NEW YEAR GOALS: #books #contempromance #Fitzgeralds #Guardian Legacy @ednahwalters @yaednah_walters

So what does the future hold for you? Any plans? Goals? Resolutions? I hate resolutions coz I never fulfill them. Goals are good coz you need one even if it is a tentative one.

Here is my to-do list for 2013. What do you think?

• Write 6 full-length books-finish the next GL book, write the next 2 Runes book (these are YA, 80,000 words), 1 paranormal adult romance (a new series,) and the next 2 Fitzgerald books (adult contemporary romance)
• Write 2 contemporary novella (YA)
• Save the world at least 3 times (that's what my paranormal series are about, men and women saving the world from total annihilation)
• Find a publisher for my picture books (not really a priority but I keep putting this off)
• Cure world hunger one child at a time (my family is planning on supporting a child in an orphanage in Kenya, $35 a month this year)

It seems like a daunting list, but I’m at that place where I’m certain I can do all 5 things. 

Eight books, LOL, I'm pushing it, but hey, they say dream big, right? If I make it, I'll be Queen of the Bookdom. If i don't, I can say I tried. Will start working on one next week.  I'll give myself 6-8weeks to finish it.

In the meantime, let me know what your plans are.

Winner of Mid-Winter HOP is: DARLENE (hope you got my e-mail)

Here’s to 2013!!!

CHRISTMAS WISHES BLOG H*O*P*: Don't miss #books #kindle #NookGlow, ove 150 authors @ednahwalters

 

Welcome! We are so happy to announce that 3 great Virtual Tour companies have joined together to bring you this wonderful hop. Book & Trailer Showcase (BTS Virtual Book Tours), Coffee Beans & Love scenes (CBLS Promotions), and Full Moon Bites (FMB Blog Tours) proudly presents the “Christmas Wishes Giveaway Hop”. There will be a couple of Grand Prizes – A Kindle Paperwhite, A Nook Glow, and a $90 choice Gift Card for either Amazon or BN. Both Tablets will come with a book bundle!!

 Christmas Wishes! Hmmmmmm!

– What to wish for –

Books and more Books – LOL

Since this the season for giving

I am giving away e-copies of all my books to one lucky winner, AWESOME RIGHT!

For a chance to win my BOOKS

just leave me a comment telling me what hottest book you've read this year and let me know which one of the books listed above you would really love to read.

For entry into the Grand Prize giveaway, use rafflecopter below for entry

Good Luck Everyone!
STOP BY OTHER AUTHORS' PAGES TO WIN MORE GOODIES

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DREAMING OF SUMMER: With #DangerousLove (book4) & #ForeverHers (book 5) @ednahwalters, #Fitzgeralds, #ebook

First, Congrats to the winner of Gratitude Giveaway Hop: #40 (i already e-mailed you, Denise)


NOW from November 27th to December 2nd

With winter upon us, let's warm up by sharing some of our favorite beach/summer reads! Thanks to Me, My Shelf and I & I am a Reader not a Writer for hosting this blog hop.

One lucky winner will get a signed print copy of Forever Hers----I just found out I have 1 left...woohoo and get an e-copy of Dangerous Love too.

TO ENTER (US Only):

CHOOSE 1 WAY TO FOLLOW ME:

1. This blog

2. twitter

3. FB fanpage

4. Goodreads

But please leave a comment with where you joined, so I can choose a winner fast and easy

SHOWING GRATITUDE to my READERS: Forever Hers by @ednahwalters, #Fitzgeralds #book5 #mustread, #ebook

 Thanks to Kathy of I am a Reader not a Writer for hosting this giveaway hop. 

THE WINNER OF THE PREVIOUS GIVEAWAY IS:    Brbalways. Congrats. Send me your address...also expect an e-mail.

NOW for this Giveaway, WIN:

An e-copy of Forever Hers:

To ENTER:

 

TO ENTER (INT):

CHOOSE 1 WAY TO FOLLOW ME:

1. This blog

2. twitter

3. FB fanpage

4. Goodreads

 

But please leave a comment with where you joined, so I can choose a winner fast and easy

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Thankful For Books: FOREVER HERS, @ednahwalters, #Fitzgerald, #mustread

Welcome to Thankful For Books Giveaway Hop! 

Thanks to Kathy of I am a Reader not a Writer and Tristi Pinkston for hosting this giveaway hop.  Wow, it is huge.

Okay, my new release deals with domestic violence.

To celebrate women's empowerment, I will give one lucky winner:

1. a button and a key chain of woman learning to fly:

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2. A signed ARC of Forever Hers:

To ENTER:

1. Tell me what you prefer reading, a book that is part of a series, so you can catch up with the previous couples or do you prefer stand-alone novels. The Fitzgerald Family series is about eligible Fitzgerald men and women who face every day challenges to find love.

