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Hex and the Single Witch is free for your Kindle April 1 and 2 at Amazon

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Hex and the Single Witch 

Vehicle City Vampires Book One

By Roxanne Rhoads

Anwyn Rose is descended from a long line of powerful witches yet she can barely cast spells young witchlings have mastered. She has one functioning witch gift, the power of knowing, which she puts to good use as a Detective on Flint’s Preternatural Investigation Team (aka the P.I.T. Crew)

It’s a new era in Vehicle City, supernaturals are running the town. 

The P.I.T has their hands full with paranormal crimes. Top priority is a serial killer, who appears to be a vampire, draining young women in the city.

Anwyn is on the case with her sexy partner Detective Mike Malone. 

Complicating things is her relationship Galen, a vampire who looks more guilty than innocent, although Anwyn trusts her instincts even if her power is on the fritz.

Mysterious spells, compromising situations, and a possible demon on the loose make it hard to focus on the case, but Anwyn has to make things right before the human police execute the wrong vampire.

Hex and the Single Witch contains magick, a little bit of mystery, a lot of supernatural mayhem, and a sexy love triangle that will leave you wanting more.

Amazon Kindle     

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March 2013 Bewitching Book Tours Magazine

This month's issue of Bewitching Book Tours Magazine features: The Chosen by Theresa Meyers and an article describing steampunk, Wicked Lies by Karina Cooper, and The Magic Seasons Series by Jacqueline Paige. 

Author interviews with Annette Gisby, George D Shuman, Folami and Abeni Morris, Charity Santiago, and Alex Gulczynski 

Our regular columns include: Tarot in Fiction with Alayna Williams, Auntie Ann's Homespun Advice with Ann Gimpel, and La Mamma Verde green living advice with Wenona Napolitano. 

The March issue also contains: poetry, book excerpts, reviews, and The Naughty Nook featuring erotic feng shui advice from Roxanne Rhoads, excerpts from steamy reads and interviews with erotica authors- Blakely Bennett and Skhye Moncrief

Giving away goodies!

Come join me Thursday at Bitten by Books, where there's always a fantastic party going on. Death, party girl that she is, will be there, too. I'm giving away a $50 gift card to the online book store of the winner's choosing.

The Bitten by Books event is live! It's here:
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Don't forget, if you RSVP'd beforehand, then mention your RSVP when you visit again.

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Visit me at Julie's Book Reviews! Please? :)

Good thing Death's a multitasker, because she and I will also be at Julie's Book Reviews on Thursday. I hope you can pop over and say hi: juliesbookreview.blogspot.com
While you're there, enter to win an ebook of Death Is A Bitch!

Have you pulled any Winnie-isms lately?

 

                    My Winnie-isms 

                    Lorrie Unites-Struiff

 

Do you know what Winnie-isms are? Well, let me clue you in.

They are dumb, idiotic things I do at times. I think we all do goofy things occasionally. Let me give you a few for instances.

These are all “one day in the past few months.”

1.      I went to the post office, parked in the lot, and went inside. When I came out, I walked to my car and slipped inside the driver seat. Something felt wrong. The dashboard looked different. After a few seconds, I realized I got in the wrong car, one that looked exactly like mine. Mine sat parked three spaces down.

I tried to sneak out casually, and I made it to the bumper when a very old, sweet man with a cane and thick glasses hobbled up to me. He said, “Honey, can you help me find my car, it looks like yours.”

 

2.      Did you ever get in the shower with your socks on? Let me tell you, it feels weird.

 

3.      My stove died. I had a new one delivered and installed. I made frozen shrimp scampi in the oven. You know the one where the shrimp comes coated in the seasoning that melts in the pan and all you have to do is pour it over the linguini.

Understand, my computer is in my den and I can’t see my kitchen from where I work.

All of a sudden, my fire alarm blares. It’s loud. I jumped off the chair like a maniac, peeked around the corner, and my kitchen was hazy with smoke. Yep, the butter burned with the shrimp. I shut off the oven, opened its door plus the outside door of my kitchen. The alarm still blared so loud I thought my ears would bleed.  The phone rings. My security company calls me. I yell over the alarm and assure them all is okay, don’t call the fire departmend, then proceed to shut the alarm off. Now, if that isn’t bad enough, I turned my oven on the next day to make a roast for dinner. My alarm screamed again.

Oops. I forgot to check the oven bottom where all the butter from the shrimp leaked yesterday. So, it’s like a replay with my security co. How embarrassing.

Okay, I got over it. I cleaned my oven.

Next day, I forgot my security system was armed and I opened a door. Yep, you guessed it.

I think the man who called me from my security company was a little irked. He said, “What in the hell are you doing to set the alarms off every day?”

Eww.

4.      Did you ever try to use your TV remote thinking it was your portable phone? Lol. I did.

 

This article is long enough, so I won’t even write what happened at the gas station, or the grocery store, etc.

Why do I call them Winnie-isms? They remind me of my character, Winnie, from the “Call on the Dead Club” series. I swear she is my alter ego.

I do have the weird sense humor to laugh at myself when I do these silly things. I laugh so hard it’s ridiculous. Of course that’s after the fact and when my heart slows to normal.

