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Welcome Trish Marie Dawson!

Thank you Julia for inviting me to your blog today! It's the month of love so why not talk about romance? I'm a writer, as you already know, so why not talk about writing romance? I'm a writer that loves music, so why not take it a step further and talk about the playlist I used to write my short romance story, 'Hawke & the Beast' in the Moon Rose Publishing Anthology 'Once Upon A Twisted Time'?

See how I did that, snuck that book in there? LOL I have a teeny bit of romance in most of my work, but I'd consider my Anthology short as my one true romance story and yes, I do write while listening to music and what I fill my playlists with might just surprise you.

Trish Marie Dawson

Don't know what 'Hawke & the Beast' is about? Here's a short blurb:

Some curses last forever, and some can be broken with the whisper of three little words.

Isabella Rose Woodward fell in love with a witch's son over a century ago. Her punishment for breaking the young man's heart was a beastly one. Every month she turns into a different creature, aging on the full moon when her curse allows for a brief return to her human form. Her only salvation is to find a man that will love her as she is…be it adorned in feathers, furs or scales.

Has she found this love with the handsome Jasper Hawke? Or will a mysteriously determined Hunter find her first, and snuff out the life she so desperately seeks? A life of normalcy, where she loves and is loved in return… just as she is.

I wrote this Anthology piece with three other very talented writers: Miranda Stork, Lindsay Avalon and Tara S. Wood. The Anthology takes traditional fairytales and flips them over, turns them inside out and gives them a darker and sexier twist. Yes, I said sexier. It only took weeks to write my piece of the Anthology, but it took mere hours to put together the writing playlist that allowed my mind to wander off to wild and romantic places. Here are the songs in no particular order (and please don't laugh - not all are romance ballads):

Delicate by Damien Rice

For the First Time by The Script

The Funeral by Band of Horses

Talking to the Moon by Bruno Mars

Marry You by Bruno Mars

Stop and Stare by OneRepublic

Who You Are by Jessie J

Even Now by Dashboard Confessional

Jar Of Hearts by Christina Perri

Angel by Sarah McLachlan

Someone Like You by Adele

You Want To Make A Memory by Bon Jovi

Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol

Home by Michael Bublé

Love The Way You Lie by Eminem

Please Send Me Someone To Love by Sade

Open Your Eyes by Snow Patrol

Dare You To Move by Switchfoot

Apologize by OneRepublic

Cry to Me by Solomon Burke

Unchained Melody by The Righteous Brothers

Don't You Forget About Me by Simple Minds

Into the West by Annie Lennox

So, yeah - this is quite an eclectic playlist to write a romance with but it worked! There are some songs on here that I would hit repeat on over and over again and others that I would skip if I wasn't in the mood to hear them. Usually though, what happens is that I get so into writing with the right music that I tend to not hear most of the songs. They become my wall, my buffer to the world around me. I have cats. If you have cats than you know they are obsessed with getting in your way when you are writing or reading. I have kids. If you have kids than I don't need to explain further - you know what life is like.

Music has a way of freeing the soul. For a writer, our souls are already loose and untethered to reality, but pair our writing with a good song and we can create anything.

Thanks for having me here with you today Julia! I wish you all a romantic February - whether you listen to love songs with your love, or listen to love songs to remember your lost loves - the music will never die…it will never leave you. And words last forever. Lose yourself in a good romance, and don't come up for air until the story plays in your head like a song.

Excerpt 
'Hawke & The Beast'

PROLOGUE

The full moon shined brightly again. It is the only evening of the month that she is free of feathers, furs or scales. Free to be her true self. Wrapped only in a sheet, bound just below her small breasts so that the hem of the cotton fabric dragged slowly through the dirt, she walked softly and quietly down the narrow road, watching the moon as it made a slow arc across the star-filled night. The woody air was fresh, filling her nasal passages with the pure essence of the national forest that surrounded her. Windy whispers shared with her the soft secrets of the last century passed; of the time she missed while lost in animal form. She was a day older tonight, and though over a century had crept by, her body had only aged just over eleven years in the last one hundred and thirty.

