Friday 31 August 2012

Meet Kemberlee Shortland

KEMBERLEE SHORTLAND is a native Northern Californian who was raised in a community known as Steinbeck Country, home to author John Steinbeck, as well as Jack London, Robert Louis Stevenson and others. With so much literary influence around her, it's not hard to see why Kemberlee fell in love with the printed word.

Sarah's Secret, Kemberlee's first novel, was the result of years of short story writing. It was completed, though unpublished, in 1989, several other novels following as she learned the craft of writing and developing her voice.

Kemberlee began her professional writing career as a reviewer in 1995, publishing reviews with Compuserve Romance Reviews then What I'm Reading. She was a co-founder and charter member of RIO (Reviewers International Organization), chaired the RIO Award of Excellence awards, headed up the RIO newsletter and served two terms as RIO President. And she's published travel articles since 1998.

It was in 1997 while employed by Clint Eastwood that Kemberlee couldn't pass up the opportunity to spend six month in Ireland. While in Ireland, she met a man who eventually became her husband. Upon permanently relocating to Ireland, Kemberlee established an Irish travel consultancy and built a reputation as one of Ireland's foremost Irish travel experts.

Living in Ireland has allowed Kemberlee to study the country's torrid past and unique culture first hand, and has even picked up a cúpla focal . . . a few Irish words.

Because of her knowledge of Ireland, Kemberlee has had the privilege of working as researcher and editor with some of the romance industry's top authors who have set their stories in Ireland.

In 2005. Kemberlee was invited to submit her short stories for a charity anthology which was released in 2006. Those stories included Tutti-Frutti Blues (2006 RIO Award of Excellence Honorary Mention) and Dude Looks Like A Lady, both set in Kemberlee's hometown of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. These stories were rewritten and published by Tirgearr Publishing in January of this year. Both stories are also part of the Carmel Charmers Series.

Kemberlee's love of Ireland has inspired a number of Irish set stories, including the short stories Moondance (2006 PEARL nominee) and The Power of Love.

In 2010, Kemberlee saw the publication of her first novel-length book, A Piece of My Heart, part of the Irish Pride Series. This book earned Kemberlee the Coffee Time Romance Award. Constant Craving is the short story sequel to A Piece of My Heart, published with Tirgearr Publishing August 2010.

Rhythm of My Heart was published in July of this year, a long-awaited addition to the Irish Pride Series.

Shape of My Heart is the final book in the Irish Pride series and due for publication in Autumn 2013, also by Tirgearr Publishing.

~~} To recognize the 2012 Blue Moon, which takes place tonight (31 August 2012) around the world (a blue moon being the second full moon in one calendar month), Tirgearr Publishing is proud to announce the release of a totally rewritten and lengthened version of Kemberlee's 2006 PEARL nominated story, MOONDANCE. This book is being offered for FREE through Monday 3 September!!

MOONDANCE 
 
Blánaid thinks there's something wrong with her. It's been months since she's dated, and even if she makes the first move to invite a man out, it seems he can't run away from her fast enough. If it weren't for her best friends, Ronan and Siobhan, Blánaid is sure she'd go crazy with loneliness and despair. Then, one night while watching the sunset, Ronan kisses her and suddenly, the world as Blánaid knows it is thrown into turmoil. She turns to Siobhan for advice and a shoulder to cry on.

Can Blánaid face the truth in Siobhan's words?

The instant his lips touched Blánaid's, Ronan was sure he'd found Heaven. Ever since meeting her, he tried to find a way to tell her how he felt about her. When he overheard her telling Siobhan she never dated the friends they hung out with, he kept his feelings to himself- until this night when everything seemed so right. And he thought she felt the same when she returned his kiss. But when she realized what was happening, she ran from him. Ronan was sure he'd scared her off forever.

Can Ronan settle for just being Blánaid's friend?


RHYTHM OF MY HEART 

Artist Representative, Eilis Kennedy, gave up a singing career so that other women could have a fair chance at having their music heard. Having suffered rejection from callous men in the industry, she thought she would get away from ‘casting couch’ mentality. But when she finds herself in the office of Fergus Manley, all bets are off. Disgusted by his continual come-ons and lewd invitations, Eilis is looking for ‘the one’ who will take her career to the next level, getting out from under Fergus’s controlling thumb.

Aspiring blues guitarist, Kieran Vaughan, is looking for his big break. But after suffering near bankruptcy at the hands of an unscrupulous business partner, Kieran is left picking up the pieces. He’s unsure if the debts will ever be paid or if he’ll ever have a chance to do something with his music. At his whit’s end, he’s about ready to throw in the towel and find a full-time job with real hours.

