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In Rick and Jane Learn To Listen & Talk The First Step To Intimacy , authors Al and Autumn Ray show us how important it is to communicate in our marriage and then they explain how to communicate clearly and effectively and, perhaps most importantly, how to communicate with respect . I am pretty sure that every couple in the world has had an issue with miscommunication at one time or another and ended up in yet another argument. Before reading this book I thought that my husband and I had pretty good communication in our marriage but after reading it I began to think back on all the times that we had misunderstood each other and, at times, had even hurt each other's feelings by snapping back at a remark rather than thinking through a respectful way to discuss whatever the issue was. Why is it that we take out our frustrations and disappointments on the one person that God has given us to be our love, our friend, our supporter, our life long mate? Is it because we know we can...

5 out of 5 ***** Elise is a young werewolf who loves life in her pack. She is in love with her best friend Bryan and cannot wait to become his mate. One day, out of the blue, she is summoned before her packs council and told that she will be mated to the neighboring packs Alpha, Kane, in order to create an alliance and expand their territories.  She is heart broken over the loss of the future she had imagined with Bryan but knows she must do as her father asks for the good of her pack. Kane has just become the new Alpha of his pack and needs a mate. He knows that this is not how Elise pictured her life but hopes to make her happy. After their first mating, he takes her back to his home and pack. Everyone seems to be so excited to meet her and accept her as part of their pack. Elise slowly begins to feel at home in her new pack but trouble is surrounding them on all sides. Someone wants the pack off  their land and will do anything to make it happen. Could it be Kane's br...

Alright folks, if you want to win a free e-book copy of Love's Prophecy, here's what you need to do. Go to Brenda's blog, Romance With A Bite and read the excerpt she has posted from the book. Feel free to look around and leave comments because Brenda loves to hear from her readers. After you have visited with Romance With A Bite and read the excerpt, come back here and answer this question: What would Breeana have to give up in order to stay with Mel? Be sure to leave your email in your comment so that, if you win, we have a way to notify you. The winner will be chosen on Monday. Good luck and happy reading!!!  

I have done reviews for several authors on Writing Opinions and, as a result, I have an ever growing list of 'favorite authors'. These are authors I check up on regularly at amazon.com, Goodreads, and other sites to see if and when they have new books out. Brenda Dyer is the latest addition to that list. I love the paranormal genre, but have avoided most of the vampire tales because they have been done to death. I am so glad I read this one! The male lead in this novel is Mel. He is a vampire who walks the streets of Vancouver at night hunting and killing demons. However, Mel is given a new assignment. He is given the task of finding out what the Vampire Prophecy is all about. As he begins to dig for information about the Prophecy, he finds Breeana. Not only does she have the mark of the Prophecy, Mel has dreamed of her. The love that grows between them puts Breeana's life in danger and Mel has to go to extreme lengths to keep her safe. What part does Breeana play in the P...

Sophia Makinoff thinks she knows exactly what she wants in life but when she is jilted by the man she thought she was going to marry, she is completely humiliated. In her humiliation, she does the only thing she can...she signs up with the Board of Foreign Missions and is fully prepared to go to China. She is not prepared for what happens next. Sophia is sent to the Ponca Indian Agency to be the new teacher. Amid horrible poverty and injustice, Sophia finds her purpose and her faith in God is strengthened. She meets some new and wonderful friends, including Will Dunn who is the Agency's carpenter. Through their mutual love of the Poncas and of the Lord, they forge a strong friendship. Can that friendship last through the tragedies the Ponca face? Will it turn into more than friendship? Through Rushing Water is a wonderfully written novel full of heartbreak and love, tragedy and triumph. This novel is Christian Fiction but it is based on the very real and very tragic history of th...

This book was precious. I read it in a little over a day and loved every single minute of it. The characters were so real, I almost expected them to step out of the story and into my living room. The main characters are Molly McCreight and Ethan Hunter. Molly is a woman who has experienced horrible tragedy and has alienated herself from most of her family and friends, including her church family. I identified with her immediately because she suffers from panic attacks and so do I. Ethan has experienced tragedy of his own and is doing everything he can to bring his baby daughter up in a way that would be pleasing to God. During a brutal ice storm, these three individuals are brought together by the Lord and a friendship slowly begins to form. As you read this novel, you will experience the heartache of both Molly and Ethan and their triumphs. As they pray for guidance on how to make decisions that are pleasing to God, you will want to bow your head and do the same. This book drew m...

