New Year's Resolutions 2011:
1.Join a gym
2.Get published
3.Put Lily in day care
Check, check, and…about to embark on number three.
My daughter was born in November of 2009. Now almost two years old, Lily
is almost talking, definitely walking, and the light of my life. Giving
birth was a milestone in my thirty-year-old existence. With her arrival
came the need to create. Writing had never been my artistic outlet;
instead, I had a background in acting and performing arts. However, when
she was a couple of months old (and sleeping through the night) I took a
local community college class in screenwriting, and penned my first
feature, TWI-HARD, which placed in the top ten of the Golden Brad Awards
Movie Script Contest.
That summer I took a vacation on the Olympic Peninsula, WA, and visited
the Mecca of Forks, home to Twilight (and TWI-HARD). On my return, I
turned the screenplay in a single title novel, which I had edited by a
friend of a friend at Little Brown United Kingdom.
Sigh. TWI-HARD had a ways to go before it could ever be published. And I
had a lot of work to do in order to be good enough.
That's when I became a member of www.savvyauthors.com, and took online
classes on technique, plotting, and craft. In February of 2011, I
received three contracts spanning four new projects and accepted two. HOLD
ME, and its sequels, THRILL ME and ENTICE ME were released this fall from
Entangled Publishing, and my novella, THE KISS TEST, also came out this
year from Cobblestone Press.
I have Savvy Authors to thank for my three-book deal with Entangled, since
I participated in a pitch session there with Entangled's Managing Editor,
Heather Howland, and soon after received the offer for HOLD ME.
Weirdly, although I'd never had a sport in my life, or been inside the
door of a gym, I started to workout in February of 2011, right before my
breakthrough into publishing. I'm now addicted to Olympic style
weightlifting, competed at state level in June, and (because I was the
only one lifting in my weight class) became State Champion in the 53 kilo
category. I kid you not.
Freakishly into exercise (this from a former couch potato), I've lost all
the pregnancy weight and then some. Jiut Jitsu, Crossfit and writing have
become part of who I am, and they come as naturally as being a Mom.
Luckily I still work part-time, from home, and have official child-minding
duties every second day. Time to work, workout, write, and to watch my
toddler grow. 2011 will be a year to remember for me, that's for sure.
I feel blessed.
Author bio: Lucianne writes romantic suspense for Entangled Publishing and
Cobblestone Press. Born and raised in Ireland, she currently lives in New
Mexico with her young daughter.
Formerly a stage and television actress, she now manages a non-profit and
is NM State Champion in her weight class for Olympic style weightlifting.
Long story. Recently she has taken up Crossfit, Jiu Jitsu and boxing.
Blurb:
ENTICE ME by Lucianne Rivers
Heartsick over the untimely death of her mother, Allison Caldwell is
blindsided again by the secret revealed in her mom’s will. Her supposedly
dead father is alive, and she and her two sisters must find him in order
to settle the Caldwell estate.
Robert Rivera, private investigator and former Navy SEAL, alerts Allison
to new intel identifying her father as a P.O.W. in Afghanistan. With her
sisters out of the country pursuing leads, Allison insists on heading to
the war-ravaged country to find him. Robert doesn’t want his naïve client
to take the risk. He knows what danger lays in that godforsaken land…he’s
lived through it. Barely.
But Allison is determined to go, and Robert can’t let her travel alone.
Reluctantly appreciative, Allison quickly realizes how much she needs his
guidance and protection, and how deeply she longs for his love. Robert
struggles to understand her effect on his battle-weary heart.
The path to Allison’s father is blocked by terrorists, traps and
treachery—all demons of Robert’s past. Can he survive a second round with
the enemy and keep Allison out of harm’s way?
Title: Entice Me (Caldwell Sisters, #3)
Author: Lucianne Rivers
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Length: Novella
Launch Date: October 2011
ISBN: 978-1-937044-32-9
Buy links: B & N
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/
Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Entice-
Diesel:
http://www.diesel-ebooks.com/
My links:
Web: www.luciannerivers.com
1.Join a gym
2.Get published
3.Put Lily in day care
Check, check, and…about to embark on number three.
My daughter was born in November of 2009. Now almost two years old, Lily
is almost talking, definitely walking, and the light of my life. Giving
birth was a milestone in my thirty-year-old existence. With her arrival
came the need to create. Writing had never been my artistic outlet;
instead, I had a background in acting and performing arts. However, when
she was a couple of months old (and sleeping through the night) I took a
local community college class in screenwriting, and penned my first
feature, TWI-HARD, which placed in the top ten of the Golden Brad Awards
Movie Script Contest.
That summer I took a vacation on the Olympic Peninsula, WA, and visited
the Mecca of Forks, home to Twilight (and TWI-HARD). On my return, I
turned the screenplay in a single title novel, which I had edited by a
friend of a friend at Little Brown United Kingdom.
Sigh. TWI-HARD had a ways to go before it could ever be published. And I
had a lot of work to do in order to be good enough.
That's when I became a member of www.savvyauthors.com, and took online
classes on technique, plotting, and craft. In February of 2011, I
received three contracts spanning four new projects and accepted two. HOLD
ME, and its sequels, THRILL ME and ENTICE ME were released this fall from
Entangled Publishing, and my novella, THE KISS TEST, also came out this
year from Cobblestone Press.
I have Savvy Authors to thank for my three-book deal with Entangled, since
I participated in a pitch session there with Entangled's Managing Editor,
Heather Howland, and soon after received the offer for HOLD ME.
Weirdly, although I'd never had a sport in my life, or been inside the
door of a gym, I started to workout in February of 2011, right before my
breakthrough into publishing. I'm now addicted to Olympic style
weightlifting, competed at state level in June, and (because I was the
only one lifting in my weight class) became State Champion in the 53 kilo
category. I kid you not.
Freakishly into exercise (this from a former couch potato), I've lost all
the pregnancy weight and then some. Jiut Jitsu, Crossfit and writing have
become part of who I am, and they come as naturally as being a Mom.
Luckily I still work part-time, from home, and have official child-minding
duties every second day. Time to work, workout, write, and to watch my
toddler grow. 2011 will be a year to remember for me, that's for sure.
I feel blessed.
Author bio: Lucianne writes romantic suspense for Entangled Publishing and
Cobblestone Press. Born and raised in Ireland, she currently lives in New
Mexico with her young daughter.
Formerly a stage and television actress, she now manages a non-profit and
is NM State Champion in her weight class for Olympic style weightlifting.
Long story. Recently she has taken up Crossfit, Jiu Jitsu and boxing.
Blurb:
ENTICE ME by Lucianne Rivers
Heartsick over the untimely death of her mother, Allison Caldwell is
blindsided again by the secret revealed in her mom’s will. Her supposedly
dead father is alive, and she and her two sisters must find him in order
to settle the Caldwell estate.
Robert Rivera, private investigator and former Navy SEAL, alerts Allison
to new intel identifying her father as a P.O.W. in Afghanistan. With her
sisters out of the country pursuing leads, Allison insists on heading to
the war-ravaged country to find him. Robert doesn’t want his naïve client
to take the risk. He knows what danger lays in that godforsaken land…he’s
lived through it. Barely.
But Allison is determined to go, and Robert can’t let her travel alone.
Reluctantly appreciative, Allison quickly realizes how much she needs his
guidance and protection, and how deeply she longs for his love. Robert
struggles to understand her effect on his battle-weary heart.
The path to Allison’s father is blocked by terrorists, traps and
treachery—all demons of Robert’s past. Can he survive a second round with
the enemy and keep Allison out of harm’s way?
Title: Entice Me (Caldwell Sisters, #3)
Author: Lucianne Rivers
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Length: Novella
Launch Date: October 2011
ISBN: 978-1-937044-32-9
Buy links: B & N
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/
Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Entice-
Diesel:
http://www.diesel-ebooks.com/
My links:
Web: www.luciannerivers.com
