Free Book Friday: Eternal Desire by Roxanne Rhoads

Sorry for the delay on Free Book Friday this week. Blogger has been giving me some issues today not wanting to load and giving me "service not available messages"- anyone else having problems?

Anyway keeping with the Halloween theme this week I am giving away a pdf of my steamy erotic paranormal romance Eternal Desire which is set in New Orleans during Halloween.

Eternal Desire Blurb:

Liz Beth, a paranormal researcher, is haunted by the seductive vampire, Quillon, who may or may not be real. She arrives in New Orleans the week of Halloween to search for the elusive vampire of her dreams and instead encounters a handsome stranger, Christien, with whom she begins a passionate affair with.

Soon she is torn between her dream lover and a flesh and blood man, both of whom are a mystery to her. The closer it gets to Halloween the wilder things become. LizBeth gets closer to the truth about Quillon while Christien has her under his own spell.

Will all be revealed at the Vampyre Ball or will the masks stay in place?

In New Orleans at Halloween anything is possible.

Praise for Eternal Desire:

After reading Eternal Desire, I would have to call Roxanne Rhoads a master of words. Each sentence flowed into another with a nice blend of old elegance and contemporary style…

~review by author Kiki Howell

Ms. Rhoads is an artist with words. She very tastefully wove the romance with the love scenes making the reader feel as if true romance and chivalry were still here…

~review by Bertena Varney

Eternal Desire won second place in The Pen and Muse’s 2010 Short Story Competition

Buy links - Eternal Desire is available in ebook and print formats at Amazon

ebook at Eternal Press

print at Amazon

Kindle version at Amazon

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Winner Wednesday

The winner of my ebook A Halloween to Remember is....


Katrina W

Congrats Katrina I'll be sending you an email

For those who didn't win but are interested in purchasing a copy-

A Halloween to Remember can be found at Excessica.com, All Romance Ebooks, Fictionwise, and Amazon

Critique Partner

I've been contemplating searching for a critique group or partner for awhile now, I've even looked into local writing groups but the closer one- in my genres are about four hours away.

So I thought about trying to start one of my own or just search for one online. I certainly interact with enough fellow writers that I should find someone that I mess pretty well with.

But it's just gotten put on the back burner of my to do list.

Now I am at the point where I think I am really in need of a critique partner.

I am in need of another professionals opinion and eyes.

I have so many WIP stories going on that they're all blurring together. I have more ideas than time to nit pick every one to death and polish it. I sit and read and edit and it's the same thing over and over- I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm not catching my mistakes. Everything just blurs together.

An editor sent me back my recent story submission and said I need to remove the repetition and then resubmit.

I have read and reread the story ten times today and only find two places where things seemed repetitive. The editor gave no specifics and I hate to ask- you know how it is with a new submissions editor you never know when asking will make them say "forget it we're not going to publish you."

And I think this is a publisher I'd really like to be accepted by so I don't want to screw it up. I just wish I had a second pair of eyes to read it over for me.

So now I am wishing I had a critique partner more than ever.

Anyone want to give it a go? Does anyone out there have experience critiquing work professionally?

I think I'd make a good partner. I have judged several contests including an RWA chapter's Golden Rose. I have also worked as an editor. So editing, critiquing...offering advice is nothing new to me that's why I've been doing everything on my own.

But now I am ready to branch out.

I Want a Kindle for Christmas

I feel like a hypocrite.

I write a lot of ebooks- yet I don't read very many.

My excuse- I'm on the computer all day working when it comes time to relax I want to curl up in my cozy reading spot and open a good book. Trying to read on my laptop just is not comfortable.

Plus I really love paper, I have a love affair with print books. Nothing gets me going like a book store or even better- a library. Stacks and shelves and piles of books...to me that's heaven.

I just haven't wrapped myself around reading a book electronically.

Tomorrow's my birthday- I should have asked for one of the new Kindles. Everyone keeps asking me "what do you want for your birthday?". I have been so in my head with my many WIP that my answer has been a blank stare.

Today it occurred to me "A Kindle" would be nice.

I'm adding it to my wish list for Christmas. Then I can add my own ebooks along with all my favorite authors who release shorts and ebooks- and of course my writing pals that I have not been supporting as much as I should since I have been without an e-reader.

I choose Kindle because I've heard the most about them, I'm an Amazon affiliate and almost all of my books are on Amazon- so a Kindle it is.

Who has one and can tell me good things about them?

If you've tried other e-readers and a Kindle how do they compare?

Pros and Cons anyone?