When Eilis discovers Kieran playing in a seedy pub in Dublin’s Northside, she knows he’s the one rare talent she’s been searching for. With her know-how and his talent, Eilis will finally get everything she’s been waiting for. Neither of them count on the powerful attraction from first meeting. Eilis is so rocked by Keiran’s forthright words that it sends her running. Kieran risks being arrested as he chases Eilis across Ireland.

Seeing what’s happening between Eilis and Kieran, anger wells inside Fergus and he steps up his pursuit of Eilis. Refusing to let Kieran get in his way, Fergus vows to add Eilis’s notch to his bedpost, whatever it takes.

Will Kieran be able to protect her?

THE CARMEL CHARMER SERIES

From Tutti-Frutti Blues
Town therapist Maisie Daniels is having a bad day. A failed alarm clock makes her late for work, she's locked herself out of her house and worse, she's half way across town when she realizes she's wearing her bunny slippers. A double scoop of tutti-frutti ice cream is just the ticket to boost her mood.

When Sergeant Jake Hennessey spots a woman in bunny slippers muttering to herself in the park, he wonders if she's one of the local eccentrics. When she steps from the ice cream parlor with her double dip in hand, Jake decides not to cite her for eating ice cream on the street, a recent ban, but invites her to dinner instead.

When Jake arrives at the restaurant and sees Maisie in her bunny slippers, he knows instantly that he could love her.

From Dude Looks Like a Lady
Pamela Howard can't believe what she let her friend Maisie talk her into - a charity costume contest where she's made to dress as King Louis XVI. Her partner, dressed as Queen Marie Antoinette, reminds her of a man she's spent five long years trying to forget.

Hank Delacroix is ready to throttle his friend Jake. Hank is a great clown around his 49er teammates, but six-inch heels and a poodle on his head are a bit much. He has to be the tallest drag queen in the state. When he meets his Louis partner, he can't keep memories of the only woman he ever loved from waking in his mind.

When Hank realizes Louis is his ex-fiance, he has to find a way to make her stop running away from him so he can finally apologize.


We invite you to bookmark Kemberlee's page on our website so you can follow her work and future releases with Tirgearr Publishing.

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COMPETITION --

Kemberlee loves hearing from her readers. Please drop a comment here for Kemberlee and one lucky random winner will receive a copy of her book, Rhythm of My Heart!




Wednesday 29 August 2012

6 MONTH ANNIVERSARY SALE!!!

6 MONTH ANNIVERSARY SALE
ALL TITLES 50% OFF!!
** ONE-DAY ONLY -- 29 August **
(extended through the 30th) 

Tirgearr Publishing wants to say a big THANK YOU for making our first six months such a huge success.
To celebrate, we've slashed all of our titles in half for one-day only!


All titles available for all ereader formats through Kindle and Smashwords. Links on each book's page.
Prices at Kindle and Smashwords reflect the sale price

What are you waiting for? Click onto any of our books for more information, including excerpts and buy links


Retail $1.99, today only . . . 99c each! That's as good as 2-for-1 :-)



Retail $3.99, today only . . .$1.99!



 
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Retail $5.99, today only . . .$2.99!
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 99c!

Retail $1.99, today only . . . 99c! That's as good as 2-for-1 :-)
 Retail $2.99, today only . . .$1.49!
This collection includes Tutti-Frutti Blues and Dude Looks Like A Lady so you save even more by buying this collection.
Retail $2.99, today only . . .$1.49!
Retail $4.99, today only . . .$2.49!


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Happy reading and
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!!

Tuesday 28 August 2012

Meet Scarlett Valentine

SCARLETT VALENTINE was born and raised in Northern California in an area known as America's Salad Bowl. It was home to many authors, including John Steinbeck, and for a while Jack London and Robert Louis Stevenson.

In 1997, Scarlett had the opportunity to travel to Ireland on an extended holiday. She met a man and stayed. Celebrating more than fifteen years in Ireland, she has traveled the country extensively and has lived in Dublin, Cork, Wicklow and Kildare, and loving every minute of it.

Scarlett has always enjoyed writing. Her professional writing life began as a book reviewer in 1995 and has published travel articles since 1998.

She's an avid castle hunter and photographer so it's no wonder castles show up in a lot of her stories. She loves travel and research, both of which give Scarlett ideas for her stories.

