Welcome to the Book Derby!

The champions are out of the gate! Ink Jockeys announce their first ever . . .

BOOK DERBY

All books FREE or 99 Cents
TWO DAYS ONLY:  December 5 and December 6

All books written by bestselling, award-winning, traditionally published authors who have broken out of the starting gate to publish independently.  Join us at the ticket window.

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ROMANTIC SUSPENSE & PARANORMAL ROMANTIC SUSPENSE -- 99c

DROP DEAD GORGEOUS

DEATHSCAPE

AGENTS UNDER FIRE

DARK MOON

 ROMANCE -- 99c   or   FREE    

THE THIRD SCROLL

IT'S IN HIS KISS

SEPTEMBER RAIN

 

THRILLER -- 99c

PUSHED TOO FAR

SKIN

EXPOSED

SHORT STORIES -- 99c   or   FREE 

AMBUSHED

WILD NIGHT - 99c

OLD BONES

ROMANTIC SUSPENSE -- FREE

PUSHED TO THE LIMIT

PARANORMAL ROMANTIC SUSPENSE -- FREE

THE FIRE OPAL

DARK POWERS

SHADOW OF THE WOLF

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Paula Graves, Living Vicariously

I've always wanted to be interesting, but apparently I lack the drive or the internal resources for it.  I'm ruthlessly average, a bit on the nerdy side, and my life is so ordinary it even puts me to sleep.

So how on earth did I come to write romantic thrillers for a living?

I figure, the next best thing to doing something exciting is writing about it. I'm too afraid of heights to stand on a chair, but that doesn't keep my heroines from dangling thirty feet from a truss bridge in a hallucinatory state.  Fire scares the heck out of me, but I've been known to stick a hero in a burning house trying to open a nailed-shut trap door to save the heroine.

When I was a kid, my play time was all about pretending to be something I wasn't.  I guess writing books is the grown-up equivalent to playing pretend for me.

I've always thought of writing as a fun sort of therapy, in which I deal with my neuroses by living them out on page and winning. I get thrills through my characters, who get to do the interesting, exciting, and important things that I'll probably never get the chance to do.  Like take on a Mexican drug lord and fall in love with a smokin' hot cowboy.

My December story, "Wyatt" is part of a Harlequin Intrigue Christmas anthology called THREE COWBOYS.  My co-conspirators, Julie Miller and Dana Marton, wrote the first two stories, and mine wraps up the overarching mystery.  It's a tale about three brothers, estranged by time and circumstance, who join forces when the little sister they never knew existed is kidnapped by a ruthless drug cartel just a few days before Christmas.  There's plenty of danger and thrills, but there's also a heart-warming story about a family finding its way back together at a time of year when family and forgiveness take center stage.

 

I also have three indie e-books available now, books I chose to publish myself in order to help them find an audience.  Talk about living vicariously—one of them actually features a former President's daughter seeking help and protection from the former Secret Service agent who once protected her.  Check them out on my website:

 

CODE NAME: WILLOW

 

PLAYING DEAD IN DIXIE

 

MURDER ON LOVERS' LANE

 

 

So here's my question for you.  Do you read books to meet interesting people?

 

Don't forget to watch for our upcoming Book Derby!  Lots of free and 99¢ books up for grabs! Don't miss it!