2. Watch the trailer of Forever Hers and leave a comment

He went on vacation, he found love FOREVER HERS (book 5), #Fitzgerald, #ednahwalters, http://tinyurl.com/9hf8l3c

WINNERS:
1. Wicked Romances giveaway hop winner: bn100


2. Spooktacular Hop winner is: Joy Flynn

3.  Hollow Blog hop winner is:Megan Bowie

I need your addies



FOREVER HERS TEASER:

Closing the door and softly turning the lock, he froze at the tell-tale sound of a gun cocking. Then a glaring light filled the foyer. Not the overhead light. The intensity indicated it was a flashlight.

“Drop the bag, open the door and get the hell out of my house before I start shooting,” a female ordered.

Eddie hands shot up. “Ma’am—”

“Don’t ma’am me, you son of a bitch. Open the goddamn door and get moving.”

The voice was smoky and low with an eastern lilt. It stroked his senses, the effect on him unexpected. He bit off a curse. Hadn’t his cousin said the woman was about sixty years old? Either he now had a thing for cougars or he liked being subjugated by a gun-wielding woman, which was unlikely. He wasn’t into bondage.

“My name is Eddie Fitzgerald. Baron, the owner of this house, is my cousin.”

She scoffed. “If you think dropping the Fitzgerald name is going to convince me of anything, think again.”

“I used a key to get inside the house,” Eddie ground out through clenched teeth, letting the keys dangle on his forefinger. “Where could I have gotten it unless they were given to me by the owners of this house?”

“Show me an ID or I’m shooting.”

Eddie relaxed. People who threatened to shoot most often weren’t shooters.

SPOOKTACULAR GIVE@W@Y HθP: #mustread #ForeverHers #NewRelease # Contemp http://tinyurl.com/9hf8l3c

HAPPY HALLOWEEN AND WELCOME TO:

Welcome to the Spooktacular Giveaway Hop! 

Thanks to Kathy of I am a Reader not a Writer and The Diary of a Bookworm for hosting this giveaway hop. Wow, it is huge.

Okay, my new release deals with domestic violence. My heroine reaches a point when she decides she won't run anymore from her ex and must fight back to protect her child and herself. It doesn't hurt that she meets a man willing to train her.

To celebrate women's empowerment, I will give one lucky winner:

1. a button and a keychain of woman learning to fly:

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2. A signed ARC of Forever Hers:

To enter, fill out the rafflecopter below:

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WICKED ROMANCES BY MANY AUTHORS: #FOREVER HERS #mustread #Contemp @ednahwalters http://tinyurl.com/9srxfmg

Thanks to Reading Romance for organizing this Giveaway blog hop:

I love participating in these hops because I connect with new authors and acquire new fans along the way. See below for the goodies.

What you can win here: 3 things, SEE BELOW

Number of winners: 1

Open to: INT

How to enter: USE THE RAFFLECOPTER

 FOREVER HERS:

Since my heroine in FOREVER HERS is a domestic violence survivor, I'm also giving away this button:

 And since my hero is a detective:

TO ENTER, use the rafflecopter below

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Hop and enter the other giveaways!

To sign up, please add your link bellow:

FOREVER HERS-falling for the housekeeper, #contemporary #mustread @ednahwalters http://tinyurl.com/9hf8l3c

Win a signed copy on Goodreads.
FOREVER HERS is now available.

 She wants her past hidden...

Amy Kincaid is running from her controlling ex-husband, who will stop at nothing to find her. With a new identity and a new job as a housekeeper, she just wants to be left alone to raise her daughter. Then Eddie Fitzgerald rolls into town and turns her world upside down.

He’s in the business of exposing the truth...

Eddie Fitzgerald, L.A.P.D.'s finest, lives for his job and nothing else, until he decides to take a break at the family summer home and is held at gunpoint by the most annoying, sassiest woman to ever cross his path. But something is off about Amy, and the more he learns about her, the more he’s convinced she’s a fugitive.

When her past catches up to her, Amy has no choice but to trust Eddie. Unfortunately, Eddie has demons of his own, and struggles with the decision to protect her or uphold the law.

The truth takes them down a deadly path, and only love can save them.


You can find e-copies:

Amazon

Barnes & Noble

Smashwords

 OR

If you want to win a signed copy, head to Goodreads and enter the giveaway  or use the link below:

Goodreads Book Giveaway

Forever Hers

by Ednah Walters

Giveaway ends November 15, 2012.
See the giveaway details at Goodreads.

Enter to win

Naughty, Nice and Loads of Fun @ednahwalters

 

Come and celebrate women’s ability to survive abuse and fly. Amy Kincaid, my heroine in FOREVER HERS, is a survivor, a fighter and a strong woman who will do whatever it takes to protect herself and those she loves. 