If all this sounds familiar, it's because Scarlett is the erotica alter ego of traditional romance novelist, Kemberlee Shortland.

Tirgearr Publishing is the proud home of Scarlett's unique erotica series, The ABCs of S-E-X: Love by the Letter. Her first title, Awakening, was released October 2011 (Night Owl Reviews Top Pick Award).

Check out Scarlett's website to learn more about this series.

AWAKENING, book one, The ABCs of S-E-X: Love by the Letter

Ysbail of Ellesmere is a pawn in her guardian's war. For decades there has been unrest between the marcher lords and Owain Gwynedd ap Gruffydd, King of Gwynedd. The most recent war had been the bloodiest she could remember in her eighteen years. Madog ap Maredudd, Prince of Powys, and his allies lost untold numbers of men at the hands of Owain's soldiers. When a settlement of truce is presented to Madog, it's at Ysbail's expense. She is to marry Bedwyr ap Owain, one of King Owain’s bastard sons, and his most notorious henchman. If all the rumors and stories she's heard are true, she knows her marriage will be rife with horror and fear.

Since proving himself worthy with his sword, Bedwyr fights at his king's side. He's shed oceans of blood and sent untold numbers of men to their graves. He's become what his name foretold—the grave-knower. He's afraid of nothing, least of all death. All men fear him, including those who fight at his side, and sometimes even his own king. Terror of him lives within women's hearts; only the bravest of whores accept him into their beds. And children weave their own tales of the monster they hear him to be, embellishing the details to their own gruesome degrees.

When King Owain informs Bedwyr that he's to marry Ysbail of Ellesmere as part of a peace settlement with Madog, Bedwyr is furious. A man such as Bedwyr can only survive on the battlefield. For without love, hatred will send a man like him to the edge of insanity. Then push him over. But when Bedwyr sees Ysbail for the first time, blood-thirst turns to blood-lust, and he vows to show her that she should have no fear of him.


We invite you to bookmark Scarlett's page on our website so you can follow her work and future releases with Tirgearr Publishing.

Find Scarlett online --

http://www.scarlett-valentine.com
http://www.facebook.com/scarlettvalentine
http://www.twitter.com/theabcsofsex


COMPETITION --

Scarlett loves hearing from her readers. Please drop a comment here for Scarlett and one lucky random winner will receive a copy of her book, Awakening!

ANNIVERSARY SALE --

This Wednesday, 29 August, we'll be hosting a one-day only 50% off sale on all of our current titles. Don't miss this event. Just log into our website and click the buy links on your favorite authors.


Monday 27 August 2012

Meet Stella Whitelaw

STELLA WHITELAW began writing seriously at the age of nine. She was ill with measles when her father gave her an Imperial Portable typewriter. Covered in spots, she sat up in bed and taught herself to type.

At sixteen, she became a cub reporter and worked her way up to Chief Reporter. She was the first woman Chief Reporter, the youngest, and the only one who was pregnant.

After producing a family, she became Secretary of the Parliamentary Press Gallery at the House of Commons. Secretary then meant the original meaning, Secretariat, the keeper of secrets. She was awarded an MBE in 2001 but is not sure why.

Like Trollope, she wrote books on the train and in the recesses. The Jordan Lacey PI series is her favourite and the cruise crime books. Her big romances, No Darker Heaven and Sweet Seduction, were a marathon adventure.

Stella has won a woman’s magazine national short story competition and the London Magazine’s Art of Writing competition judged by Sheridan Morley. The Elizabeth Goudge Cup was presented to her at Guildford University.

Homeless cats find their way to Stella’s lifelong hospitality and she has written eight books of cat stories for the 7 – 70 plus.

Stella is a prolific writer and has come to Tirgearr Publishing to help republish some of her favorite books digitally --

PRAY AND DIE (July 2012)

Someone has to investigate the sleepy streets of Latching, West Sussex – and that someone is Jordan Lacey, ex-policewoman, now advertising her services as a private investigator in the local paper and working out of a junk shop in the quiet part of town. Will there be enough crime in Latching to keep her in business? Errant husbands, runaway pets… it looks like there might be.

When Jordan discovers the body of a dead nun in an abandoned hotel, along with clues to a hidden WWII fortune, she realises she may have found more than she’d bargained for. Trouble is, she isn’t exactly popular with the local constabulary. So when her life appears to be in danger, the police – in the shape of the devastatingly attractive DI James – want more proof that she’s at risk than a slice of poisoned carrot cake sent to her by a “friend”. It will take an altogether more dramatic attempt on Jordan’s life to make DI James sit up and take notice.


