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Wishes & Dreams, Book 3
Paranormal Romance Date Published: March 4, 2021
All 3 Books in the Series are only $.99 Until March 10th. Get Your Copy While They Are On Sale!!! Meet Troy's new roommate... She was charming.... inquisitive... demanding... even occasionally bad-tempered. But he loved her anyway. After all, she was just a cat ...wasn't she? A Cat for Troy is a fun paranormal romance novel with a happy ever after and lots of Cattitude! Veterinarian Troy Shelton has no idea what he's letting himself in for when he rescues a friend's cat from the shelter after a dog attack. The friendly but demanding calico soon has Troy and his pregnant collie wrapped around her furry paw. But strange things begin happening in Troy's home when he’s away, and he could almost think someone else was living there besides him. Torn and hurting, Katerina appreciates Troy's gentle care. She also appreciates his strong form and handsome face as much as the way he cuddles her. She's trapped in her cat form until her wounds heal, but once she's well again she finds herself oddly reluctant to resume her human form and life away from Troy. But someone else is interested in Troy, and that someone else has already tried to kill Cat once.
Other Books in the Wishes & Dreams series:
Wishes in a Bottle
Wishes & Dreams, Book 1 Published: January 2019 Three wishes... of the right kind... could free Julian of his bonds. Centuries ago in plague-struck Italy, Julian DiConti cast a powerful spell in desperation to have the magical power to be able to help his people who were dying in horrific conditions. The spell goes spectacularly awry, leaving Julian enslaved to a Djinn bottle, bound to grant three wishes to each Master of the bottle until the spell can be broken. More than anything, Julian longs for a normal life – for a home, and a family. After six hundred years, however, he has begun to despair of ever being freed from the spell. Enter Alessandra Taylor, a young woman who has followed her calling to help others, in the face of vociferous disapproval from her family, particularly her controlling father. Working at a shelter for battered women, she's thrilled to meet the reclusive Julian DiConti, whose collection of garments from third world countries has provided funding for shelters across the country. When Julian turns out to be a Djinn from the old bottle she found in her attic, she hears his story and empathizes with his despair. Although she's willing to free him, he can't tell her how. As time goes by, their initial attraction blossoms into a love that both realize is doomed. Once she has made her third wish, the magic of the bottle will whisk Julian away and out of her life forever... unless she can somehow figure out how to free him. But one by one, she's forced to use the precious wishes to help others.
A Gift of Jacinth
Wishes & Dreams, Book 2 Published: June 2019 Douglas needed a miracle. What he got was a genie... A Gift of Jacinth is a charming, playful paranormal romance novel with a happy ever after and no cliffhanger. Veterinarian Douglas McCandliss considered himself an ordinary kinda guy with an ordinary kinda life. He had no idea why he'd bought the old silver teapot, and when a young woman appeared before him claiming to be a genie, he almost wished he hadn't. If only she wasn't so damned cute. Ebullient and cheerful, Jacinth loved granting wishes and helping people. So she was thrilled when her teapot's new owner, a single father with custody of two young children, asked her to stay until he could find a nanny. The problem was, the longer she stayed, the more she was attracted to Douglas, and she was certainly not willing to turn over care of Ben and little Molly to just anybody. But she was a 900 year old genie, and had no intention of falling in love with a mortal man. None whatsoever.
About The Author
A former career medical transcriptionist and disabled Veteran, Allie McCormack is now writing from home full-time. Allie has traveled quite a bit and lived many places all over the U.S., and also a year in Cairo, Egypt as an exchange student, and a year in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia under contract to a hospital there, plus a short stint with NATO while she was in the Army. Allie now lives in the beautiful southern California with her family and her two rescue cats. Allie says: "A writer is who and what I am... a romance writer. I write what I know, and what I know is romance. Dozens of story lines and literally hundreds of characters live and breathe within the not-so-narrow confines of my imagination, and it is my joy and privilege to bring them to life, to share them with others by writing their stories." Contact Links Purchase Link
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 1) Why write horror? As much as I wanted to get away from horror (it’s my mother’s love) I found myself dreaming up characters with their toes dipped in darkness. While I love to be more fantasy based, horror, in a strange way, is part of my home. 2) Tell us about your writing style - is it gore, psychological etc? My writing is much more character driven and psychological. My book, Last stop is about a woman who sees lost spirits and has to usher them to the afterlife. It deals with her struggles to accept her new role in life as well as the traumas felt after having a few wayward ghosts attack her mind. I love the journey of the character, of how they find a way to overcome the darkness. 3) Who is your favorite woman in horror author? L.A Banks is my all time favorite. Her work was so inspiring to me and a lot of readers have said that my work reminds them of hers. Which is a huge compliment to me! 4) Who is your favorite scream queen? I would have to say Lili Taylor. Something about the way she embodies her characters is so impressive. I still have random chills from her performance in The Haunting! 5) What's next for you? I’m returning to Vampires! I’ve missed writing them and I have a much darker story line in mind. I’m excited to go back to my roots! I do have several projects releasing in 2021 including The Rise of the Elites and Fairy tales of the FYP. Will also be continuing my Djinn Rebellion series. Bio
Jessica Cage is an International Award Winning, and USA Today Best Selling Author. Born and raised in Chicago, IL, writing has always been a passion for her. As a girl, Jessica enjoyed reading tales of fantasy and mystery but she always hoped to find characters that looked like her. Those characters came few and far in between. When they did appear they often played a minor role and were background figures. This is the inspiration for her writing today and the reason why she focuses on writing Characters of Color in Fantasy. Representation matters in all mediums and Jessica is determined to give the young girl who looks like her, a story full of characters that she can relate to.  For me, my favorite types of horror movies are the B movies. I feel that they focus more on character development and the story as opposed to scare tactics, making it so we actually care about the characters and want them to survive. Too many movies nowadays have cardboard characters who are killed off quickly and the audience doesn't care.