 

When is the celebration? A week from today during the release day of FOREVER HERS, book #5 of the Fitzgeralds. Katrina Whittaker, the lovely lady who runs my fan page, has created an event page on Facebook, so come and join us.

Of course, we can’t forget that FOREVER HERS is a romance book and there’s a superhot, super flawed hero involved; a man who is not afraid to face the challenge of winning over a damaged woman, a man who will stand by her when she faces her worst moments. Did I mention he’s smoking hot? We have goodies celebrating this wonderful man and an addition to the Fitzgerald heroes.

Stop by the event page and join us, and don't miss the teasers on my fanpage

IMPORTANT***
I've had readers of my YA series ask for the CLEAN version of my adult series. If you are interested in CLEAN ROMANCE and would like to read a CLEAN version of this book, e-mail me at ednahyaauthor@aol.com 

For those who read contemporary romance with suspense, romance about ordinary women you can identify with, overcoming various situations and the gorgeous, flawed men who love them, you will love this series. There's romance, suspense, strong family bonding and an amazing array of characters.


On a different note, the winner of banned books is: Jolene Allcock. CONGRATS!!!!

Keep Reading!!!!

BOOKTRAILER LAUNCH: Forever Hers (Book 5 of the Fitzgerald Family) @ednahwalters

Excited to share FOREVER HERS book trailer. Most of my readers know I love my heroes, but there's something special about Eddie. I just knew there was, just didn't know what until I started writing and got inside his head.

You met Eddie Fitzgerald in almost all my previous books. He's bad-ass, loyal to a fault (think of the number times he'd put his career on the line to bailout a family member), has a problem with authority and is super hot. I mean Fitzgerald boys are all handsome, overachievers and loaded, but Eddie never acted like money mattered to him. He was always about order, keeping bad guys behind bars, watching out for his family. It took a special woman to break through the walls surrounding his heart. A special woman and an adorable little girl

As we get closer to the release date, I'll post teasers from FOREVER HERS, but in the coming weeks, enjoy some of Eddie's moments from previous books.

ENJOY the trailer and let me know what you think here or my YOUTUBE Channel.

COVER REVEAL: Forever Hers by E.B. Walters

 Woo-hoo, I'm thrilled to reveal the cover of my next Fitzgerald book. The book trailer release will be announced in a couple of weeks. 

Release Date: October 15th

Publisher: Firetrail Publishing.

BLURB:

She wants her past hidden…

Amy Kincaid is running from her controlling ex-husband, who will stop at nothing to find her. With a new identity and a new job as a housekeeper, she just wants to be left alone to raise her daughter. Then Eddie Fitzgerald rolls into town and turns her world upside down.

He’s in the business of exposing the truth…

Eddie Fitzgerald, L.A.P.D.'s finest, lives for his job and nothing else, until he decides to take a break at the family summer home and is held at gunpoint by the most annoying, sassiest woman to ever cross his path. But something is off about Amy, and the more he learns about her, the more he’s convinced she’s a fugitive.

When her past catches up to her, Amy has no choice but to trust Eddie. Unfortunately, Eddie has demons of his own, and struggles with the decision to protect her or uphold the law.

The truth takes them down a deadly path, and only love can save them.

Spring Fling G I V E @ A W A Y H0P

Spring Fling Giveaway Hop

May 1st - 7th

Hosted by I Am A Reader, Not A Writer & Eve's Fan Garden

Enter for a chance to win :

A signed copy of Kiss Me Crazy (book #3 of the Fitzgerlads)

and a surprise swag.

1. LIKE FITZGERALD FAN PAGE, on FB

2. Follow my blog AND leave a comment, including e-mail

3. follow me on Twitter

CONTEST IS US ONLY

HOPPY EASTER EXTRAVAGANZA

It is that time of the year when we celebrate spring and life. Thanks to Kathy @ I Am a Reader Not a Write and Yara @ Once Upon A Twilight for hosting this giveaway.

I'm working on books 5 and 6 of the Fitzgerald Family Series, a contemporary romance with suspense. No, my books are not erotica, no matter what you've heard. I write about contemporary men and women meeting either at workplace, or brought together through a common goal, and how they overcome obstacles, past and present, to find love.

Three of them are in the top 100 Romantic Suspense:

SLOW BURN is #23

DANGEORUS LOVE is # 80

MINE UNTIL DAWN is # 98

KISS ME CRAZY is contemporary romance without suspense...

 it is #56 in Women Fiction>Domestic Life

Stop by my fanpage on FB and meet the heroines of books 5 and 6: Fan Page of Ednah Walters

These books are stand alone. They are part of a series because some of the heroes and heroines belong to the same family.

Three winners will get:

1st-winner. A signed copy of Dangerous Love (book #4 of the Fitzgeralds)

2nd and 3rd winners. A signed copy of Kiss Me Crazy (book # 3 of the Fitzgeralds)

Each book comes with a mug of either Kiss Me Crazy or Mine Until Dawn (book #2) or Slow Burn (book #1)...I need to check my stash and see what I have.