This is a Christian fiction novel and it was a fantastic and refreshing read. I love Christian fiction and use to read novels by Jeanette Oke with my Grandmother when I was a teenager. Books that are set in the West during the frontier days have always captured my imagination. LOVE FINDS YOU IN WILDROSE, NORTH DAKOTA was awesome from page one. I was immediately drawn into the lives of Rosemary Jackson and Finn Tate. Mrs. Bateman has an easy and fluid writing style that makes it easy to spend the day with the characters in her book. The book is 320 pages long and I read it in a day. Because this is a Christian fiction novel, there are no sex scenes to make the reader blush. It is a very tender and sweet story that has well developed characters who depend on the guidance of the Lord to guide them through the heart break and hardships that were so much a part of life on the frontier. Reading this novel, I felt as if I were making new and very dear friends and I hated to reach the end....

If you follow my reviews, then you know I  reviewed  Rougarou by Judith before. This woman has an amazing imagination and talent for writing! She can drag a reader into her story from the first page and keep you there until the book is finished. THE HAY FORT is no different. The storyline isn’t her usual but; nevertheless, she was on top of her game with this book. Here is the book description from amazon.com: When teens Willie and Butch Coby stumble on some filled jars in an old abandoned bus they have no idea what they are inviting by taking the jars away. Not until their biology teacher checks out what the jars contain do they begin to realize some adventures can cost you your life or worse turn that life into a living nightmare. Let all who know the name of the beast... Give up his name for he will not hold back his wrath against a child of the most holy. This story will take you places you never expected it to go. It has all of the elements that make up the best parano...

A BIT ABOUT GEORGE: I write fiction, frequently seasoned with a dash of supernatural flavor. My stories have appeared in several on-line magazines and paperback short-story anthologies. In the 70s, I worked in radio & dabbled in music as a songwriter, singer, and drummer. Since then I've been a sales manager at several places in Houston. Originally a therapeutic hobby that I started in 2000, writing has become a passionate obsession. "Welcome to my imagination."   Cloned from the  remains of an ancient Egyptian god, a young man named Horace is sent to Boston's M.I.T. to study molecular biology. After graduation, he is expected to return to Egypt to recreate The Fluid of Life, an ancient elixir capable of eliminating death. The Egyptian government plans to use the magic potion to create an immortal army that will restore them to their former glory as the world's premiere superpower. Horace becomes sidetracked, however, when he falls in love with Jeanne Mo...

Over the weekend and into the next week, I will be posting some reviews. The Hay Fort by Judith McDowell and The Falcon and His Desert Rose by George R. Lasher will be the first two. Keep an eye open for them!

~The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.~ Mark Twain This is the first “free book” post I’ve done, mainly because there are so many wonderful sites that keep my Kindle well stocked with the freebies. Ereader News Today and Pixel of Ink are two of my faves. However, these are special books. The authors of each are friends of mine. They are both wonderful women and amazing authors. First is Karen Fuller’s Courting the Darkness . Here is the blurb from amazon: She was wanted by everyone... All she wanted was to be left alone, or at least that's what Desiree Dupuis thought she wanted. She was born a very powerful witch. It figures the one back fired spell she cast would make her a very wanted woman. Drake, the Vampire King, wanted her for her magic. Jason Hargrove, the witch hunter, wanted to see her burn. Caleb Jenkins, the shape-shifter, wanted to possess her. Mica Sinclair, the Rogue Vampire...We...

Hot and balmy Louisiana nights in a dark and dangerous swamp is the setting for JUDITH McDOWELL’s novel, ROUGAROU. People in Saint Anthony’s Parish, Louisiana know how to deal with the lethal and slithering creatures that call the swamps home. What they can’t deal with, however, is the Voo-Doo magic that brings forth an extremely deadly creature with a thirst for human blood. When the body count starts to rise in Saint Anthony’s Parish, each one mutilated to the point of being almost unrecognizable, Detective Donovan Hays and his close friend and ex-partner, Jack Olivier’, get a crash course in what it’s like to live in a horror movie. As they race against the clock to save their loved ones and their town, the questions weighing on their minds are; what sort of creature are they up against and can they find it before it’s too late? This was a pulse pounding read that kept me scared silly and on the edge of my seat the entire time. It has been newly edited, (by yours truly! ), and re-...

The Wisdom of Evil By Scarlet Black Q&A with Scarlet                 1)       At what age did you decide you wanted to be an author? I’ve always wanted to write. I was around 8 years old when I read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (My favorite children’s book to this day.) I wrote little pamphlets up and tied them with a ribbon to give away as presents at around that age. I was always an avid reader. Believe it or not, I started writing short screen plays while in the fifth grade, which were actually performed in the auditorium at school. What a rush it was! I then went onto short stories and finally full length novels.     2)       Where do your ideas come from? Are they based on your life experiences or do they just come to you? My ideas come from both. A lot of my characters are based, at least in part on real people I’ve come across. The Wisdom of...

