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Fan Letter to an Author: Moira Rogers (with shocking new pics!)
Kassa came up with the fabulous idea to give back to our favorite authors by writing fan letters to them and posting to our blog. I have found and loved so many new authors this year and there are so many authors I have loved over the years… choosing one was difficult. You can check out yesterday’s fan letter at I Love Books.
So, I sat down to write a heart felt letter to an author…. yet I couldn’t get the words out. Let’s face it, I am not a heart felt sappy letter type of girl. Instead, you are getting my hopefully funny, but just as cool letter to my favorite new to me author of the last year.
Dear Moira Rogers,
Or should I say Bree and Donna? Or maybe @moirarogersbree and @donnajherren considering I am your permanent twitter stalker. Anyway, I wanted to use this day to thank you for so many things, but most importantly hot sexy growly men. Just kidding, you have done more for me than just tease me incessantly with thoughts of a hot sexy, tattooed, geeky, boxer wearing, Andrew. How do I love the super ninja writing duo of Moira Rogers? Let me count the ways….
First, you popped my small publisher cherry. Hard to believe but before your books, I had never purchased from Fictionwise or MyBooksandMore. I was a big five, popular author, Amazon book buyer. It was with both great trepidation and a little hope that I clicked “buy” on Crux after seeing book bloggers raving about it. With that one click, my book buying world opened and expanded. Your writing and your stories are intelligently written and expertly plotted. You gave me confidence in smaller publishers and taught me that sometimes you have to just take a chance on a name you don’t recognize.
The second reason why I love you more than Nutella on pita bread? You take two genres that I love, throw them in a blender and out pops something magical. Well I am sure it doesn’t just pop out for you guys… probably more work than that. When I pick up a Moira Rogers book I don’t have to choose between great story, plot, and characters or great romance and sex scenes. You prove that its possible to seamlessly merge urban fantasy with paranormal romance without sacrificing quality, and you do it with style. I will go so far as to say you are Romantic Urban Fantasy Ninjas and because of it you have your own genre category here at KindleVixen. If only I had Keith Melton‘s paint skillz right now….oh wait….
Lastly Bree and Donna (and yes I realize this letter is bordering on crazy stalker length and you may block me for your own safety), you two write heroes as if you live inside my head. The men in your books are strong, dominant, alphas with attitude. They growl, swear, brood, and are totally dirty in all the right ways. Yet, they are never “standard man candy” and you write them in such a way I never feel like less of a strong, empowered woman for enjoying them. You aren’t afraid to flip off annoying romance rules and stereotypes, giving your characters a sense of realism and relatability.
For all of these reasons and more (I mean really… I could go on), I want to say thank you Moira Rogers. Thank you for being my gateway drug into a world of truly great authors, for not making me choose between urban fantasy and romance, and for giving me hot men to lust after. You have forever influenced my reading habits and are never too busy to let me harass you with useless drivel on twitter. Between your writing, well thought out (and useful!) website, and friendly twitter presence you are an example to authors everywhere.
Sincerely Yours (and Andrew’s),
TiffanyP.S. Don’t be alarmed if books start showing up at your house asking for your signatures on them…. they are just for my personal shrine. Feel free to pop beta copies of book 3 and 4 in the return box.
P.P.S. You know my email address if you would like to shed some more light on Andrew’s tattoos, geekiness, or body parts (if ya know what i mean).
You can get a complete list of the blogs participating here. Check out tomorrows Fan Letter over at Moonlight to Twilight.
Fan Letter to an Author Blog Crawl
A couple of super cool bloggers came up with the fabulous idea to give back to our favorite authors by writing fan letters to them and posting to our blog. I have found and loved so many new authors this years, I wanted to take part. There are 30 of us bloggers doing this crawl – so one letter a day.
My day to post is May 27th, but make sure you check out the letters daily! You can get a complete list of the blogs participating here and Katiebabs posted the schedule here. Each day the blogger posting will tag the following day’s blogger…. besides learning about some really awesome authors I see myself finding some cool new bloggers to add to my g-reader through this exercise!
To kick off the crawl, check out Kassa from 3am today.
Author Guest Post: Shiloh Walker
Please welcome author Shiloh Walker to KindleVixen.com! You can check out my review of her new release Broken here.
A little of this, a little of that…
Was bopping around the blogs that had some review posted for the ARCs of BROKEN-one of the comments I saw was in regards to the commenter thought BROKEN was paranormal.
I get that a lot-people thinking most of my stuff is paranormal.
Eh, about…a little over half.
Maybe a little more.
But I’ve got a fairly decent amount of work that’s not paranormal. Because I get bored easy. I can’t just do paranormal, just like I can’t just do contemporary, and I can’t just do straight erotic romance, and I get bored if I just write Hunter books and I get bored if I just write vamp books.
I suspect I’ve probably got ADD. Put something shiny in front of me and my attention is gone…that’s what subgenres in romance are to me. Shiny objects and I can only focus on one shiny object for so long before it’s no longer shiny any more. Take it away from me for a while and then give it back to me in a couple of months, a couple of weeks? Even a day, and it’s shiny again. I swear, I’m like a baby with a toy-take it away for a few hours and give it back and it’s like you’ve bought me something brand new.
But this is why I write kind of allllll over the place.
It’s also the reason I don’t just focus on vampires with paranormal, or just with werewolves, or witches…or…hmmm. What was I talking about again?
For me, the more variety I have, the easier it is for me to focus, the easier it is for me to keep my stories fresh and the easier it is for me to keep writing.
So I’m not just paranormal, although there’s definitely plenty of that. Just not this time around…
This time? It’s romantic suspense….BROKEN
Quinn Rafferty is working as a bounty hunter and bail bondsman in St. Louis when a new neighbor catches his eye. He’s tempted by her beauty—but he knows from experience that anyone desperate enough to live in his building is damaged goods. Besides, he has his own soul to mend before he can worry about anyone else.
Sara Davis is on the run, but not for the usual reasons a woman goes on the lam. She’s not an abused wife, and she’s not a criminal. But she does have a plan for her future. And as much as she finds herself attracted to her gruff, tough neighbor, she can’t risk telling him the secrets she’s hiding. There’s just too much at stake.
But Quinn must get closer to Sara when she turns out to be the target of his new missing persons case, and he discovers that there is something more complex and dangerous to her than he thought. Now, both Quinn and Sara will have to expose their true feelings—as well as their fragile hearts—if they hope their love will survive…
If you’d like to read more about my work, you can read an excerpt of BROKEN here at my site…and right now, if you buy BROKEN during release week, you can be entered to win a NOOK, the new ebook reader from Barnes and Noble.
Shiloh Walker
http://shilohwalker.com
http://shilohwalker.wordpress.com
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