 

Am I the only weird one? I can’t be. I’m sure you have all pulled a few Winnie-isms in the past. Please share one with me so I don’t feel sooooo alone. Or, ahem, idiotic.

 

 UNWANTED GIFT and GOING IN STYLE.  Both in the first download.

Winnie went to the funeral home to pay her last respects to her dead bingo friend Cora.

There lay Cora in her casket, and there sat Cora on a chair next to her casket.
*
Come and meet Winnie Krapski who hugged a cherry tree during a lightning storm. The bolt slammed her, splitting the tree in half. The near-death experience bestowed her with a gift–one she’d rather not have.
Drafted into the C.O.D. Club (Call on the Dead) by Fat Phil Phillips, her mission is to grant the newly deceased’s ghost one last reasonable request. Can Winnie honor her oath?

Well, she tries. But, not before she stumbles into situations that almost get her killed. She’s one spunky broad. Follow her adventures in the COD Club series.

http://www.amazon.com/Unwanted-Gift-Going-Style-ebook/dp/B009CZYE9C/

It's here, it's here. Free download March 7-8-9th

Secrets abound. Bullets fly. Yep, it’s Winnie granting a dead person’s last request..

(Blurb)

Mr. and Mrs. Bickerson are in a fatal highway accident. Both Phil and Winnie work their last requests. Strange that the dead couple want their requests kept secret from one another. Why? What are they hiding?

Winnie works the request and ends up in more danger than she can handle.

Yep, Winnie is in deep poo again.

 

March 7-8-9th. Here, here, get your copy now. It is a standalone.     

(excerpt)

While reading the local obituaries, I slurped my morning tea. Being a member of the Call on the Dead Club, I hoped I didn’t have to do any spook-speaking for the next few days for my assigned district. With my head cold, I felt miserable.

“Good Lord,”I gasped. The cup dropped from my fingers, shattered, and sloshed tea over the floor. My breath caught in my throat. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Bickerson had been in a fatal car accident. They lived four blocks over from me with their twin sons.

What a terrible tragedy. I grabbed the broom and dishcloth and, after cleaning up the mess, went back to the paper. I hardly knew them, but the Mister owned the Bickerson Computer Center at the mall. His wife was a teacher at the elementary school. The visitation started tomorrow and both laid-out in the same room. Yep, in my district. Oh, crap!

Ever since I had hugged that darn cherry tree in a storm, got zapped by lightning, and had a near-death experience, I’ve been stuck with this unwanted ghostie talent.

The oath Phil Phillips coerced me into taking, granting the last request of the deceased for the worldwide COD club was not always an easy job. I should know, even ended up in the slammer once.

My bones ached, and a slight headache throbbed behind my eyes. I shivered and pulled my flannel robe tighter. This drastic change of weather from warm to chilly had me coming down with something. What a ducky way to start tomorrow. Two stiffs and the sniffles.

I grabbed the phone. No way was this gal doing double duty when I felt like death myself.

Fat Phil answered on the first ring. “Yeah, yeah, Winnie. I’m reading it now, and you’re gonna beg for help.”

“Your Caller ID’s annoying. You should get rid of it.”

“Sure I will. Well? You gonna beg?”

“Hey! You’re the president of our chapter. It’s your job to find me a partner. You know I can’t work two last requests at a time.”

“But no one else is available.”

“You are. I see your assigned district is clear. Come on, Phil. This’s heavy-duty stuff and you know it.”

He sighed long and hard. “I guess I got no choice.” Paper rustled. “I see they’re going to have viewing for two days.”

“Yeah.” I sneezed and snuffled. “I guess since it’s a double header.”

Fat Phil’s voice grated in my ear. “You sound horrible.”

“I’m not feeling well.”

“Take a few Coldquils. We gotta stick to our mission. Maybe it’ll be an easy one.

(But…does Winnie ever get an easy request? Find out in her new adventure.

Buy site.

Yay, COD # 3 is out!

http://www.amazon.com/Going-Double-Header-Call-ebook/dp/B00BENUFPW/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1362407313&sr=8-4&keywords=Lorrie+Unites-Struiff

 

Amazon, my download buy page:   http://www.amazon.com/Lorrie-Unites-Struiff/e/B0046DA65Q/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1357417814&sr=1-2-ent

Blog: http://lorriejuly.blogspot.com/  Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/lorrie.struiff

Pintrest: https://pinterest.com/811lms/

 

Come on, don't be shy. Share your Winnie-ism with us today in the comment section below. We could all use a good laugh at ourselves.

Let's try this again. The story is up for a free download on Amazon  March 7-8-9th. Grab you copy today. The link again is
http://www.amazon.com/Going-Double-Header-Call-ebook/dp/B00BENUFPW/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1362673371&sr=8-4&keywords=lorrie+unites-struiff

Hex and the Single Witch is free for your Kindle Feb 13 and 14 at Amazon

Hex and the Single Witch is free for your Kindle Feb 13 and 14 at Amazon

Please spread the word so everyone can get their free copy

Hex and the Single Witch 

Vehicle City Vampires Book One

By Roxanne Rhoads

Anwyn Rose is descended from a long line of powerful witches yet she can barely cast spells young witchlings have mastered. She has one functioning witch gift, the power of knowing, which she puts to good use as a Detective on Flint’s Preternatural Investigation Team (aka the P.I.T. Crew)

It’s a new era in Vehicle City, supernaturals are running the town. 

