Author of the Week - AMARINDA JONES
Current mood: sassy
Category: Writing and Poetry
Amarinda Jones believes anything is possible and sometimes just asking for the impossible will surprise someone enough that they will give it to you. Writing is like that. Put it out there and wait for a response. There is always the possibility you may fall on your ass, but after all, that's what cellulite is for.
Amarinda believes in taking chances, speaking her mind and aging disgracefully. Twenty years from now she plans on being the neighborhood witch that all the kids are scared of. But then, everyone has to have a hobby.
Jontie Rhodes holds the fate of the future in her hands. The only problem is she doesn't know it. When she attends a friend's wedding she has one thought in mind. She needs a man. It has been so long since anyone has touched her in passion.
Two men want Jontie. An angel and a demon both know she has a decision to make that can affect the lives of many. They each have a plan to subtly watch her and influence her to suit their own purposes. However what starts out as manipulation soon turns into love.
Jontie is caught between heaven and hell and she is enjoying every hot, sexy moment of it.
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Taylor’s Tryst by Renee DeMarcus Now Available!
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Category: Writing and Poetry
Introverted biomedical research assistant Taylor Anderson has given up on finding sexual satisfaction, let alone a man, until her pushy best friend, Tyanna, insists she meet her boss, Brian Jackson.
Brian is an African-American man with a playboy past, one which nearly derailed his fledgling career. He is determined to tame his bad-boy image, focus on his law practice and philanthropic endeavors.
Brian and Taylor's awkward first date leads to a second sensual journey in which Taylor overcomes her sexual insecurities, and Brian finds the one woman he believes he can truly commit to.
But when meddling Tyanna lets it slip that she all but resorted to blackmail to get Brian to agree to a meaningless sex-date, Taylor is humiliated. She retreats to her lab work, intent upon denying the stirrings of love within her heart. Taylor decides Brian simply played her, adding her to a long list of sexual conquests.
Can Brian convince Taylor he is more than his past, and that their connection holds the promise of more than a meaningless sexual tryst?
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There’s Always a Reason to Celebrate at RP! Learn How to Save 15% Off Our E-Books Everyday!
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Category: Writing and Poetry
To observe each special day that passes in October, we have list of coupon codes good for 15% off e-book purchases from our website. A different day, a different code, the same 15% discount! Just enter the day's corresponding code into the coupon field in your RP shopping cart to receive your discount!
RP Buyer Rewards Program! Earn Buyer Bucks!
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Category: Writing and Poetry
The RP Buyer Rewards Program is easy.
Once you register, everytime you buy electronic books off our website, we will keep a tally of your purchases in a virtual wallet. For every $100 you spend, you will receive $10 buyer reward bucks to go toward future Resplendence e-title purchases.
Great New Releases from Celia Kyle, Regina Carlysle, Destiny Blaine, Magdalena Scott and more!
Current mood: ecstatic
Category: Writing and Poetry
God really should have reconsidered making werewolves. That, or Lyssa needed to get better taste in men and stay away from those with wandering eyes… and other things. Drunk as a wolf, she stumbles to her best friend's house to sleep off her whiskey-induced haze and wakes up to… cuffs?
Caleb sees his chance and takes it. His buddies on the force ribbed him good for buying silver plated cuffs. But with a werewolf in his bed, the woman he's yearned for since they were teens, he wasn't taking any chances. Lyssa was his. She just didn't know it yet.
All she really wanted was one naughty night before returning to her life as a sheltered country spinster! Crawling beneath a bed in London's most notorious brothel was beyond the pale, even for known eccentric Arabella Spencer. Little did she imagine that lust, desire, and yes, love was just within her grasp.
When Grayson St. James, Lord Mercer, newly returned from fighting Napoleon, dragged a squirming, dusty bluestocking from beneath his bed, he was…well..aghast! She wanted adventure, did she? She wanted to learn about sex, did she? He was just the man to teach her.
Armand sought Matilda for a purpose even he doesn't understand. Now he has her in his homeland and she's not sure she wants to stay. He has offered the sexy little witch a delicious opportunity to revisit the past of one of the most notorious vampire-witches to ever live, but she has to do it on his terms.
Matilda has other ideas. The sooner she can go back in time and revisit the life of the notorious Blood Countess, Erzebet Bathory, the better. Only one obstacle stands in her way: Armand and his… uncertain transformations. If she can figure out how to lead him to the other side, she will be able to make her move. But can she deal with Armand once he makes the full shift to a much darker life?
The Boudicca revolt has been squelched, the tribes of the Iceni and the Trinovantes have been exterminated by the Roman Governor of Britannia, Suetonius. He has sworn his revenge on the remaining tribes for the Celtic insolence.
