly want nothing more than to see what he looks like when he comes.  


ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
 
Nyrae Dawn
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Nyrae Dawn can almost always be found with a book in her hand or an open document on her laptop. She couldn’t live without books—reading or writing them. Oh, and chocolate. She’s slightly addicted.
 
She gravitates toward character-driven stories. Whether reading or writing, she loves emotional journeys. It’s icing on the cake when she really feels something, but is able to laugh too. She’s a proud romantic, who has a soft spot for flawed characters, who make mistakes, but also have big hearts.
 
Whether she’s writing young adult, new adult, or adult you can always count on a healthy dose of romance from her books. She likes to tackle tough subjects, and believes everyone needs to see themselves in the stories they read.
 
Nyrae is living her very own happily ever after in California with her gorgeous husband (who still makes her swoon) and her two incredibly awesome kids.

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Twitter: @NyraeDawn
 

Christina Lee
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Once upon a time, I lived in New York City and was a wardrobe stylist. I spent my days shopping for photo shoots, getting into cabs, eating amazing food, and drinking coffee at my favorite hangouts.
Now I live in the Midwest with my husband and son—my two favorite guys. I've been a clinical social worker and a special education teacher. But it wasn't until I wrote a weekly column for the local newspaper that I realized I could turn the fairytales inside my head into the reality of writing fiction.
 
I write Adult, New Adult, and M/M Contemporary Romance. I'm addicted to lip gloss and salted caramel everything. I believes in true love and kissing, so writing romance novels has become a dream job.

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Friday, March 25, 2016

Spotlight & Giveaway - Trailer Trash by Marie Sexton




Hello, everybody. I'm Marie Sexton, and I'm thrilled to be here today talking about my New Adult novel, Trailer Trash.
Trailer Trash is the story of two high school seniors – Cody, the poor kid from the wrong side of the tracks, and Nate, the new kid in town. It's set in the fictional town of Warren, Wyoming in the mid-1980s.  

I spent the first eleven years of my life in a small town in Wyoming. Granted, my hometown wasn't anywhere near as small or as isolated as Warren. And to tell you the truth, we didn't move all that far – from Western Wyoming to Fort Collins, Colorado. But it was far enough to encounter a couple of differences that can only be chalked up to regional traditions and idiosyncrasies. 

1.    "Uptown" vs. "Downtown": In my hometown, we went "uptown." Here in Colorado, we go "downtown." I asked a friend from small-town Kansas. He confirmed that they went "uptown" as well. So what determines "uptown" vs. "downtown"? I have no idea. Anybody out there know?

2.    Penny candy: I suppose this probably has more to do with the year than the region, but as a kid, there was a gas station across the street that still had penny candy – an entire case full of all different kinds of candy, all of which were 1¢ each. When my cousin came over, my mom would hand us each a dollar, and we'd cross the County Road unattended (which no parent would allow their child to do in this day and age!) and spend a LONG time picking out exactly one hundred pieces of candy. The Swedish fish were my favorite. It took me years to find them again (although they're everywhere now).  

 

3.    Squeakies: The men back home always went out "shootin' squeakies" for fun. I mentioned this years later to my friends in Colorado, and they just about fell over dead laughing. "What the hell is a 'squeakie'?" Well, I had no idea. It was a rodent. I knew that much. Presumably, it squeaked, at least on occasion. Why was everybody so determined to kill them? I didn't know that either. I tried Google and got nowhere. The only entry I found was in a self-published autobiography of a man who'd spent a few years in my hometown, but he didn't seem to know what they were either. My stepfather told me squeakies were actually Thompson's ground squirrels, but while a search for the term "thompson's ground squirrel" brings up images, a bit more research leads me to think that this too is only a regional nickname for some other type of rodent. Lists like these (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spermophilus and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urocitellus) fail to mention the Thompson's ground squirrel at all. So, what exactly is a squeakie and why the heck was everybody so gung-ho to shoot them? I'm still not entirely sure.

4.    Ironport: I miss Ironport so much. What is it, you ask? Well, I'll copy/paste from good ol' Wikipedia: "Ironport (sometimes spelled as two words: Iron Port) is an old-fashioned carbonated soft drink from the early part of the 20th century that was served at soda fountains and is still popular in the Intermountain West… The flavor has been described as somewhat of a cross between root beer and Caribbean spices and is very similar to the Cuban soda, Iron Beer." Those of you from certain parts of Utah or Idaho might be familiar with it. They served it in my hometown, once upon a time, but not anymore, and it's never been available here in Colorado. We went to the Idaho panhandle a couple of years ago for my BIL's wedding, and I asked everybody about Ironport, but nobody knew what I was talking about. Darn it, I'll have one again someday, I swear! 
 

So, how about you? Any strange regional things from your hometown that you can't explain? Anything you miss and can't find? Have thoughts on "uptown" vs. "downtown"?
 
Please share in the comments. (And if you can send me an Ironport, I'll give you a book for free!)  

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About Trailer Trash: 

It’s 1986, and what should have been the greatest summer of Nate Bradford’s life goes sour when his parents suddenly divorce. Now, instead of spending his senior year in his hometown of Austin, Texas, he’s living with his father in Warren, Wyoming, population 2,833 (and Nate thinks that might be a generous estimate). There’s no swimming pool, no tennis team, no mall—not even any MTV. The entire school’s smaller than his graduating class back home, and in a town where the top teen pastimes are sex and drugs, Nate just doesn’t fit in. 

Then Nate meets Cody Lawrence. Cody’s dirt-poor, from a broken family, and definitely lives on the wrong side of the tracks. Nate’s dad says Cody’s bad news. The other kids say he’s trash. But Nate knows Cody’s a good kid who’s been dealt a lousy hand. In fact, he’s beginning to think his feelings for Cody go beyond friendship. 

Admitting he might be gay is hard enough, but between small-town prejudices and the growing AIDS epidemic dominating the headlines, a town like Warren, Wyoming, is no place for two young men to fall in love.

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 About Marie Sexton: 

Marie Sexton lives in Colorado. She’s a fan of just about anything that involves muscular young men piling on top of each other. In particular, she loves the Denver Broncos and enjoys going to the games with her husband. Her imaginary friends often tag along.

Marie has one daughter, two cats, and one dog, all of whom seem bent on destroying what remains of her sanity. She loves them anyway.
 

Connect with Marie: 

·         Website: MarieSexton.net

·         Twitter: @MarieSexton

·         Facebook: facebook.com/MarieSexton.author

·         Goodreads: goodreads.com/MarieSexton

 

 Giveaway: 
To celebrate, Marie is giving away a $50 gift card to either Amazon or All Romance Ebooks, winner’s choice.
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Entries close at midnight, Eastern time, on March 26, 2016.
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