multicultural romance – Page 7 – Dahlia DeWinters

Blogtoberfest – Scary Stories – Survivor Type

Yes. It’s a Stephen King story. No, it’s not one of the ones that have been made into a movie. However, I will tell you right now, even thinking of the story…it is one that I’ve read twice and not one that I will come back to any time soon. It’s a story about a shipwreck, just like Cast Away, but King grabs your hand and forces you down a path to make you closely examine the situation: You are stranded on a desert island with little hope of rescue…and little food. How far will you go to survive? You’ll see what one man’s desperation will lead him to. The story is not available as a stand alone, as far as I know, but as part of Skeleton Crew, an older selection of stories that are King at his best, at least in my opinion. (Not that it matters, really,… Continued

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Blogtoberfest – Magic (and not the Mike kind)

This is a movie that scared the mess out of me when I was a teenager. First of all, I am no fan of ventriloquist dummies. I can’t stand them, they scare the heck out of me. Give me a movie with a dummy and you’ve got me scared. A looooooong time ago, back in 1978, there was this movie trailer that ran on television. Mind you, this was back in the fun 70s where the cars waiting in line for gas would queue in front of my parents’ house. This trailer wasn’t anything NEAR Silent Hill 3d (which by the way also frightens me with its grotesqueness) but was creepy just in the fact that it featured a dummy. The movie was directed by Richard Attenborough, the kindly old John Hammond in Jurassic Park. You’ll also find Burgess Meredith, Ann-Margaret, and Here’s the creepy trailer. According to Wikipedia

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The Wisest Maiden Blog Tour – Week Two

The Wisest Maiden… A peasant girl matches wits with a powerful king in a battle to stay alive after being forced into a one-night-only marriage The Wisest Maiden…. Blog Tour Week Two – Catch up on what you missed! Rosanna Leo’s Room Boundless as the Sea Review and Excerpt – Chacelyn Pierce Massage for a Better Sex Life- Nikki Prince Freaky Friday’s Hot Excerpt – On the Island of DX Luc I can’t thank my author colleagues enough for hosting me this week. What a whirlwind! And if you missed Week One….

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The Wisest Maiden – Blog Tour – Week One

The time is finally here – my fairy tale/fantasy story “The Wisest Maiden” had been released by Liquid Silver Books! After she is forced into marriage with a powerful ruler who deflowers and kills his brides, Issalia is compelled to use her wits to avoid the executioner’s axe. But can she avoid having her heart captured by the deeply wounded king? Did you miss Week One? You can still visit! Check out the links below. Week One Monday— Excerpt Interracial/Multicultural Books Tuesday— Pineapple: Your P*ssy’s Best Friend: W. Lynn Chantale’s Blog Wednesday— The Importance of Word Choice Book Babe’s Blog Thursday—Toridesh: The King Exposed Lorraine Nelson’s Blog Friday—Issalia’s Speaks: Boost Your Sex Life with Aromatherapy Shyla Colt’s Straight Shot

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Support for MC/IR Writers, Information for their Readers

With the recent announcement of the Romance Writers of America sanctioning a chapter that deals with Multicultural and Interracial Authors of romances, I decided to take figurative pen in hand and make some comments. MC= Multicultural and IR= Interracial. Note that all IR is multicultural, but not all MC is IR. J Writers need support. We need support through those times where we’ve done a manuscript and thought it was the worst thing we’ve ever written. We need support with the promotion that we are doing with our books. We need support when mapping out our next great idea. Our readers want to know what’s new, what’s happening, what’s going on. They want to be there when our book releases, so they can be ahead of the wave. I am pleased that the Romance Writers of America have finally acknowledged that yes, there are writers and readers of multicultural and

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Coming Soon – The Wisest Maiden

Writing is easy compared to the editing process. It’s difficult to take words that you’ve already written, that you’ve already determined that they say what you want them to say, then tweak them to make them more evocative. But I tell you, the hardest part of the process of getting a book into e-print is the blurb. So, here is the “work of art” that made me pull my hair out in the space of fifteen minutes: After she is forced into marriage with a powerful ruler who deflowers and kills his brides, Issalia is compelled to use her wits to avoid the executioner’s axe. But can she avoid having her heart captured by the deeply wounded king? You have no idea (or perhaps you do) how difficult that was to write! Without further ado, here is the cover reveal and longer blur for The Wisest Maiden: The Wisest