Marius and Delia are now King and Queen of a broken Celtic tribe, and Marius has to use all his skill and cunning to help his hunted people as they flee before General Suetonius' sword. Reluctantly donning the mask of the liberatio mysticus, the "phantom" that hides the scattered tribes, the couple recruits Marius' ex-Roman century and what few Celtic warriors that remain to face the deadly Roman machine. They struggle to keep their people together and prevent the rest of a nation from fading into history.
After the death of her husband, forty-year-old Alice Williams is stuck in a rut. She's lived in tiny Quidnuc, Indiana her whole life. She has a dead-end job, and her only dating option--if she were actually interested in dating--is the local wife-beater. Not a pleasant outlook for the rest of her life. And now she's having the same dream every night. Fortunately, it features her favorite action hero movie star, Robert Diamond. Too bad he'll never show up on her front doorstep.
Robert is having the same dream as Alice, and wants it to stop. He can't learn his lines for a new film--he's too distracted by the amazing kiss he shares with his dream woman. So after he tracks Alice down, they will try to explain the connection between the two of them, and why the story Alice wrote in a blank notebook has hijacked both their dreams. Then they can finally roll the credits on what's fast becoming a nightmare.
Nicole Anderson owns a successful costume design business, has a wealth of small town friends and sleeps in a lonely bed haunted by demons from the past. She's convinced herself her life is exactly the way she wants it and has shot down every marriageable man within a fifty-mile radius.
When Hunter Douglas is assigned the task of delivering a deceased friend's children to their aunt, he must first convince the belligerent Nicole Anderson that she actually had a sister. Though forced to take his two charges to Minnesota, Hunter fully intents to persuade Ms. Anderson to allow the children to return to New York with him —without sharing his own little secret. The last thing he wants to do is fall in love with a woman who lives in a small Midwest town with neighbors who seem to know every move he makes.
As the heat index between Nicole and Hunter rises, a bizarre puzzle begins to unfold involving false birth certificates, a stolen suitcase, odd pictures, an elusive stalker, and a grandfather's legacy that could turn deadly.
Read GREEN with RP this week! You’ll be saving 15% and helping the American Red Cross!
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Category: Writing and Poetry
Read GREEN and give back!
During the last week of each month, Resplendence Publishing will offer a special coupon code good for 15% off any e-book purchase on our website during the entire week.
Our readers will be able to purchase our great RP titles at a 15% discount AND know that for each purchase a portion of the proceeds will be going toward the chosen charity of the month.
Our SEPTEMBER 2008 charity is the American Red Cross - National Disaster Relief.
Beginning SEP 21st - SEP 30th, you can enter this code in the coupon field in your RP shopping cart for your 15% discount:
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The American Red Cross
National Disaster Relief
You can help the victims of thousands of disasters across the country each year, disasters like the Hurricanes of 2008, by making a financial gift to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund. This Fund enables the Red Cross to provide shelter, food, counseling and other assistance to victims of disasters. The American Red Cross honors donor intent. If you wish to designate your donation to a specific disaster please do so at the time of your donation by either contacting 1-800-REDCROSS or mailing your donation, with the designation, to the American Red Cross, P.O. Box 37243, Washington, D.C. 20013.
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9/13/2008 — Red Cross There as Hurricane Ike Roars Ashore Red Cross workers are providing shelter, food and emotional support for tens of thousands affected by Hurricane Ike. From Lake Charles, Louisiana, to Houston, Texas, the Red Cross is there, on the ground, providing relief.
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Taken with the Enemy
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Tia Fanning
Release date: 2008-06-05
Born and raised on a North Dakota farm, Jannifer started writing at the age of twelve, creating novels in her head while walking home from a one-room schoolhouse. A lifetime avid reader, she began serious writing in 1974 after reading The Flame and the Flower and Sweet Savage Love.
After completing two historical romances, Ceremony of Deception and Silver Shadows, she decided to try her hand at contemporary romance. It took a year to complete Secrets of the Heart. The sequel, Secret Sacrifices, took nearly two years.
In 1999, Jannifer joined Romance Writers of America and MFW (Midwest Fiction Writers). This spring she also became a member of the WisRWA (WISCONSIN Romance Writers of America) chapter.
She spends summers on Sturgeon Lake, (up north) Minnesota, and winters in Yuma, Arizona (southwest).
Hobbies, besides writing of course, include sewing for craft shows and her little corner in a boutique in Moose Lake, and painting animals and flowers on rocks.
Coming Soon to Resplendence Publishing...
Secret Sacrifices by Jannifer Hoffman
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Circle Star
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Release date: 2008-07-17
An Introduction to Horror -- Say Hello to Crystal Meth by Susan Smith Alvis is Now Available!!!