The P.I.T has their hands full with paranormal crimes. Top priority is a serial killer, who appears to be a vampire, draining young women in the city.

Anwyn is on the case with her sexy partner Detective Mike Malone. 

Complicating things is her relationship Galen, a vampire who looks more guilty than innocent, although Anwyn trusts her instincts even if her power is on the fritz.

Mysterious spells, compromising situations, and a possible demon on the loose make it hard to focus on the case, but Anwyn has to make things right before the human police execute the wrong vampire.

Hex and the Single Witch contains magick, a little bit of mystery, a lot of supernatural mayhem, and a sexy love triangle that will leave you wanting more.

Amazon Kindle     

February Issue of Bewitching Book Tours Magazine

February Issue of Bewitching Book Tours Magazine now available- Vampire Valentine theme.

Join us for character interviews, discussions on vampires in fiction, tarot in fiction, featured author interviews and excerpts, recipes, vampire poetry, erotic poetry, The Naughty Nook, La Mamma Verde, Wedding Folklore and Superstitions from Around the World and so much more

featuring Susannah Sandlin , Milly Taiden , Maria Hammarblad, Ann Gimpel, Laura Bickle (writing as Alayna Williams), Wenona Napolitano, MM Shelley, and more

http://www.issuu.com/bewitchingbooktours/docs/magazine__8

FOR PARANORMAL THRILLER LOVERS

Questions for all you paranormal lovers out there.

1. Do you love paranormal thrillers?

2. Do you love paranormal romance?



How about mystical Gypsy lore?

Well, I have a fast paced novel just for you.

Previously titled Gypsy Crystal, republished now as GYPSY BLOOD, this novel has been on the best seller list for months for BooksWeLove.

WILL GYPSY MAGIC HELP STOP A SERIAL KILLER?

Let me take you into the world of gypsy mysticism and an odd serial killer.

My detective, Rita Muldova, is of pure Roma blood. Her mother, Anna, is a great seer, and Uncle Dragus can bend spoons, but his greatest talents are playing the violin and baking. Yes, he loves to bake so much that he and Anna opened a restaurant/bakery at a quaint theme mall. He makes the best brownies in the area.

When Rita decided on a police career, Anna gave her an heirloom that had been handed down through their maternal bloodline. She gave the amulet to Rita for her daughter’s protection and to help with her career. Not an ordinary amulet, mind you, but a pure crystal star she wears around her neck. When Rita holds the star in her hand, she feels a warm pulse run up her arm, and she can see in a dead person’s eye the last person they had seen before they died. It also sends out pulses of warm for a safe sign and then ice cold for danger.

What a boost for her career. But now there is a serial killer staking prostitutes in her city and, to Rita’s horror, the amulet has stopped working.

Agent Matt Boulet has been trailing this killer from New Orleans to Rita’s city. The tall, dark, and dangerous looking agent leads the newly formed task force to catch this killer.

He works closely with Rita. Maybe too close with the sparks of attraction between them, and they face the dangerous waters together with all the inherent gifts of Rita’s family.

Will they win the battle ahead?

Rated R

I invite you to read Gypsy Blood and find out.

Read the reviews on Amazon for one and the same.

Previously Gypsy Crystal reviews.

http://www.amazon.com/Gypsy-Crystal-ebook/dp/B003B66F0O/ref=sr_1_6?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1355078954&sr=1-6&keywords=lorrie+unites-struiff

Gypsy Blood for today and buy site.

http://www.amazon.com/Gypsy-Blood-Born-Romany-ebook/dp/B008190LLK/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1355078954&sr=1-1&keywords=lorrie+unites-struiff

Let me ask you two questions. With the small writeup above, what do you think you would like most about the novella and why?

The mystery? The paranormal aspect? Finding out who the serial killer is? The gypsy lore sprinkled throughout the book? Police precedure? The characters?

I will give a free PDF download that you can convert to one person who leaves a comment.

Let's have some fun with the comments. I love reading them.

THIS BLOG IS OVER TODAY, JANUARY 19TH. POOF, THE END.

I WILL LEAVE IT UP UNTIL THE NEXT AUTHOR WANTS TO POST.

THE WINNER OF THE FREE DOWNLOAD IS JQ ROSE.

THANK YOU ALL FOR SHOWING YOUR SUPPORT.

NEXT AUTHOR, PLEASE POST.



Sexy Zombie Apocalypse!

If the zombie apocalypse is headed our way, I'm OK with it as long as Ethan is there.

Who is Ethan?

He's the sexy (yes, I said sexy) zombie from my novel NO BRAINER.

To learn more, please the Romance Writers of the Apocalypse blog here and learn more about my sexy zombie Ethan.

NO BRAINER is available from Silver Publishing here.