You know how I love small town love stories! Well, here's some neat news from my author friend, Tracy March. Her new series set in the small town of Thistle Bend, Colorado, will be out this fall. Random House just did the cover reveal for book one of the series. I love this cover, don't you? Follow Tracy on Facebook or on her Amazon author page so you don't miss a thing. Or better yet - pre-order SHOULD'VE SAID NO right now! #TracyMarch #Smalltownromance #series #lovestory

LIFE AFTER PERFECT came out on May 19th and it's enjoying it's been the #1 Women's Divorce Fiction since release day. If you haven't checked out the story of Katherine Barclift - check out the trailer and see what you think! See what other readers are saying about this book...then get your own copy. Available in print - digital and audio formats! http://amzn.to/1QXGY4X #NewRelease #WomensFiction #Smalltown #secondchances #heartbreak #Newbeginnings #Happyeverafter #BootCreek #NancyNaigle #USATodayBestseller #BookTrailer

Hurry - it's a short running giveaway that ends at midnight July 6th. https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/144842-sand-dollar-cove 8 copies of my new beach read ~ SAND DOLLAR COVE. Add it to your bookshelf on goodreads.com, then enter for your chance to win at https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/144842-sand-dollar-cove . Growing up, Elli Eversol spent nearly every summer in Sand Dollar Cove at her grandparents’ beach house, working at their shops on the old fishing pier. After a hurricane and a Nor’easter damage the pier and the shops nearly beyond repair, Elli returns to town to help rebuild. She even launches the Buy-A-Board campaign to raise funds for the plight. Holden Moore is back in Sand Dollar Cove, too. He broke Elli’s heart years ago, but he’s pulling every Romeo trick in the book to win her back now. Yet there’s more to Holden’s agenda, and it doesn’t include saving the pier. Brody Rankin is eager to scout the location for his company’s new mega-warehouse near a quaint North Carolina beach town. The online request for handyman assistance for the Buy-A-Board campaign in Sand Dollar Cove gives him the perfect reason to head to the east coast, check out the area, and contribute to a good cause. He’d only have to leave half of his playboy-surfer lifestyle behind for a little while—there are plenty of waves in the Atlantic. But when he meets Elli Eversol, she really gets the surf up, and he’s tempted to toss his playboy ways out with the tide. #CONTEST #win #books #beachread #SandDollarCove #NancyNaigle #Contemporaryromance

Happy 4th of July! I love this holiday. Let freedom ring and everyone celebrate that which so many have fought to win us! I have a 4th of July celebration in Sweet Tea and Secrets - the first book in the Adams Grove Series. In honor of 4th of July, I thought I'd share just a snippet of the festivities. Hope you enjoy it. Hugs and happy Independence Day! May your day sparkle! *****************SWEET TEA AND SECRETS EXCERPT******************* Folks picked their spots for the fireworks, and parents quieted impatient children with sparklers. Some children ran aimlessly in circles, others swept the sparklers in the sky, writing their names or making loop-de-loops. The sun dipped lower. In the next fifteen minutes or so it would be dark. Chaz waved as he walked in her direction. “Hey, Jill. I thought that was you when I looked over here earlier. Mind if I join ya’?” “Wouldn’t be the same without you.” She patted a spot on the blanket. He took a sparkler out of his back pocket, lit the end, and handed the sizzling stick to her. “For me? Thanks.” She accepted the sparkly stick, and immediately started writing her name in the air. “You’re good at that,” teased Chaz. “Just like riding a bike.” The sparkler began to sputter. “Good thing I have a short name. These sure don’t last as long as they used to.” Connor walked back up just as the park lights began to shine. Everyone cheered and whistled. The sound grew louder by the second and for a full minute, the cheering continued. Then, with a thunk, the lights went off and the crowd fell silent. Anticipation filled the air, and except for nervous giggles—everything was quiet. A moment later, the ssphhhhp of the first rocket soared high into the sky over the lake. Then nothing for a two-count before the silence was broken with a series of aerial repeaters. Pop, pop-pop-pop, snap, pop, followed by a huge glowing red chrysanthemum that illuminated the starry summer night. As the fire began to fade, hundreds of sparkling flickers streamed down like a waterfall, and that was just the beginning. “Oooooh.” Whizz, ssphhhhp, shwoosh. The next three fireworks went up together and exploded into the sky. They dazzled the crowd in red, white and blue. “Aaah.” A loud whistler followed by a bright white bouquet of flowering lights drifted so slow it left behind a smoky fog in its trail. From there the show got bigger, faster and higher. Everyone oohed and ahhed. A loud series of roman candles burst in the sky one after the other, over and over. The reports echoed, jolting everyone by surprise. Locals knew the extravaganza was getting close to the end of the bright display when the high school band began playing God Bless America. Everyone sang along, thankful for the day, the community, and the country they were so lucky to live in. The finale began to burst and pop in the sky above them in time with the music. The last flicker faded with the last note. Smoke hung heavy in the humid night air. Like magic, the park lights came back on. Everyone was still in awe of the beautiful sight and tired from the events of the day. Like an army of ants, families poured into the parking lot to sit in traffic to get home. Bugs gathered near the bright lights, starring in a show all their own. Small bats soared through the middle of the bugs, swallowing them up. Jill stood, trying to burn off the nervous energy building up inside her. What seemed like a perfect plan earlier now left her sad. Pearl should be here. So many things would never be the same. She half listened to Chaz and Connor as they talked with people they recognized and shared town gossip. Whoever started the rumor that women loved to gossip must’ve been a man, because it was clear the men in this town didn’t miss much. Jill’s eyes were set on the roped off pyro-technicians area. Only the fire team was allowed back there, and Garrett had been a part of that elite group for years. I hope your holiday is full of fun, food, family and fireworks. Nancy and the 2016 release... Barbecue and Bad News. Also enjoy these other new books from Nancy. Life After Perfect Sand Dollar Cove #IndependenceDay #Happy4thofJuly #Books #AdamsGroveSeries #NancyNaigle #lovestories #sparklers #fireworks