Next weekend, starting on Friday the 13th, there will be a giveaway at Beth's Writing Opinions !!! The featured book is The Wisdom of Evil by Scarlet Black . Come by and check it out, leave a comment and you could win an e-book of The Wisdom of Evil . Hope to see you there and good luck!!! Check out The Wisdom of Evil on amazon here . There will be a Q&A with Scarlet as well as a short bio on her later in the week. Make sure to read them and answer the questions posted correctly for a chance to win the e-book!!!

Christmas is over and the New Year has started. You know what that means?? Time freshen up that TBR pile. In the next several days I will be posting reviews for some awesome books and some info on their authors. At the end of the week, there will be chances to win some great e-books to go on that new Kindle you just got for Christmas. Keep your eyes and open for new posts from Writing Opinions for some of the most awesome books out today!

Today is an odd Saturday as I have, not one, but two guest posts and giveaways. This review is for NIGHT JOURNEY by GOLDIE BROWNING . This was an awesome read that actually made me stop and wonder about past lives. You know when you get that feeling that you have done something before or been in a particular place before? NIGHT JOURNEY is packed with these types of remembrances. The hotel in the book is a real place and the historical aspects of this novel are true and dead on. Goldie writes in such a way that you feel as if you are right there with the characters and in the places described. This was a truly enjoyable read that I would have to put in a class of its own. It has supernatural elements, mystery and suspense, romance...it has a little of everything. There is no way you can go wrong with this one. There is also a giveaway for two e-book copies of NIGHT JOURNEY and one lucky winner will get a paperback copy, (as long as you live within the U.S.). Below is the guest post...

Every town has that one old and spooky looking house that the kids make up ghost stories about. Teenagers looking for a thrill on Friday night  will double dog dare some poor kid to show their bravery by going up onto the porch or going all the way inside. But what happens when the house is actually haunted? In  TROY McCOMBS' novel THE HOUSE ON MAYBERRY ROAD, that is exactly the problem.  Most  people have forgotten that the house on Mayberry Road even exists. That is until thrill seeking teens come up dead or insane. After one adventurous teen is torn in half and thrown out of a window on the second story of the Mayberry house, Sheriff Charlie Steera enlists the help of paranormal investigator John Rollings to help him solve the mysterious case.  Once Rollings goes inside the house and is the only one to come out alive, he begins to think that maybe he was brought to this point for a reason. He becomes obsessed with figuring out what lurks in the ordinar...

I will have several reviews posted tomorrow, July 16, 2011. Among these awesome books will be 7G:SEVENTH GENERATION by DEBBIE KUMP. This is a must read book, especially since we as a nation depend almost entirely on technology. It's actually really creepy!  I will also have a review for THE HOUSE ON MAYBERRY ROAD by TROY McCOMBS. This one is scary beyond belief and has all sorts of ghosts and monsters, a haunted house, and, yes, even a love story thrown in, although that isn't the main point of the story it does help to push it along. Ewetopia A Land Far from Normal. Can be either a bedtime story for the kids or a light hearted read for a grown up. There will several more also, just not sure which ones! :)  

Could you handle going from a tough, street-smart, heroin addict to one of the top shape shifters in one of the top shape shifter clans? Well, that is exactly what happens to Jenna Gray in the book WOLF by DENISE MAIN.   One day she’s on the street living the hopeless life of a heroin addict and the next she is thrown into the adventure of a lifetime that begins with an exploding bar. After the explosion, Jenna spends her time with her rescuer, Lone Wolf and his wolf pup. Little by little, Jenna is fed bits and pieces of memories she has been made to forget by Lone Wolf concerning her past and her life. Jenna begins to figure out what a dangerous situation she is in and wonders if she can trust anyone she considers a friend. From dirty streets in bad neighborhoods to beautiful hills in the country, the reader will follow Jenna on a mission to save herself and those of her clan she holds close to her heart. This was an action packed story with a tight easy to follow plot. Main did a...

A few weeks ago I did a review of an incredibly marvelous book by an amazingly talented author. The book is SALEM MOON by SCARLET BLACK. Here is the link to the review: http://bethswritingopinions.blogspot.com/2011/05/salem-moon-by-scarlet-black.html I told you I would let you know when it was available for purchase...IT IS!!! I am so excited! Partly because this was the very first book I edited for World Castle Publishing and partly because Debra, (aka: Scarlet Black), is a wonderful person. She is a genuinely good hearted individual and I wish her all the luck in the world! Don't forget that there is a part 2 to this story. She is working on it now(YAY!) Here are the links to purchase this book. Please read it and then come back and let me know how much you enjoyed it...because I know you will. You can go straight to the Publisher's website here: World Castle Publishing Once you click the link to go to the publisher's site you will be asked to register to purchase the...