Beaches, Backroads & Books

Author Savannah Young is here to share her Wilde Brother Series and serenade us with the music of singer/songwriter Dan Patrick Fulton, whose lyrics can be found in all the Wilde Brother books. Enjoy the following video from Dan Patrick Fulton and read on for more about WILDE RIDERS, including an excerpt...   WILDE RIDERS   FOUR WILDE BROTHERS...ONE WILDE COUNTRY BAND  WILDE RIDERS is the first novel in a spicy new contemporary romance series about four sexy brothers, their small-town bar and their local country band. WILDE RIDERS can be read as a STAND ALONE NOVEL or as part of the SERIES.  Cooper Wilde spent his entire adolescence counting the days until he could escape rural northwest New Jersey. Now at 26, he can't believe he's coming back. But his late father's bar, Haymakers, is in financial trouble and his older brother, Jake, has asked for Cooper's help.  Riley Smith, 25, is fresh out of her Ivy League MBA program and wants to mak...

Reading, Writing & Romance: Happy Release Day to Author Terry Rochenski and Lo... : Happy Book Birthday to Love's Sorrow! Today marks the kick-off of Love's Sorrow blog tour AND part one of ...  a ...

Reading, Writing & Romance: Happy Release Day to Author Terry Rochenski and Lo... : Happy Book Birthday to Love's Sorrow! Today marks the kick-off of Love's Sorrow blog tour AND part one of ...  a ...

Happy Book Birthday to Love's Sorrow! Today marks the kick-off of Love's Sorrow blog tour AND part one of ...  a sneak peak at the entire first chapter! Follow along during the tour for parts two through ten, and be sure to check out the rafflecopter below for some Love's Sorrow goodies! Love's Sorrow Means of Mercy #1 Historical Romance by Terri Rochenski Release Date: April 21, 2014 Publisher: Roane Publishing Hired as a nanny for her cousin’s children, Anne Tearle finds security and a loving family. The children are a dream, but London society is a world of its own, one where a displaced farm girl has no business being. But, wealthy rake, Gavin MacKay, helps her to see associating with the upper class might not be as horrid as she first assumed. Like all things worthwhile, love comes at a price, and the cost soon bestows more anguish than joy. Lost, but not undone, Anne must find the courage to begin...

Reading, Writing & Romance: Defining Romance with Suz DeMello : Suz DeMello, author of Rakes in Tartan , is here today defining romance and talking about how that definition has changed over the centurie...

Suz DeMello, author of Rakes in Tartan , is here today defining romance and talking about how that definition has changed over the centuries.  Welcome, Suz! ****** What’s a romance? You may think you know, but… The standard definition of a romance has been undergoing some change lately, but the definition of romance has always been changing. Right now, most of us see a romance as a love story between a man and a woman that contains a happy ending, with the heroine going off with Mr. Right. But that wasn’t always the case. Centuries ago, people married for reasons other than love. They married for money, status or property, and love was something found outside marriage. Romeo and Juliet is a pretty famous romance, but it doesn’t have a happy ending, unless your idea of a good HEA (Happily Ever After) is uniting in the afterlife. Other forms of art reflected the belief that love was found outside marriage. Medieval troubadours traveled from castle to castle...

My guest for today's Sunday Serenade is author Alana Lorens. She's here to share a bit about her novel, Second Chances, and Harry Connick, Jr.   ******* Harry Connick, Jr.—a music man to swoon for By Alana Lorens "Let's kick the tires and light the fires, big daddy!" I first became aware of Harry Connick, Jr. when I watched his performance in 1996’s Independence Day, when his character’s bravado helped launch his squadron into attack. Connick is beyond handsome, and I think I fell for him just a little watching him move about the screen. I knew he was a singer, but I hadn’t really listened to any of his work—he was simply beautiful to look at. Then when I visited New Orleans for Mardi Gras in 1998, I learned about a whole different side of him—a NOLA boy through and through, but a member of the new generation. He was one of the founders of the Krewe of Orpheus, one of the Mardi Gras’s SuperKrewes, and the first Krewe to allow both men and women...