Help me shout out a HAPPY RELEASE DAY for my newest book, SAND DOLLAR COVE . Ready for a beachy read? This might be your cup of tea. Iced tea, that is! Growing up, Elli Eversol spent nearly every summer in Sand Dollar Cove at her grandparents’ beach house, working at their shops on the old fishing pier. After a hurricane and a Nor’easter damage the pier and the shops nearly beyond repair, Elli returns to town to help rebuild. She even launches the Buy-A-Board campaign to raise funds for the plight. Holden Moore is back in Sand Dollar Cove, too. He broke Elli’s heart years ago, but he’s pulling every Romeo trick in the book to win her back now. Yet there’s more to Holden’s agenda, and it doesn’t include saving the pier. Brody Rankin is eager to scout the location for his company’s new mega-warehouse near a quaint North Carolina beach town. The online request for handyman assistance for the Buy-A-Board campaign in Sand Dollar Cove gives him the perfect reason to head to the east coast, check out the area, and contribute to a good cause. He’d only have to leave half of his playboy-surfer lifestyle behind for a little while—there are plenty of waves in the Atlantic. But when he meets Elli Eversol, she really gets the surf up, and he’s tempted to toss his playboy ways out with the tide. Order your copy today --- available in kindle format or paperback. #romance #beach #contemporaryromance #nancynaigle #smalltown #family #community #newrelease #bookrelease