Current mood: worried
Category: Writing and Poetry
Meth comes into homes and it destroys everyone living within the confines of the four walls it invades. Meth kills. It takes everything. It destroys anyone and everyone that gets in its way and while some choose to look the other way or find a different focus for world peace, Meth lingers. It waits. After all, it's a very patient drug because the longer it weaves its venom through the veins of the user, the more it can ultimately destroy.
An Introduction to Horror: Say Hello to Crystal Meth is for the reader who is addicted to Crystal Meth or those who are interested in cooking up their first batch of Crystal Methamphetamines. It's for the addict now running from his own shadow and the mother who can't deal with her addicted son or daughter. It's for teachers and those who are in a position to not only bring about awareness but also make a difference.
The only thing this book isn't going to provide is sympathy or pity for those using Crystal Meth—the author is fresh out. An Introduction to Horror: Say Hello to Crystal Meth is a book geared toward all ages because this drug doesn't care how old its victims are—and neither do the dealers putting it out on our streets.
If you've already been introduced to Crystal Meth then you may have numerous questions. Hopefully, you'll find some answers within these pages. You may want to know where this horrific new drug came from or if it's a new drug at all? (It isn't) You'll be surprised to discover the history behind Meth because it has a torrid past.
Crystal Meth has been attributed to many broken homes. Mothers choose Meth over motherhood and fathers refuse to support their families because their search for the next fix is far more appealing. Siblings battle one another as one brother fights to keep the other alive and drug-free. Parents are burying their children as one more son or daughter falls victim to Meth—and if you think it's getting better, oh just you wait. You don't know the half of it, but I do and I'll share what I know with you.
Pick up your copy of "An Introduction to Horror: Say Hello to Crystal Meth" by Susan Smith Alvis
Read GREEN, Promote Literacy, and Save 15%!!!
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During the last week of each month, Resplendence Publishing will offer a special coupon code good for 15% off any e-book purchase on our website.
Our readers will be able to purchase our great RP titles at a 15% discount AND know that for each purchase a portion of the proceeds will be going toward the chosen charity of the month.
Our AUGUST 2008 charity is the
National Center for Family Literacy
From AUG 22nd – AUG 30th, you can enter this code in the coupon field in your RP shopping cart for your 15% discount:
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The National Center for Family Literacy
NCFL's mission is to create a literate nation by leveraging the power of the family.
Family literacy is an intergenerational approach based on the indisputable evidence that low literacy is an unfortunate and debilitating family tradition. Parents who are not literate tend to have children who struggle academically and who often do not achieve literacy proficiency in adulthood.
Family literacy helps parents and children form a learning partnership that ends the cycle of poverty and low literacy. NCFL works to find solutions to the literacy crisis that build on the family to create a new cycle of ongoing learning and mutual support.
Description of NCFL's Work...
National and international experts look to NCFL as the leading resource in family learning and literacy. Literacy programs, policy makers and philanthropists rely on NCFL's leadership, advocacy and professional services to address the educational challenges facing the nation.
NCFL's goals are to:
--Create understanding about low literacy and about how family is the transformative structure to improve literacy for adults and children
--Develop, evaluate, and replicate programs and interventions poised to break the cycle of low literacy for families with the greatest barriers to success
--Create innovative solutions to learning English and achieving literacy proficiency for the nation's immigrant population
--Support the teachers, practitioners, and community providers who deliver literacy services by developing and supplying tools to make their work more effective
--Provide families with tools and information necessary to build literacy into their home and daily life
--Assist communities and service organizations in designing and developing strategic programs to provide literacy services at the local level to large numbers of families
To find out more about National Center for Family Literacy, please click here to visit their website.
Author of the Week - J L WILSON
Current mood: imaginative
Category: Writing and Poetry
About Romance Author J L Wilson...
I grew up in Iowa, and have traveled extensively only to come back to the Midwest to live. In 2003 I read my first romantic suspense novel and decided I'd found my genre. But there was a problem: the books I read all featured young heroines, interested in starting a family and having babies. So I started writing romantic suspense about older women who are interested in men and sex and having a good relationship (which may or may not include a marriage). I hope you enjoy reading about them as much as I enjoy writing about them.
An undercover FBI agent in a tiny Iowa town finds you can't hide anything from a woman who's determined to find out the truth...
Nick Baxter, an undercover FBI agent, thinks his brilliant disguise will fool the hicks in New Providence, Iowa. They won't suspect he's there investigating widow Shannon Delgardie, under suspicion of treason. What Nick doesn't know is that everybody in town is conspiring to protect her and investigate him in return.
Shannon needs help. The men her late husband blackmailed are closing in and the FBI might be involved. When Nick approaches her, can she trust him? With the aid of computer hackers and hair stylists, she uncovers the truth, finding a love she never expected in a tiny Iowa town.