B movies don't get enough credit, although they do sometimes become cult hits. Evil Dead is considered a B horror movie and it got a revival as a TV show recently and movies like Fright Night got remakes. The monsters may be crappy looking or the CGI leaves a lot to be desired, but they make up for it in fun, clever one liners and excellent story telling. My favorite B movies have to be Tremors, The Blob and Vamp. I think they are all good examples of great characters and are very entertaining. I also, because this is a Women in Horror event, like the fact that the women in B movies are perfectly capable of taking care of themselves and make excellent Final Girls. What are your favorite B horror movies?  1) Drew Barrymore in Scream
2) Grace Kelly in Rear Window 3) Janet Leigh in Psycho 4) Sarah Paulson in AHS 5) Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween Who is your favorite Scream Queen?  1) Why write horror?
I grew up on Lovecraft and Poe and am obsessed with horror in all forms, short stories, novels, films, prose. Writing was just an extension of this...and it's tremendous fun. 2) Tell us about your writing style - is it gore, psychological etc? I'm rather greedy, I write in a few sub-genres - ghost stories, psychological horror, gothic, contemporary, humorous. 3) Who is your favorite woman in horror author? Shirley Jackson, Joyce Carol Oates, Anne Rice are some of my favourite writers of horror. 4) Who is your favorite scream queen? Laurie Strode is my Scream Queen, terrified in Halloween and then a much stronger, determined protagonist in the later versions. 5) What's next for you? I'm finishing the first draft of a psychological horror and collating a collection of horror shorts. 1) Why write horror?
I don’t think I made it a conscious decision. I fell in love with the macabre when I was a toddler, watching old Scooby Doo episodes on Cartoon Network. I recall the Chicago suburb I lived in had a ton of bats that we’d often see at sunset, and a coven of “vampires” (I wrote them into my novel Stake-Out, as a matter of fact). I fell in love with all things creepy and dark, and always have been, from music to TV and especially books. My mother bought me a collection of Poe’s work when I was 8, and it got me started down the horror rabbit hole. With horror, it can be combined with many genres (I like to combine it with high and urban fantasy). It’s not a one trick pony genre. It can even be added to romance (my pen name’s The Vampire Mistress, for example). Fear is a visceral emotion, and from birth, we have the capability to feel it. Sure, doesn’t a newborn baby immediately feel the fear of the unknown the moment it’s ejected from the warm, familiar comfort of the womb? Fear is universal, it is beautiful, it is eternal. 2) Tell us about your writing style - is it gore, psychological etc? I like a little bit of all of it, and I like to combine them. Gore is fun. You can often find me gleefully grinning as I peel the flesh from a hapless victim or gut someone and describe the way their intestines squirm and dance once free from their prison of flesh and bone. Gore is gross, it is violent, and it has a place and time. Psychological is more difficult, and I delved into mixing it with gore in my novel Never Again. The MC, Sean, suffers PTSD from being captured during WWII and held prisoner and, yes, tortured. I suffer from multiple psychological disorders: generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety, chronic depression, insomnia, night terrors, PTSD, and am on the spectrum. When one’s body is betrayed by their brain, it can be alarming in an indescribable way. I try to describe that feeling, and make my readers feel it, too. 3) Who is your favorite woman in horror author? Of course Anne Rice and Shirley Jackson are up there, as is Anne Bronte. But I think Mary Shelley would have to take the top spot for her sci-fi twists and deeply psychological plot. Honorable mentions (because I read them when they still identified as female) are Z Brewer and Poppy Z Brite. 4) Who is your favorite scream queen? Unpopular opinion, but as a modern scream queen, I find Chloe Grace Moretz fantastic. I prefer the 60s horror mavens, such as Caroline Munro and Veronica Carlson. I adore black and white horror, as well as the 70s Hammer films (Christopher Lee was the man). They had beauty and grace few can emulate. 5) What's next for you? On March 20th I release a boxed set I compiled called Just A Little Wicked, which will feature my YA historical fantasy novella Morgana’s Revenge, featuring some impalings, stabbings, a memorable electrocution, and the encroaching fear of being hunted for no reason other than the fact that you exist. Over the summer I will enter a new genre: cozy mysteries, with the launch of the Paige Papillon Paranormal Mysteries Series, and have a YA horror novella called Dead Memories included in the boxed set Summer Bites. Dead Memories follows my Paranormal Detectives MC Angelica Cross when she’s sixteen years old, as she attends paranormal summer camp to socialize with the children of other supernatural dignitaries from around the world. While there, camp counselors and campers alike are brutalized by a mysterious creature, and she must figure out who or what it is and stop it. Finally, on Halloween, I will release Make Me Bad, a psychological, sci-fi horror novel about a half vampire and the insane mortal sect that seeks to use him as a test dummy for disease, torture, and much more.  I have been a fan of horror for years and I will share what I think makes a great female lead in a horror movie or book.
