Welcome to Love is in the Air Giveaway Blog Hop. The hop runs from February 7th through 14th.  I will be giving away a copy, your choice: Roses, The Boardwalk and Mystical Wonders - Circle of Friends (Book 1).  Besides being a novelist, I also write poetry.  I am going to share various poems with you during the hop.  If Only If only I can reach out and touch you, press my lips against yours, any time, day or night. If only my dreams of you would turn into a reality, bringing us together until the end of time. If only you knew how you live in me, when I’m awake and in my dreams. If only you knew you stole my heart, unlocking my love and desires opening up my emotions that had died. If only you can see when you look into my eyes, the reflection of you and me. If only you knew you were the one, I’ve been waiting for all my life. If only I knew, you already knew. Tell me what you...

Welcome to Secret Cravings Publishing 3rd Anniversary Celebration.  Being a part of the SCP family has been an honor.  The books are wonderful, their author's are sensational, and our publisher is phenomenal. Our blog hop runs from January 15th through January 30th.  I will be giving away two copies of Circle of Friends, the first book in the Mystical Wonders Series.  Secret Cravings Publishing is giving away some great prizes: First Place: Ipad2 Second Place: Kindle HDX Third Place: $50 Gift Certificate Fourth Place: $25 Gift Certificate  The rules for this drawing are simple – visit all the authors on this blog hop, and make note of the letter on each one. Once you have them all, email the author's name with the letter you find in their blog and send your answers to Dawne Prochilo at Secret Cravings Publishing. My letter is somewhere below.   Mystical Wonders - Circle of Friends  (Book 1) Madison Morina, college profess...

                                  A long silence lingered.   The sound of the icemaker echoed throughout the house.   Pia was at a loss for words.   Lisa had been her best friend since grammar school.   How could she have betrayed her like this? Pia stood.   She couldn’t even look at Lisa.   At this point, she was disgusted with her.   As far as she was concerned, her friendship with her was completely over.   Her betrayal had crushed her.   Now she wondered through all these years if the advice she had given her was right. And don’t forget about all the help she gave Lisa thinking that she was up to her neck in debt.   All Lisa complained about was she had no money.   So every pay check, Pia would give her friend fifty dollars and paid her part...

Welcome to Cuddle Up With A Contemporary Romance Blog Hop this weekend May 18th - 19th.  Sit down, relax and curl up and visit the Secret Cravings Publishing Blog to visit the other awesome Contemporary Romance authors.  Click Here.  Who wouldn't want a man to bring them countless bouquets of roses?  Nikki Petrino does in my debut novel Roses .  Who would think their morning walk down at the Staten Island Boardwalk would result in meeting a hot undercover detective, landing them into a sea of trouble?  Brooklyn DeMelli does in The Boardwalk. The bond of friendship is golden.  Four women's lives are intertwined together.  But would you believe that if one of those friends touch your head, you can get a heads up on the future?  Just ask Madison, Cassie, Fay and their psychic friend, Shari Stafford in Mystical Wonders - Circle of Friends (Book 1). Can one man be so arrogant and vindictive?  ...

           By the time Lisa arrived, Pia was totally out of control.   In between blowing her nose and crying, her words were barely recognizable.   They sat on the couch and Pia rested her head on Lisa’s shoulder. “What am I going to do?” Pia asked when her tears had dried out. “There is nothing you can do.   You need to give Lorenzo time to sort through things.   I’m sure he was just as shocked as you were.” Pia sat up and turned sideways on the couch to face Lisa.   “You have to help me.” “I am.   I brought the paperwork with me to go over.”   Lisa grabbed her briefcase off the floor.   “I’m sorry I haven’t been here for you the way I should be.   But this case I am involved in is taking up all my time.” “Are you still working on the adoption case with the mother who left her baby in the ally to die?” “Yes.   We had the preliminary...

