Get caught reading a Turquoise Morning Press book!

TMP has a great offer for readers, a free TMP e-book of choice to anyone sending them a photo of you or a friend reading one of their books (including my short story in the latest release, Be Mine, Valentine). You can be reading it on an ereader. Just take or have someone snap a photo showing the cover page on the reader or the page of Chapter One (or however you want to do this creatively). More details here: http://tinyurl.com/4dgthzf


Mary O'Dell reading Renee Vincent's Raeliksen on Friday, January 28, 2011 at Karen's Book Barn in La Grange, Kentucky.

Debut Day!

I have four short stories out today, three in two anthologies in L&L Dreamspell pubications under my pseudonyms, Terry Campbell and Daryn Cross and one in the Be Mine, Valentine anthology form Turquoise Morning Press. The last one is the first published under my real name, so I am very excited.Ot is available at these links:
Amazon Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/4t4yl5g
All Romance EBooks: http://tinyurl.com/4jxg7ek

Here are the other covers and the links:

All Romance E-Books http://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-dreamspellromancevolume1-509881-166.html

All Romance E-Books http://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-dreamspellmagicvolume1-509880-143.html

The Versatile Blogger Award!

My friend Monti Sykes, http://marymontaguesikes.blogspot.com was good enough to give this to me. I must thank her and apologize for waiting so long to post it.

As a 'taggie' I am supposed to do the following:
1) Share 7 things about myself.
2) Pass this award on to 15 other bloggers recently discovered.
3) Notify the recipients.
4) Link the blogger who gave this award.

So here we go:
Seven things about myself:
1) I am a former tennis champ in team tennis, tri-state division in Michelob Light team tennis.
2) I won the Lynchburg News & Advance cooking contest on year for the appetizer division (cream of broccoli soup).
3) I was President of the Lynchburg Business and Professional Women's Club.
4) I learned how to play chess when I was six.
5) I planned on being a Chemistry major in college after I graduated with the high school's science award.
6) I got five numbers out of six on the VIrginia State Lottery the year it started.
7) I was President of my church's Methodist Youth Fellowship.

I will now pass this award on to the following bloggers:
1) Jennifer at http://www.readingwithtequila.com
2) April at http://www.goodbooksandgoodwine.com
3) The ladies at http://dailycheapreads.com
4) Anastasia at http://birdbrainbb.net
5) Jenn at http://www.jennsbookshelves.com
6) Marva at http://mgddasef.blogspot.com
7) Clare at http://theembraced.blogspot.com
8) Beth at http://writersfunzone.com
9) Renee at http://pasttheprint.blogspot.com
10) Jennifer at http://4writers.blogspot.com
11) Kerri at http://thebookboost.blogspot.com
12) The ladies at http://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com
13) The ladies at http://TheMojitoLiterarySociety.Blogspot.com
14) Julie at //http://blog.juliealindsey.com
15) Heather at http://hmgardner.blogspot.com

You ladies all rock!

Another New Cover and Trailer!

These are for one of my Terry Campbell books, Slam Sisters of Serendipity, but I had to share.

Photo and video editing at www.OneTrueMedia.com

Welcome to Marriage With Style

Hi everyone, I hope you don’t mind meeting in my bridal boutique. You see, Henrietta Franklin is due in about thirty minutes for a fitting. She can be a bit persnickety and a regular faucet, so I don’t dare try to leave in case I can’t get back in time. I do love to talk and sometimes I find it hard to stop. You know how it is when you’re the unofficial AP for a small town.

Grab yourself some coffee. I have hot water and tea bags too. You choose. Now to why I’m here. My sister hijacked Bobbye’s blog again. You see, Trix is a bit out-of-sorts with Bobbye. Seems our author has been finishing another manuscript and not working on ours. As Trixie says, Marriage Murders is just waiting to be told. She figured it was only fitting I explain why. Okay, the plain truth forces me to fess up to the fact I threatened her beyond an inch of her life if she tried to sneak in here again and take over until I’d had my say.

Oh, my goodness, where are my manners? I’m Roxie Turner. Whatever lies my sister told you before, please ignore them. She’s still miffed I was the baby and got all the attention, not to mention I am only in my early forties while she’s twelve years older and facing senility. Oh, and then there’s the fact she’s married to Floyd, the Great White Couch Potato, while I am the gay widow. Gay as in happy, let’s not spread any rumors.