TO ENTER (US ONLY):

Use the Rafflecopter below:

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VENTURING INTO OTHER GENRES

Writing both YA and Adult romance

“No, you don’t want to do that….stick with one genre…once people get used to your style in one genre, they’ll expect the same tone and level of sensuality in all your books.”

I heard it all but life is too short. I say, go where the muse takes you. Re-invent yourself. My muse slapped me upside down once and I’ve never stopped swinging both ways. No, I don’t mean between the sheets. I mean writing both YA and adult romance.

Is it easy? No. Making the mental transition from hot kisses that shoot adrenaline through your veins to PG-13 lip-locking can be painful. Is it fun? yes. The yo-yo-ing between YA and adult romance does wonders to your creativity.

So where did my tango with different genres begin? I could say…It started on a warm summer afternoon…*staring into space, pen between my teeth*...but I’d be lying. It started with my child. My pre-pubescent know-it-all daughter.

I had just finished the first draft of an untitled adult romance and was feeling mighty pleased with myself, sipping a glass of wine and contemplating a depraved, steamy picture for the cover, when my daughter walked into ‘my office’ with her nose buried in some YA book. No, it wasn’t Twilight. This was before Twilight. I think it was one of the Vampire Academy books. My office is actually a desk at an alcove in the bedroom of my 7 and 9 year old—they love to fall asleep to the rhythmic pounding of the keyboard and occasional chuckles when one of my characters says something witty…or dirty... depending on my mood.

Anyhew, my oldest daughter walked in laughing and stopped long enough to say, “Mom, you should write something like this. It’s amazing.”

Amazing, ashmazing…what did she know? What I heard was, “Why CAN’T you write something like this?”

“Sure, hun,” I responded casual-like but on the inside I was miffed.

Hadn’t I just spent 4 gruesome months with the hottest guy EVER and a pig-headed artist? Visited a speakeasy and walked through the underground tunnels of L.A.?(online of course) Interviewed a real portrait artist and visited a local studio to chat with another?(I really did) Hung out with Hotshot firefighters and drooled over their toned bods? Jealous? Wondering if I really did? I did. All these cool stuff in the name of writing the best adult romance ever. In fact, I was busy visualizing a shirtless hunk with tats on his arms breaking through billowing flames with the heroine in his arms when my daughter interrupted me.

So the challenge began. If I can write an adult romance, I should be able to write YA, right? Grinning like a villain master-minding the ultimate heist, I dove into the teen literary world, read everything I could find. Some plots were funny-I don’t do funny. Others were ridiculous, I don’t do that either. Then I thought, why not go for something different? Write about a love so forbidden hell and heaven will strive to keep the characters apart. Since they’re teens, they can get their Happily Ever After on book 3 or 5. It’s been done before you say? I say no, it hasn’t. Not when the Nephilim are involved. I had no idea fallen angels were going to compete with the fanged ones, but I finished that book and the Guardian Legacy was born.

I submitted the first Guardian Legacy books to agents. I got one agent interested, the über wonderful agent Leticia Gomez of Savvy Literary Agency. One phone call and we clicked. While she tried to find a home for AWAKENED, I went back to my shelved adult romance, my Hotshot firefighter with the body of a god and the artist he wanted to…use …tame…love. I reworked it to my satisfaction and finally came up with a title…SLOW BURN.

So enamored by the family I had created and still waiting for the call from my agent, I started working on my second and third adult book, MINE UNTIL DAWN and KISS ME CRAZY. Finally I got the call. My agent had sold AWAKENED…rah, rah, bring out the pom-poms. Through edits, the waiting and nail-biting, I polished the adult romances and started on my second YA book, BETRAYED, the next book in the Guardian Legacy series.

Is it crazy to switch back and forth between genres? Yep.

Is it fun? Absolutely.

So this is what I have in the YA series:

AWAKENED (prequel to the series was released late 2010)

BETRAYED (Officially book 1 is due to be released on June 5^th)

HUNTED (book 3 later this year….maybe).

The series, The Fitzgerald Family, has a strong following, so thanks to my many fans for loving this family and making the series a success. To date, I have published four:

SLOW BURN (Ashley Fitzgerald’s story)

MINE UNTIL DAWN (Jade Fitzgerald)

KISS ME CRAZY (Baron Fitzgerald)

DANGEROUS LOVE (Faith Fitzgerald)

Coming soon:

NOT YET NAMED (Eddie Fitzgerald…due late summer) 2012
NOT YET NAMED (Lex Fitzgerald's story...December 2012?)
Chase Fitzgerald and the cousins will follow in  2013.

Liek I said, doing more than one genre is not easy but fun. If you've read any of my books chime in.