How It Works This challenge starts on July 2nd, and ends on July 30th, so you have a month to get reading. PERSUADE US . . . We're all different and what we like to read is no exception. However, sometimes it's fun to change things up a bit and try something new. We're going to help with that, by giving the first 200 lucky readers to ask us an ebook for free. All we ask is that the book they request is in a genre they don't read, or read a long time ago and drifted out of. Each participating author will offer ten books for free (we'll give you a list of what's available). But if you don't manage to get in fast enough and there aren't any books left, don't worry, you're still eligible for the Take a Walk on the Wild Side contest. Find a book in a new-to-you genre, whether at the library, from a friend, or if you want to support the wonderful authors involved in this contest by buying one of their books, so much the better! Read the book—the contest runs for four weeks, so you've got time—then write a paragraph on the contest's Facebook group about what surprised and delighted you about the genre you just read. You can also include a short paragraph on the genre you usually read and why you love it. Help convince other readers to give a new genre a try! We're going to encourage people to like the paragraphs that inspired them to read a new genre, and the five entries with the most likes will go to a well-known book blogger (with names redacted) to choose the winner of the $200 gift card. BE A CHATTERBOX . . . This is one place where being a chatterbox will get you sent to the top of the class, not to detention. We want people talking about the books they're reading, swopping recommendations, and generally connecting over new genres, so we've got a $50 gift card prize to the person who interacts the most on the Facebook group . Good luck, everyone, this is going to be a lot of fun! And here are the amazing authors involved in sponsoring this contest: Marilyn Brant Robin Bielman Kelsey Browning Zoe Dawson Michelle Diener Cynthia Eden Jennifer Estep Misty Evans Maggie Mae Gallagher Lori Handeland Mary Hughes Shona Husk Rachel Johns Dale Mayer Nancy Naigle Christina Phillips Edie Ramer​ Elle J Rossi Barbara Samuel Therese Walsh We'll be posting a profile on each author and the books they have made eligible for the giveaway on the Read a New Genre Facebook group on July 2nd. As stated above, the first ten people to request the books on offer will get them for free, thereafter, participants will have to source their own books, either from the library, a friend, or if they'd like to support one of the authors sponsoring this contest, so much the better! Only one free book request per person, so as many readers as possible can benefit. Hugs and happy summer reading! Share this with a friend ~ Mark your calendar! #contest #giveaway #genrefiction #read #booklovers #author

It's so darn hot and humid out that I swear my feet got hot right through my shoes just standing on the asphalt! Or as Pearl said in Sweet Tea and Secrets - "...it's so hot it's like walkin' into a wet sweater." If you've read the Adams Grove series you know folks in that town love a good glass of sweet tea. But there's an art to making good sweet tea. Straight from the back of Sweet Tea and Secrets...here's Pearl's Famous Sweet Tea Recipe. ENJOY! PEARL'S FAMOUS SWEET TEA You’ll want to make this tea by the gallon, and please keep this recipe our little secret. Glass jugs make all the difference, and I swear a good one with a spigot is the best way to go. Something about the way the tea splashes in the glass over the ice is just a little miracle all to itself. The secret is all in the steep, ya see. Like anything that’s worthwhile, you have to give it the time to mature, to marry up and merge to its full potential. Love is like that ya know. Anyway, all tea has a temperature point of perfection, and you really have to get that water boiling if you want to get it right. Here we go! Place 3 family-sized tea bags (or 10 regular-sized tea bags) into your glass jug. Boil up a pot of water. (Be sure it’s less than a gallon of water because you’ll need to leave a little room for that cup and a half of sugar you’ll be adding!) Once the water has come to a full rolling boil, gently pour that bubbling hot water right over your tea bags in the jug. Steep for 3–5 minutes depending on how strong you like your tea. Me? I like mine nice and dark like a summer tan. I go for the whole 5 minutes. Stir. This is important. Stir in one direction. You don’t want to unstir it, now, do you? Remove the tea bags with a slotted spoon. Now, swish in 1.5 heaping cups of sugar into the hot tea and stir until dissolved. Top off the jug with some cold water or ice cubes. Chill on the top shelf of your fridge. The colder the better. Enjoy y’all! #AdamsGrove #SweetTea #Southern #romance #mystery #ContemporaryRomance #nancynaigle

So exciting! NPR says, "...as the days get longer (and the nights get hotter), we think it's the perfect time to celebrate romance." And they are bringing back their reader poll. Hop on over right now and vote for up to 5 of your favorite romances OR romance series ( like the Adams Grove Novels, for example ). Oh! And they don't have to be brand new releases either. All the details are right here --> http://www.npr.org/2015/06/11/412047700/tell-us-about-your-favorite-romances-it-s-the-npr-books-summer-of-love VOTE NOW! #Vote #ContemporaryRomance #AdamsGroveNovels #Top100 #readerpoll #NancyNaigle #RobynCarr #BrendaNovak #KelseyBrowning #TracyMarch

COME ON OVER! Join me at NEW IN BOOKS where I'm hanging out with Taylor and talking about my latest release, LIFE AFTER PERFECT, and other book stuff. Plus...if you come on over and click the retweet button...you might just win an autographed copy of LIFE AFTER PERFECT. It's going to look so pretty on someone's bookshelf. #PassItOn http://newinbooks.com/interview-with-nancy-naigle-author-of-life-after-perfect/ Thanks for your support and for taking a moment to leave your review on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Goodreads. Y'all are THE BEST! Hugs and happy reading~ #NewInBooks #LifeAfterPerfect #Contest #AutographedBook #Newrelease #BootCreek #NancyNaigle

