Carmen DeSousa

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The Merry-Go-Round   ~ Romance Flaps Down  ~ Contemporary Romance Falling for Jack  ~ Sweet Romance Quintspinner  ~ Young Adult Adventure In The Beginning  ~ Alternative History Timelapse  ~ Time Travel Romance No More Mulberries  ~ Romantic Drama She Belongs to Me  ~ Romantic Suspense ~ FREE Thanks for stopping by, please visit my  bio  for more information about what I write and what I like to read and share.  Until next time, happy reading! Carmen DeSousa a Rafflecopter giveaway An InLinkz Link-up

Different men, different backgrounds, different lifestyles, all searching for the same thing. Of course ... when I say meet my men, I mean ... let me describe them to you.  I've always been adamant about not having men on my bookcovers . To me, the best thing about reading is that my imagination builds up in my mind what I believe the leading character looks like, and my image will always be different from the readers.  One of the reasons I believe movies fall short for avid readers. Yes, I do have a lot of male readers, but men are visual. LOL! Happy imagining , ladies!  All books are available at all retailers, but unless marked, because of space, I used Amazon links. Meet Derrick Ashton, doctor and hospital administrator, along with some hidden talents: Creatus (They Exist) The Prequel Excerpt: If Derrick had been her doctor, she never would have fussed about going. In fact, she probably would have made up excuses for regular examinations...

Yesterday I read a post on writing a great book… You know those posts... The type  that  attempt to teach you all the things we learned in Comp-1 about punctuation and sentence structure , and then the dynamics of writing a story that we learned in Comp-2, where we read all the great works of literature throughout the ages. Yep, that stuff. I’m sorry, but if you don’t know that you need to insert a comma before a direct address, no writing post on the World Wide Web is going to help you write a great book. Of course the post also included all the other stuff that ‘professionals’ throw at aspiring writers: Don’t use prologues Don’t use adverbs Never use a dialog tag other than  ‘ said ’ Never use ‘asked’ as a dialog tag Never use ‘had’ in non-dialog writing Don’t sigh  or huff your words Never write in first person Blah, blah, blah … So, being the curious author that I am, I decided to download samples of...

We all love excellence...we all love excellent books...some can even be called phenomenal books for one reason or another. It might be because of the story, a unique idea, the style, prose, descriptions or amazing and believable characters. For the weekend of the 12-14th July inclusive, Faith has selected a few books which all have that mark of excellence and which you might like to take a look at. All are priced very reasonably...often just a couple of dollars, (& many are reduced just for you - this long weekend only). We all know how long it takes to write a book...months, even years, so let's hear it for some phenomenal books then! By clicking on the book links below, more information will be given about the book and author. Let's make this a fantastic long weekend and get yourself a bargain fantastic book! Thanks for dropping by! AVAILABLE AS AN AUDIO AND ECOPY DERRICK   ~ Donna Fasano The Single Dad: Ex-military man Derrick Richmond. Solitary and satis...