NO DARKER HEAVEN (September 2012)

Lyssa Pasten is torn between loving two men -- Matthew Arnold, her new fiancé, and Jethro, Matthews often-absent father.

Lyssa and Jeth fight against their mutual attraction for Matthew's sake and the sake of her small daughter, Bethany, who has a very rare disorder called RAS (renal artery stenosis).

Hollow House, the Sussex family home, becomes the backdrop for drama and pain, passion and delight.

When Jeth suddenly goes missing, Lyssa knows she has to follow her heart and find him.



We invite you to bookmark Stella's page on our website so you can follow her work and future releases with Tirgearr Publishing.

Find Stella at her own website too.

COMPETITION --

Stella loves hearing from her readers. Please drop a comment here for Stella and one lucky random winner will receive a copy of her book, Pray and Die!

ANNIVERSARY SALE --

This Wednesday, 29 August, we'll be hosting a one-day only 50% off sale on all of our current titles. Don't miss this event. Just log into our website and click the buy links on your favorite authors.


Thursday 23 August 2012

Available Now - The Trouble with Cupcakes

THE TROUBLE WITH CUPCAKES
Kristi Ahlers
August 2012
ISBN: 9781476452685
ASIN: B00916VYJA

Buy --Kindle / Smashwords    $1.99

Heather Ryan is the proud owner of Cupcakes on Royal. It’s a thriving business, but if she wants to put her cupcakery on the map, she needs to win the coveted Krewe of Bacchus after-party contract. When she finds out who’s leading the Krewe, Heather realizes she’s about to get a second chance with her first true but unrequited love, Alec Carlisle.

Alex is a successful New Orleans lawyer. As the leader of the Krewe of Bacchus, it’s up to him to put together the top caterers from around the city to cater the Krewe’s Fat Tuesday event. He has few regrets in life, but missing a chance with a woman from long ago is one he plans on rectifying when he finds out Heather is the baker behind Cupcakes on Royal. It won’t be an easy task, there are a lot of years behind them, but Heather is worth fighting for. His ex, Lila, who’s also vying for the contract, has her eyes on winning the contract at all costs. She also makes it clear she wants Alec back.

Will Heather and Alec find forgiveness of the past and be able to get past Lila’s obstacles to find the sweet ending they both deserve?

Log into Kristi's page on Tirgearr Publishing for an excerpt.


Thursday 16 August 2012

Available Now - The Swan Prince

THE SWAN PRINCE
C. Margery Kempe
August 2012
ISBN: 9781476215815
ASIN: B008Y5J3GK

Buy --Kindle / Smashwords    $1.99


Magic happens when love is true 

Lena thought she'd found a prince when Charles rescued her four-year-old half-brother from the waters of the Serpentine. A simple boating accident sparks romance, but the man of her dreams seems to be hiding something. They're both unemployed — times are hard — but there's something else he's not telling her.

One night, Lena sneaks back into Hyde Park to find out if Charles is secretly camping in the park and gets the surprise of her life!

How far is Lena willing to go to rescue the man she's fallen for?


Log into C. Margery's page on Tirgearr Publishing for an excerpt.



Tuesday 7 August 2012

OPEN SUBMISSIONS FOR AUGUST

Open Submissions: 6 through 10 August

August submissions are now open and will run from today through Friday the 10th*.
*Please note that we operate under HAST time . . . meaning the last time zone, aka Honolulu time, or roughly noon GMT on Saturday. So, no matter where you are, you have until midnight HAST time to submit!

Please take a look at our Submission Guidelines and send us your best work.
** We're currently seeking novella and novel length works in all adult genres. Please, no YA or children's stories.

Here's the schedule for 2012 --

3 - 7 September
1 - 5 October
5 - 9 November
  Closed the month of December
* Please note that we will begin taking open submissions on a daily basis starting 7 January 2013.

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Coming Soon:

16 August -- The Swan Prince by C. Margery Kempe
23 August -- The Trouble with Cupcakes by Kristi Ahlers
6 September -- Moondance by Kemberlee Shortland
13 September - No Darker Heaven by Stella Whitelaw
27 September - The Ninja Tattoo by Dellani Oakes
4 October -- Unquiet Dreams by K.A. Laity
October -- Tender Touch by Charlene Raddon
November --  Shape of My Heart by Kemberlee Shortland
November -- Christmas Present by Isabo Kelly

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