Welcome to The Freedom Hop.  This is a great way to thank all the service men who have dedicated their lives to serving our country.  I'd also want to recognize the police, fireman and EMS workers who work to help us every day. What better way to thank all the men and women who serve our country then honor this year the police who are out on the street every day keeping us safe. Leave a comment and your email address for a chance to win a copy of The Boardwalk.   Excerpt from THE BOARDWALK When she heard strains of guitar in the distance, her memories faded away. She hadn’t heard the music in days. Now that she finally had the time, she planned to find the musician who brought such sweet melodies to her ears. The music led her to the jungle gym by the bocce ball courts. A few days ago she heard the same Beatles song being played at the opposite end of the boardwalk at Midland Beach/Miller Field. She decided to investigate, walking the path under the tr...

Welcome to Love Lust and Lipstick Stains Spring Fling Blog Hop!  Over fifty authors and bloggers have joined together to bring you some amazing post, along with great giveaways.  Don't forget to end the rafflecopter to win a Kindle tablet, gift cards, paperback book and swag.  Be sure to check out the other wonders blogs taking part in the hop. I love the Spring.  After going through one of the roughest winters in years, it's a release to see the buds on the trees, and the flowers starting to bloom.  Most of my new projects are brainstormed during the spring months.  Spring to me is the resurrection of myself after a trying winter, especially this winter that kept me in the house.  What I love most about the Spring is Baseball Season.  I am a huge fan, especially the New York Mets.  As a teenager, I spent most of my free time with my best friend, Liz at Shea stadium. There's just something about the smell of freshly mowed grass with ...

I am just loving Spring.  When I think of spring, I think of new beginning.  The trees and tulips coming back to life. What I love most about Spring is that my creative juices begin to flow.  It was when I packed my heavy sweat suit way, and walked along the boardwalk on one spring day, a few years ago, that I came up with the idea for The Boardwalk. Spring also brings along the scent of the ocean.  Call me crazy, but when I smell the salt from the ocean, and on a warm breezy day, taste the salt water on my tongue, I am ready to sit down and write. The Boardwalk Excerpt After an accident at work, Brooklyn DeMelli walks every day down at the boardwalk as a way to keep active and have a semi normal social life. She meets up with the regular morning walkers, while enjoying the beauty of the beach and the scent of the ocean. To keep busy she started her own company, making beaded jewelry for parties and flea markets. Mario Morales is the hipp...

Welcome to the 2014 Spring Fling Blog Hop.   The spring has always been one of my favorite seasons.  When the flowers bud, it means summer is right round the corner.  There are three things in my eyes that go with Spring... 1.  Roses.  In the spring they start out as buds.  By early summer they bud into gorgeous roses.  Now speaking of Roses...my debut novel. Here's a peak... Roses The sudden death of her husband sends Nikki Petrino into a tailspin. Three years later, she's still grieving. Mexico seems the perfect retreat to finish her novel.   Musician Drake Dente needs to get back on track and an excursion to Mexico to work on lyrics for his comeback CD is just what he needs.   Can two ships passing in the night bound for Mexico become the love they both need and want? Attraction sizzles and misunderstandings threaten. When Nikki goes missing can Drake find her before it's too late? 2. As March turns in...

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...

Welcome to Tuesday Tales Holiday Blog Hop. I'd like to take this time to thank everyone who has visited my blog.This has always been my favorite time of the year. I love driving around with my kids looking at all the Christmas lights.  As hectic as the holidays get with the shopping and cooking, I still like the warm feeling of the holidays leave me with. I am giving away your choice.  Roses, The Boardwalk or Mystical Wonders - Circle of Friends (Book 1).  Please leave me your name, email address, the book you'd like along with the format in the comment section.  I'd also love to hear what your favorite thing to do is during the holidays. Madison Morina, college professor, meets Sal at the college’s pep rally.  They hit it off, but Madison still has her doubts regarding their relationship. Shari Stafford, a clairvoyant, hairdresser, finds love when she hires a carpenter to do renovations on her house. She has a special gift of reading mi...

Welcome to this week's Tuesday Tales to the word prompt Loose.  Sorry for the hiatus,but hopefully I will be back every week continuing with my new story, "From Me to You."  This is a draft.  So please excuse the mistakes.   “I have to admit I’m a tad bit jealous of your new beginning.” “Why?” “The adventure...the thrill...the newness...” “The newness of what?” “Of starting over again.   The thrill of the first kiss...the first time he touches you...” “If anything is going to be touching me under the covers, it’s going to be the vibrator you bought me last Christmas.” “And is it still in the box?”   Sophia asked leaning her shoulder into hers. “Don’t be a wise ass,” Erika laughed.   “You know how I feel about using toys.   If I’m going to have any kind of orgasm, it’s going to be with a real man.” “Come on loosen up.” Giggling she added, “just think of it this way, it stays hard all the time, it do...

Welcome to this week's Tuesday Tales to the word prompt building.  This is the opening scene in my new contemporary novel called From Me to You. This is a draft so please pardon if there are a few errors.    Boxes sat in the middle of the vacant room on the newly refinished hardwood floors.   The decision to pick up and move had been evident for the past few months.   Erika sat down on the old red beer cooler and wondered if she made the right decision in leaving everything behind.   Deep down she realized she had, no other choice.   She needed to leave the past behind in order to move forward. Standing, she walked to the garden window, parted the curtains and admired her garden. For the first time in twenty years, all the flowers were blooming at once. Maybe that was a sign for things to come.   Erika took this as a sign that everything would be all right.   Not knowing what the future held in the n...

                                 Welcome to this weeks Tuesday Tales.  The past two weeks my internet has been down.  With a new router, I am up and running.  I hope you enjoy my story between Pia and Lorenzo. A few days had past by since Lorenzo and Pia went for dinner.   Pia was certain Lorenzo wasn’t going to forgive her, not that she knew anything about her bogus marriage. Her friendship with Lisa had been marred for life.   Pia could never forgive her for deceiving her.   They had shared every childhood memory together straight into adulthood.   Now she felt violated.   Everything she had shared with her best friend had been a farce.   She wouldn’t be surprised to find out that Lisa shared all the intimate details of her relationship with Lorenzo to Larry....

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?  ...

  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...