Free Read & Best Contemporary Fiction Finalist

I don't post on a weekend very often. But I have reason to celebrate, and not just because its my birthday today.

My first novel, Tainted Love has been nominated as a finalist for Best Contemporary Fiction in Orangeberry Book Tour's Hall of Fame, by members of the Quality Reads UK Book Club.

I'm thrilled to pieces with this nomination.

The Winner is chosen by you, so if you've read Tainted Love, could you be a darling and pop on over to Orangeberry's website and show Tainted Love some loving. If you haven't you can grab a copy for Kindle, and its Free today and tomorrow. (1st - 4th August 2013) Grab a copy at Amazon US & Amazon UK.

Spotlight on Secret Sister by Emelle Gamble (@EmelleGamble) (& @GoddessFish Promotions)

Today on Beyond My Writing Space, I feature Emelle Gamble's Secret sister.

There's an opportunity to enter the giveaway for a $100 amazon giftcard and a further opportunity to win Cathy Chance's earring over at Emelle's website. See below for more details.

The Deets ....

To their friends, Nick and Cathy Chance have the perfect marriage. High school sweethearts who’ve been together for ten years, they’ve weathered challenges and are as committed as they were when they first fell in love. Cathy trusts Nick, Nick’s world revolves around his wife, and the future looks golden.

To everyone who knows them, Cathy Chance and Roxanne Ruiz have a perfect friendship. They connected in grade school and since then have been each other’s confident and trusted advisor. Cathy loves the gorgeous Roxanne like a sister, Roxanne has fun-loving Cathy’s back in every situation, though lately there’s been tension between these two best friends…

And then, on a sunny summer morning, the unthinkable occurs, throwing into doubt the truth of what each of these people really know about themselves and one another.

Will Roxanne’s sacrifice be too little, and too late? Should Nick’s love for his wife be strong enough to risk trusting his heart more than logic? Can Cathy’s devotion to Nick give her enough strength to convince him to see her for who she really is?

 

Secret Sister proves how strong, how stubborn, and how trustworthy love can be as Nick and Cathy and Roxanne are challenged to overcome the secrets, the lies … and one extraordinary twist of fate that turns their lives upside down.

Sneak Peek inside the pages ....

When I ‘woke up,’ strange words to use after being unconscious for what was surely days, not hours, I felt remarkably lucid. Which is to say, I opened my eyes and saw and understood that I was in a hospital bed, there were nurses working in the area outside my glassed-in room, and I was hooked to an I.V. and some other kind of machine.

I didn’t know the story of how I got here, but assumed it was bad. I remembered hearing, somewhere, that I had been in a terrible car accident, but I was blank to any other details.

For instance, I didn’t know my name. I examined the contents of my brain and started a list of unknown things. Where was I? No clue. What day was it? I looked outside and saw blue sky. Zero. I was blank to the most basic of information.

My chest tightened and a roar began in my head. Don’t panic. I gulped air, blinked; fought to stay awake.

 “Roxanne. Roxanne Ruiz. Do you know where you are?”

I didn’t recognize that name. In my brain I saw a face. A kind face, smiling. A great looking guy with strong arms and blue eyes.

But I had no idea who he was either …

Buy Secret Sister at Amazon

The Give Away 

Emelle will be awarding a $100 Amazon gift card to a randomly drawn commenter during her tours. Follow them here.

The more  you comment the more chances you have to win.

Who is Emelle Gamble?

Emelle Gamble was a writer at an early age, bursting with the requisite childhood stories of introspection which evolved into bad teen poetry and took her first stab at full length fiction in an adult education writing class when her kids were in bed. As M.L. Gamble, she published several romantic suspense novels with Harlequin. She has contracted with Soul Mate Publishing for Secret Sister, summer of 2013, and Dating Cary Grant, an early 2014 release.

Always intrigued by the words ‘what if’, Emelle’s books feature an ordinary woman confronted with an extraordinary situation.  She most enjoys reading stories that surprise and amaze her, and hopes her readers will enjoy the challenging and exciting journeys her characters take. 

Emelle lives in suburban Washington D.C.  with her husband, Phil, her hero of thirty years,  and two orange cats, Lucy and Bella. These girls, like all good villains, have their reasons for misbehaving. Her daughter, Olivia, and son, Allen, are happily launched on their own and contributing great things to society, their mother’s fondest wish.

Email: emellegamble@aol.com

Website:  www.EmelleGamble.com 

 "Win Cathy Chance's earrings"  Emelle is having a giveaway on her website for a pair of custom made turquoise earrings.

FaceBook:  Author Emelle Gamble

Twitter: @EmelleGamble

Erin


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A Little Barrel on Legs

I don't often get the time to sit down and write a post these days. I'm usually so busy writing, reading, working, studying that I don't get time to let you all in on my deepest thoughts.Today is different. Today, I wanted to share with you my lovely little puddy tat. Sasha. 

I took this photograph just a few weeks ago. My lovely other half had gone to visit his mum for the weekend and after working for six hours, I was in the home office and editing Behind Closed Doors when Sasha decided she was going to be quite happy sitting on my knee as I worked. It was so hot in the office I was surprised she stayed there. But she did and I, well, I didn't feel quite so alone. 

Believe it or not, Sasha's almost fifteen years old, blessed with the youthful look of a kitten (LOL) and a healthy appetite. So small, and rounded, she's often referred to a little barrel on legs or sometimes stumpy. So small, I didn't think she could get up on the kitchen unit. We've been living in This house for ten years and I've never caught her up there once until only a few weeks ago, she managed to get some meat off the counter while I wasn't looking. In fact, there was this one time, just after we'd moved in, when she jumped out of our bedroom window on to the roof of the bay window and couldn't get back up. It led to me dangling head first out of the window to grab her and bring her back inside. Daft cat!

She was healthy and happy and incredibly stubborn. She refused to drink out of a water bowl until less absolutely necessary, preferring the pre-run water from the bathroom tap. When she started to get too old to jump in and out of the bath we put a water bowl in from of it. We frequently had to refill it for her. :) and in the winter she'd snuggle up under the duvet with us or on long sleepless nights she'd lie beside me and I'd fall asleep to her gentle purring. 

Fast forward to this week and my little barrel on legs had been off her food for almost a week, not eating one thing but something else, then not eat that but a third, she wouldn't drink from the bowl and I had to put her in the bath to drink, and finally she began struggling with the stairs. Then two days ago she just wouldn't do anything at all. I think you know what I'm going to say and it was for the best. There was a lump in her stomach and arthritis in her back legs and the weight she'd lost over the last week or so ... I didn't want her in anymore pain. 

So I'm now sat imagining both Kiara and Sasha making more noise than a heard of elephants as they run up and down the heavenly staircases in the middle of the night.