1) Why write horror?
My addiction to horror started when I was twelve or thirteen years old. By that time I was already head over heels in love with reading. But someone from school lend me their mother’s copy of Stephen King’s IT. I read this with a flashlight under the blankets at night. And that’s how it all started. 2) Tell us about your writing style - is it gore, psychological etc? I do write both. My first horror book has a scene in that made some readers complain that there was no trigger warning. But the rest is psychological horror. Even my sci-fi series contains elements of both. I think women are experts at psychological fear because of the world we live in. We have a natural ability to write it well because we experience it so often in the real world. 3) Who is your favorite woman in horror author? Anne Rice is my favorite of all time. She is a master at world-building, and using mythology in her books. This is something that I love. Shirley Jackson is a close second because of the way she finds the horror in everyday situations. Last year I delved into gothic classics and fell completely in love with Daphne du Maurier, Ann Radcliff and Mary Shelley’s work. Others I have enjoyed is JF Penn (Joanna Penn) and Sian Claven. 4) Who is your favorite scream queen? Jamie Lee Curtis birthed this term, of course. She will always be the first name that jumps to mind when you hear the term, but my personal favorite is Sigourney Weaver. I fell in love with her in the ALIEN franchise where she was part hero and part final girl. She has a gift to play the damsel in distress, but able and willing to fight her way out if she needed too. Other movies I loved her in: GHOSTBUSTERS, COPYCAT, SNOW WHITE: TALE OF TERROR. RED LIGHTS, DEATH AND THE MAIDEN. "There is no Dana, only Zuullllllll!" 5) What's next for you? I am currently finishing THE RIVER, book #2 in my horror trilogy THOMPSONVILLE. I dedicated most of early January to rewriting #1, THE WOODS. This is also the first of my writing that I’m translating into my native tongue, which is Afrikaans. After this I am editing and translating two Paranormal romances in my DARLING’S DAUGHTERS series. I wrote these last year, and will also translate them into Afrikaans. This is a shapeshifter thriller series set in a real town in South Africa.  1) Why write horror?
I was introduced to horror at a young age. It started with the old black and white hammer horror movies like The Mummy and Frankenstein and quickly moved to movies like An American Werewolf in London and Alien. My favourite shows were The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits, probably why my stories nearly always have twists at the end. When I was twelve or thirteen my brother gave me a Stephen King book to read, I became addicted and didn’t stop reading all his books. 2) Tell us about your writing style - is it gore, psychological, etc? I write many subgenres of horror like sci-fi, paranormal, occult, and comedy. However, I really enjoy extreme horror and these are my most popular stories. I like to push the boundaries a little and chuffed when the reviews come in from readers. I tend to focus on the stories and action rather than the characters. To me, too much character development can be boring. Yes, you have to know what drives them, who they were, etc, but if it doesn’t help with the plot, what’s the point, right? 3) Who is your favourite woman in horror author? I have a few with the obvious classics like Shirley Jackson and Mary Shelley. I prefer the indie authors of today e.g. Lee Franklin and Sea Caummisar...gore is good. 4) Who is your favourite scream queen? It has to be Jamie Lee Curtis. She doesn’t just sit there, scream, and get killed, she attacks too. Her role in the latest Halloween movie was awesome, she was a total badass. 5) What’s next for you? I have so many stories in my head (some being sequels), I don’t know what to do. I’ll probably focus on my third in my Celtic Curse stories - The Púca (or Pooka in English). It’ll be a while though, with work and family, I don’t get much time to write. |
 
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