Now, as Trix told you, I’m sure, because she just blurts out everything she knows, our first book in the Briny Bay Mysteries, Buried in Briny Bay, comes out in mid-March from Turquoise Morning Press. The second book will tell the story of my lead role in solving the mystery of my marriage party’s murders. Why would anyone murder the groom, much less start picking off other members in the same wedding? It was a mite deadly for a while, but not half as explosive as my cat-war with one Marlowe Malone. Snarling red-nailed she-lion. That woman better leave my Greg Norris alone. Okay, maybe he doesn’t know the full extent of my affections and the fact I’ve laid full-fledge claim to him, but women have to keep their secrets, you know.

I suppose I’ve jumped too far ahead. First you need to join me as I get out of my tussle and a jail sentence for the murder of Georgia Collins. A fortune teller told me my life would be full of excitement, but she never told me what kind.
Whoops! Gotta go now, I hear Bobbye coming back with a cup of tea. She’s such a Southern lady. See ya’!

Welcome to the Happy Daze Diner

Hi, folks, take a seat in the Happy Daze Diner and let Trix get you a house special icebox lemon pie and some sweet tea. You say you just came in from the snow? Oh, that’s right, the South does have a bitter front going through. No problem, I have the Blue Plate Special too, slow cooking pot roast, mashed potatoes with gravy, and green beans made from some out of my very own freezer. Of course if you’re a vegetarian, not that I think it’s normal, I was after all brought up a true salt pork and ham hock Southern girl, I can make you a veggie plate. Coffee’s on the house.

Now for those of you who are confused, this is Bobbye Terry’s blog. She’s just busy right now writing the sequel to my sister, Roxie’s and my first novella, “Buried in Briny Bay.” I told Rox I was going to sneak in here and introduce myself. Trixie Frye here. As you can see, I own this diner. I’m married to Floyd Frye, my very own couch potato when he’s not working as a barber at his shop. Of course even at work he can watch TV, which does make me ponder how good his haircuts really are. Never mind, enough about Floyd. He is an albatross I have to bear. I shouldn’t subject him on others.

Now about Bobbye, she’s not much on publicity, which is why I sneaked in here, but my sister and I know all the ropes. After all, I have this diner and Roxie runs the Marriage with Style Bridal Boutique. Poor Rox, always a bridal consultant, never a bride. Okay, she did up and marry a fella more than twenty years ago but he ended up dead in the most curious manner. I don’t want to spoil the first book, so please excuse me for not sharing all the details. That feels a mite strange, cause it’s not like me at all. The price one has to pay for being in a book. Oh, well.

About the book, novella, that is, it’ll be in electronic form and published by Turquoise Morning Press March 14th. “Buried in Briny Bay” takes place in the fine town of Briny Bay, North Carolina, just off the Pamlico Sound. Normally, nothing much happens in Briny Bay, but starting with Roxie’s supposed alien abduction (not that I’m buying it) and now with the death of her nemesis, Georgia Collins, at the beginning of the novella, I’d say things are going to get a whole lot hotter around here.

Speaking of hot, did I mention we have a newcomer to Briny Bay, Greg Norris, hunky P.I.? He does make Roxie’s heart go pitty pat. But, I swear the woman moves slower than Floyd on Sports Sunday. Don’t know if she’ll even know how to move down the right path, so we’ll just have to see.

Whoops! Just heard Bobbye coming this way, so better skedaddle. Uh, this visit’s just between us, okay? *Wink wink* That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. Bye!

Mystery Contract for Novella series!

Buried in Briny Bay, the first of four Briny Bay mysteries is closer to becoming a reality since yesterday. Turquoise Morning Press has accepted it for publication March 14th with the others spaced out every few months for the next year. I am over the moon--Snoopy dance in outer space!

To celebrate, here is the video book trailer for the first novella.

Make an on-line slide show at www.OneTrueMedia.com

New Novel Contracted!

I'm on a roll, folks! I am happy to announce my sequel to Coming to Climax will now become a reality. I don't have a release date yet for Nick of Time, probably in 2012, but Turquoise Morning Press has accepted it for publication. Just a bit to entice you: