RELEASE DAY: When Passion Lies and Love Is Murder!

When Passion Lies

It's out! It's out! It's finally out!

I’m so excited, because today is Release Day for When Passion Lies! You can snag your very own copy here or at your favorite bookseller:
Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Random House

Lots and lots of stuff going on today. As always, you can find me on the web by checking the calendar on the Where’s Julie Page (it’s under About on the header bar) or looking in the sidebar of most of the pages on the site.

Today, I’m doing interviews and giveaways at three awesome blogs. Please be sure to drop by and enter for a chance to win!

Book Monster Reviews
Literal Addiction
Books-n-Kisses

And I’m super excited because tonight I’m doing a live chat with Bookmonster Reviews and Literal Addiction. It’s at 8:30 CST and I’m pretty much on deck for whatever you want to talk about. Yes, my fingers are ready to fly! Here’s the link: http://www.literaladdiction.com/author-chat.php#/general/

It’s also release day for the LOVE IS MURDER anthology edited by the amazing Sandra Brown, and I’ve got a fun, nourish short story in it — The Honeymoon. I hope you check it out!Love is Murder (ITW anthology) cover

I also just released a newsletter with all sorts of information in it. If you didn’t get one in your mailbox yesterday, you can read the Newsletter here. And be sure to follow the link at the top of the page so you don’t miss future news.

Thanks for helping me celebrate release day!

When Passion Lies…yay for great reviews!

Status

[The] romance at the heart of Beck’s latest romantic paranormal thriller will keep fans hungry for more.”

When Passion Lies

Shadow Keepers, Book 4

From Publisher’s Weekly. Whee! “The fourth Shadow Keepers paranormal [WHEN PASSION LIES] pits the underground culture of shadowers…against vampire-werewolf hybrids whose acid blood and plague-inducing breath kill humans and turn vampires to dust. … Her background makes Caris the perfect spy to infiltrate weren politics for Tiberius, who still secretly loves her, but first the two must come to terms with their shared past.

Shout out for the weekend!

It’s Friday, I’m almost caught up with catching up, the girls have been rocking at their school work, and so we’re starting the weekend early!

So what’s on today’s agenda? First up, we’re going to do some tweaking to the script for a super-short, ultra low-budget movie (as in, if we break $50 I’ll be annoyed). It’s a project the girls are working on and we’re going to shoot it on the iPhone and cast neighborhood kids. World premiere coming this summer!

But it’s the next event on today’s agenda that the kids are really looking forward to, because we’re going to play hooky and go see Mirror, Mirror! I’m hoping there aren’t any scary scenes as Isabella’s still not quite down with the scary stuff (unlike her older sister who’s more than happy to whack zombies with her dad on the Wii). I’ll do a movie review this weekend; hopefully it’s a fun flick.

As for the rest of the weekend, I’ve got a speaking gig on Saturday, but other than that I’m going to revel in not having specific plans. Gonna do some cleaning, some gardening (if you saw my How Does Your Garden Grow post, you know that the yard needs it…though it’s coming along. At least it was until all this rain!), some writing, some playing with the kids.

And I’m also looking forward to seeing my buddy Stephen who’d coming into town. It’s been a couple of years, so I can’t wait to see him!

And, because it’s Friday and everyone needs a Friday funny, here’s a couple of movie trailer remixes that amuse me:

Harry Potter and the Brokeback Goblet

and my absolute favorite re-cut ever. The Shining redone as a heartwarming flick:

That’s me. What’s on your weekend agenda?

Would You Survive The Hunger Games?

I’ve been re-watching Lost lately (I think I mentioned that in a recent blog post), and it’s a lot of fun. But there’s one big problem, and it’s the same problem I run across as I read The Hunger Games with my eldest kiddo (we need to finish this week in time to see the MOVIE!) and even whenever I re-read Outlander.

So what’s the problem?

All of these shows/books (and so many others) make me realize that if I were dumped on a desert island, tossed into a kill-or-be-killed game, or thrust back into time, I would quickly be a goner.

Why?

Read the rest over at The Whine Sisters!