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Now Available! Male Me by Amarinda Jones
Current mood: sassy
Category: Writing and Poetry
After Delaware Brooks sends a silly email about what she would like the new boss to do to her, she is called into the boss's office. The punishment? Every hot, sexual craving she has ever had, fulfilled. But Templeton McAdam is not the only new man in her life. His best friend, Speed is invited to enjoy Delaware much to her surprise and excitement. Two men. One woman. Their only desire is to please her.
Intense pleasure is one thing, but is it wrong to enjoy both men? What would a good girl do? And should she be falling in love with them so fast? But sudden love is not the only problem Delaware has. Someone is watching her every move and planning on teaching her a lesson.
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More Than Words by Kelly Kirch... Now Available!!!
Current mood: excited
Category: Writing and Poetry
Kylie Dobson is a romance author with a problem. As a seat-of-the-pants writer, she depends on the strength of the characters to drive her plot. But when her hero, Milo, Lord Gafton refuses to chase after the prescribed heroine, everything goes wonky. Kylie is inexplicably sucked into her work of fiction, transported from a contemporary venue to a fictional Regency setting. What's worse is, nothing she does is affecting the plot and she can't get out.
Set into motion by her own creative process is a winter storm which seals the Regency party goers in on a country estate. If that wasn't bad enough, a murderer is on the loose and he's picking off one guest at a time. The more time she spends with Milo the more she comes to depend on him. She's convinced that his character sketch will kick in at any moment and he'll fall for her heroine. But will it happen before she loses her heart to him? And what happens when the plot draws to the end? Will the killer have his way and will Kylie solve the case only to be returned to her reality without the man she's fallen for?
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Author of the Week - TARA GREENBAUM
Current mood: fabulous
Category: Writing and Poetry
Tara Greenbaum resides in North Florida with her husband, two little boys, and two dachshunds. She divides her time between wrestling with her boys and wrestling with her next plot.
In her life before children, Tara was an elementary school teacher. Now as a stay-at-home-mom, she's found that her love of writing and reading grants her a much needed escape from playing "jump on mommy" and crashing Hot Wheels cars.
Hard working Jillian Connelly is struggling.
Struggling to launch her fledgling florist shop, to pay her bills, to get over her cheating ex-fiance. The last thing she needs is a new boyfriend. So how is she supposed to be the composed maid of honor in her best friend's wedding when her ex is the best man? And what is she going to do when her attempted one-night stand wants more?
Billionaire hotelier Garrett McGuinness is tired.
Tired of women who want his money, of superficiality, of the game. All he wants is a little peace and a woman who loves him for himself, not his wallet. No way is he going to spoil his chances with Jillian by admitting his true identity. She's everything he dreamed of in a woman, except for her aversion to liars…And he's dug himself a whopping hole with his!
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Celia would have loved to have written her own biography, but she just didn't know what to say. In a fit of desperation, she turned to me, her most trusted confidant and friend. I realize you're asking yourself, "Who is this?" I am Cali, her cat. I also go by a few other names, but those may be too strong for your delicate ears. Suffice it to say my mommy is very creative and not just with writing.
My mommy, Celia, began writing in August of 2006. I know this because it was around that time our meals started coming later and later in the day. As months passed, she spent more and more time in front of the boring screen. Though, it was fun to chase the little arrow around every once in a while. You should hear her scream! But I digress.
She's worked hard to give readers sexy, quirky heroines they can relate to. And you better damn well appreciate it. All I got was late night feedings. And I didn't even make it into one of her books by name! That damn kitten, Katie O'Meghan, did. Bitch.
Well, enjoy her writings and if you want to praise her for her work… don't. I'd like to get fed at some point, people.
Fine. If you must contact her, click here to visit her website. But when I go hungry, I'll blame you all.
Ember Ellason is a darned good secretary. True, she'd like to be more, but since her father's passing, her step-mother has taken over as CEO of Ellason Advertising, and Clementine Ellason feels Ember is only good enough to fetch coffee… barely. But when Clementine and her horrid daughters fail to show up for the meeting with the biggest client they could ever land, Ember saves the day by impersonating her step-mother.
Paul Ashe needs a new ad campaign and he's found the perfect company with the perfect proposal in Ellason Advertising. Too bad his body is a little too interested in the voluptuous CEO with her fiery red hair and blazing green eyes. Then he can't seem to find the elusive woman after their first intimate tryst, and is left with only a pair of panties to remember her by.
Will this Cinderella tale end in happily ever after? Or will Ember be separated from her prince—and her panties—for ever more?
Our readers will be able to purchase our great RP titles at a 15% discount AND know that for each purchase a portion of the proceeds will be going toward the chosen charity of the month.
Our JULY 2008 charity is the
SurfRider Foundation
Beginning July 25th - August 4th, you can enter this code in the coupon field of your RP shopping cart for your 15% discount:
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