She knew this road well, for she had traveled it many times over the past several months. Once as a rabbit…then a rattlesnake, and most recently she was a kangaroo rat. Her curse, exceedingly cruel and awful, also bestowed a certain sense of humor; alternating her animal transitions between hunter and prey, so that she never had a peaceful existence. Never. In the morning she would awaken as another creature of the California mountains, but tonight…tonight she was just…herself.

She - the girl who fell in love with a witch's son many, many moons ago. Forever paying the price until the wicked hand of fate takes pity on her, and allows another to love her as she is…even if that means she is forever adorned in feathers, furs and scales…

'HAWKE and the BEAST'
By Trish Marie Dawson

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A SUMMONER'S TALE: the vampire's confessor
BLACK SWAN 3 

AUTHOR: by Victoria Danann
PUBLISHER: 7th House
ISBN: 978-1-933320-67-0 ebook Words: 107,000
978-1-933320-80-9 print Pages: 350
GENRE: vampire romance, paranormal romance, urban fantasy, paranormal fantasy
RELEASE DATE: February 14, 2013
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This is the third installment in a serial saga intended to be read in order.

DESCRIPTION: A secret society, a witch, a psychic, vampires, modern day knights, heroes, elves, fae, assassins from another dimension, and fairytales come together where emotions intersect. Two souls, joined by a mystical bond, separated by distance, must simultaneously struggle through pain and darkness in an ultimate confrontation with character and an ultimate struggle for life proving that true love waits patiently through lifetimes and finds courage to survive. Even in the strangest places. Even when you're least expecting it. Even when you're far, far from home.

 Erotic quotient: A little steam. No menage. No BDSM. 

IMPORTANT: Black Swan Books 2 and 3 are available on Amazon.com exclusively as single titles. However, a The Order of the Black Swan COLLECTED TALES, Books 1-3 will also be released on or around Feb. 14th in e-book everywhere. This is the story as it was intended to be read - without interruption.

ISBN: 978-1-933320-70-0      313,000 words      All three books for $6.99

 

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For the past fourteen years, Victoria has illustrated and authored Seasons of the Witch calendars and planners and written several non-fiction books on magickal arts. She lives in a town north of Houston known as The Woodlands even though the idea of the witch in the woods may be a cliché.

She owns 7th House Publishing and contributes to its enterprises. In addition to art and writing, she plays Classic Rock music (keys, rhythm guitar, vocals) and manages one of Houston's premier party bands. Married. Four children.

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The Grand Prizes

1.) Two Kindle Paperwhites

2.) Three sets of Black Swan: Books 1-3 paperbacks signed by Victoria Danann (1 and 2 being US only)
3.) Twenty sets of Black Swan: Books 1-3 e-books and 

4.( $60 choice gift card
..The Kindle Paperwhites also come with a book package, as well as the gift card.

The following authors have donated their books:
Read 2 Review (Kate) and GMTA UK: (5 to 10 books that will be announced)
Danica Avet Winners: choice of backlist
Airicka Phoenix: E-copy of Games of Fire, Touching Smoke, & Touching Eternity
Katie Salidas: E-copy of Moonlight and Sweet Surprises! By her and Willsin Rowe which also releases on Feb 14!
Sara Trimble: E-copy of A Woman's Revenge
Michelle Graham: E-copy of Landing the Big Ones
Kim Mullican: Yoder's Farm, Taking Control (Book 1 Control Series),Control (Book 2 Control Series), Immortal Decision
Cambria Hebert: Ecopy of Recalled and a Winners Choice from the Heven and Hell Series Ecopy
M.L. Stephens: Ecopy of Love You More
J Kelly Acinni: 5 sets of paperback copies of Baby and Echo US only
Susan Griscom: Reflections and Whisper Cape
MaryLynn Bast: Heart of a Wolf Series
Susan D. Taylor: Secret Desire
Tara Lain: Beach Balls

And a big thank you to:

 Dani-Lyn Alexander, Lisa Simington, Kym Grosso, and Liberty Ann for making the giftcard possible!!!

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