                                   Pia took a deep breath.   This was due or die.   Depending on how she answered the questions he was going to ask her, would depend if he walked out her door and out of her life forever. There was another knock on the door.   This time Pia slowly opened it.   Lorenzo stood there with a bouquet of yellow roses.   Pia stood motionless.   The last thing she expected was for Lorenzo to bring her roses. He held the roses out and Pia took them.   “Thank you,” she whispered, stepping aside. Lorenzo walked in, not kissing her like he usually did.   He stood in her living room with his arms crossed.   “I don’t know what to think or what to say.” “I’m so sorry.   I wanted to tell you.   I was going to tell yo...

                                                 Lorenzo’s flight was landing in a couple of hours, and she still didn’t have any answers.   Now Pia had to decide what to do.   She didn’t want to lie to Lorenzo, by not tell him what was going on.   Either way she would be putting their relationship to the test. When she spoke to Lisa earlier, she told her she was waiting for to hear from her contact in Vegas.   She was going into court, with a full day of cases and would call her if she heard anything. Pia opened the two doors of her closet, staring into it with her arms folded tightly against her chest.   Lorenzo had texted her earlier asking her to meet him in Queens at Ducato’s Restaurant.   He wanted ...

--> Welcome to this weeks Tuesday Tales.  I hope everyone had a wonderful week.  Here's the continuing story of Pia. Larry had gotten them a package deal to Las Vegas.   He found some prime real estate he thought they should invest in.   “Let’s face it,” he had said, “New Yorkers either retire to Florida, Pennsylvania or go to Las Vegas.”   Larry had been persuasive, and Pia had agreed to accompany him just as long as they had separate rooms. The first three days of the business trip was flawless.   They both looked at the dozen different properties, but Larry decided against making the investment.   Right before they got back into their rent a car, Pia watched Larry hand the tall red headed real estate agent a fifty dollar bill.   He whispered something to him, that she didn’t hear before he got into the car. “What was that all about?” Pia asked him when he started driving back to their hotel. ...

  Welcome to this week's Tuesday's Tales.  This week, Pia is thinking back to when Larry and she had regular business meeting four years prior. Pia sat on the cushioned window seat staring out into the valley.   Larry had been asking her for months to join him on a weekend getaway in his house upstate New York.    Finally, she gave in and insisted they use the weekend to outline the expansion of their small closet size office into a free standing building on Hylan Boulevard.   While Larry walked across the yard in the snow to replenish the wood for the fireplace, Pia watched, second-guessing her decision to join him. She had met Larry in a business class in college.   They started talking and hit it off when they realized they both wanted to start a real estate business.   After his persuasion, she decided to join forces with him.   She had the business sense and Larry had the collateral to get the business up and ru...

Welcome to this weeks Hump Day Hook.  This is from my WIP Mystical Wonders - The Right Call.   Shari kept her eyes on the envelope.   Madison took her time removing the contents, which were wrapped in red tissue paper.   Slowly she removed the paper, slid out a piece of a puzzle and an index card.   Holding up the piece she turned it from front to back before placing it down on the table.   Next she unfolded the index card.   Her eyes popped open and the yellow card fell from between her fingers.    CLICK HERE TO RETURN TO HUMP DAY HOOK BLOG   CLICK HERE TO VISIT TO MY WEBSITE

Welcome to this week's Hump Day Hook.  This excerpt is from my WIP Mystical Wonders - Book 3 - The Right Call. --> “It was.   I was the kid that every team wanted. Not to sound vain, but my quick success, put me on a fast road that I wasn’t ready for at all.”   Scott lifted his knife and cut his meat.   “I went from a half a season in the minor leagues right to the Penguins, where I’ve been their number one pitcher for the past twenty-six years.   But now, my future is in the hands of the upper brass, or shall I say me.”   Scott took a bite of his steak.   He lifted up his knife.   “Awesome.   Go ahead eat.” CLICK HERE TO RETURN TO HUMP DAY HOOK BLOG CLICK HERE TO VISIT MY WEBSITE