Sara at Harlequin Junkies just posted her BEST OF MAY article, and I'm so tickled to share that LIFE AFTER PERFECT was one of her BEST OF picks! Here's what she had to say: LIFE AFTER PERFECT by Nancy Naigle is a second chance love story. It is a story set in a small town, it is about finding love after love has been lost. It is about finding yourself and learning to trust again. I loved the relationship between Derek and Katy. Both have been burned before, but both of them are willing to risk being burned again because the attraction that they feel for each other is something that neither of them can deny. I love small town love stories. The secondary characters in this book are just to wonderful that you want to embrace the town and move right in. I would recommend Life After Perfect by Nancy Naigle to anyone that enjoys a small town second chance love story. (Montlake, May 19) Check out the full article and all SIX titles here . #reviews #bestsellers #womensfiction #nancynaigle #LifeAfterPerfect #LifeAfterPerfect #HarlequinJunkie #RomanceatRandom #BestBookPicks

For Immediate Release Winston-Salem, NC – (May 31, 2015) – In the new world of publishing, authors like Nancy Naigle and Kelsey Browning are doing more than sitting behind their keyboards crafting cozy mysteries, romances, and women’s fiction stories for their readers. Now, they have the pleasure of interacting with fans face-to-face at one of the largest reader events in the world. Naigle and Browning participated in several book signings during Book Expo America 2015. Naigle, a USA Today Bestseller, signed Barbecue and Bad News in the Mystery Writers of American booth and her newest release from Montlake Romance, Life After Perfect, at the Romance Writers of America (RWA) booth. Browning also signed with RWA, but readers didn’t walk away with a physical book. Instead, she used the Autography iPad app to autograph digital copies of Designed for Love, the fourth book in her sexy contemporary romance series published by Carina Press, part of Harlequin Enterprises. When the reader downloads the ebook, Browning’s signature will be part of it, just like a physical autograph. Fans were excited about the technology. In addition, both authors signed multiple titles during BookCon, a two-day event specifically for readers. They gave away hundreds of books, both paperback and digital. One of the titles they offered was In For a Penny, the first book in their co-authored, Amazon-bestselling Granny Series. These cozy mysteries feature kick-butt mature women serving up southern-style justice in unlikely situations. Naigle says, “We describe The Granny Series as ‘The Golden Girls meets Dirty Harry.’ Only difference is these women are over 50, female, and from the South. Honey, these are not your momma’s grannies.” Browning adds, “After writing three books in this series, we’ve honestly been surprised by these feisty women more than once. Their back stories, their joys, their losses, their depths. As a forty-something woman, I now have role models for the kind of gal I want to be in a few years.” Some of the themes the series treats with gentle humor are online dating, empowerment, healthy living, loss of spouse, friendship, staying productive, and just plain old having fun. What readers are saying about these books: “Get your tissues ready…because you will laugh until you cry.” - Amazon review of In For a Penny “…shows you just what a bunch of strong southern women can do when they set their minds to it. Southern, sassy and full of fun.” - Amazon review of Fit to Be Tied “Kelsey and Nancy work magic in this book. The southernisms, grannyisms, and great mysteries make this a must-read book.” - Amazon review of In High Cotton Naigle and Browning are already making plans for the 2016 Book Expo America and BookCon to be held in Chicago May 11 – 15 at McCormick Place. Browning, a Texas native, makes her home in Georgia with her family. You can find our more about her at: http://www.kelseybrowning.com. Naigle, a Virginia native, writes love stories from the crossroad of small town and suspense. Her website is http://www.nancynaigle.com. For further information or media arrangements, please contact: Assistant and Publicist: Beth Kirkpatrick Beth@CrossroadsPublishingHouse.com Or pick up media sheets from www.TheGrannySeries.com or their personal websites. #PressRelease #NancyNaigle #KelseyBrowning #BookExpoAmerica #BookExpoAmerica #TheBookCon #Digital #print #LifeAfterPerfect #LifeAfterPerfect

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