Favorite Quote Friday

Happy Friday!  How was your week?  We've been having fun over on Facebook, imagining my Immortal Guardians dressed up in Halloween costumes.  :-)

And, speaking of Halloween . . . Are you looking for some good books to put you in the Halloween spirit? Well, Barnes and Noble is running a cool Halloween promotion, recommending horror, sci-fi/fantasy, and kids and teens books, some of which are discounted up to 70%.  I was thrilled to see that they've included one of my latest releases, A Sorceress of His Own.  :-)

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Feared and reviled as a sorceress, Alyssa must conceal her youth and the love she harbors for the fierce Earl of Westcott beneath umbral robes.  All is revealed, however, and passion soon flares when an enemy threatens Dillon's life and Alyssa sacrifices everything to save him.

You can find the Halloween Promotion HERE.

Fantastic reviews continue to roll in for Shadows Strike.  Night Owl Reviews has deemed it a Top Pick!  Here's a snippet from their review:

You can read the full review HERE.

Shadows Strike also received a great 5-star review from Read What I Like.  Here's a snippet:

You can read the full review HERE.

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It's time once more for Favorite Quote Friday!  Étienne and Krysta have been on my mind a lot this week.  :-)  Instead of contemplating my Immortal Guardians dream cast, I found myself thinking how much I would love for Michael Bay to produce and direct if my Immortal Guardians books were made into movies or a TV series.  And the first scene that came to mind as I imagined it was the big climactic battle scene in Darkness Rises.  So, for today's selection, I thought I would share a brief snippet of it:

The helicopter began to move away, strafing the yard with machine gun fire. 

Krysta veered toward a Humvee, jumped onto the hood and, without slowing, leaped into the air. 

Étienne nearly dropped dead of a f***ing heart attack as he watched her fly through the air and dive through a side door, tackling one of the door gunners.

I love that scene.  :-)

Have a wonderful weekend!

Dianne

Favorite Quote Friday #159

Happy Friday!

I'm still going over edits for Shadows Strike, Immortal Guardians Book 6, so today's post will be a short one.  :-)  I would like to say, however, to those of you who are in school or who teach:  I hope your first week back after the holidays went well!

RT Reviewers' Choice Award for Best Vampire Romance Nominee

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It's time once more for Favorite Quote Friday!  Today I thought I would give you a quote from Darkness Rises, Immortal Guardians Book 4.  The following is spoken by Étienne (the hero) to Krysta (the heroine):

"I don't know why you have issues with your body.  The only issue I have with it is that it's clothed far too often."

Have a wonderful weekend!!

Dianne

Cover Reveal, News, and #Giveaway!

Happy Friday!  I have a lot of news to share with you today!  I'll start with this:

I have a cover and blurb for Shadows Strike, Immortal Guardians Book 6!!

The Immortal Guardians protect the innocent in secret. Sometimes the secret gets out...

U.S. law enforcement agent Heather Lane can read minds. But not the future. The dream of battle and blood that recurs every night must be a fluke, some obscure terror from her own mind. What its significance might be, she can’t guess: an attack from seven psychotic vampires at once, only separated from nightmare by an eighth very different immortal. A handsome, brave man fighting at her side, a man she misses when she wakes.

Then the dream comes true. Heather is flung into a war between predators and protectors of humanity, the man from her dreams beside her again. Except now that she’s awake, she isn’t sure she can trust Ethan, or the shadow organization he represents. The U.S. military doesn’t trust either of them. But against an onslaught of evil like the one that’s coming, it will take everything they have just to survive...

What do you think?  It will be released on August 25, 2015, and is now available for Pre-Order at the following websites in paperback and/or ebook format:

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One down, one to go!  I turned in "Phantom Embrace", the novella I've written for the On The Hunt anthology, which will also feature stories by Alexandra Ivy, Rebecca Zanetti, and Hannah Jayne.  I've already heard from my editor, who said it was great!  No revisions necessary.  Woohoo!!

I'm currently editing Shadows Strike and will turn it in soon.  I'm so excited!!

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Looking for a gift to buy that special someone in your life who loves paranormal romance?  Or are you, perhaps, looking for a new series to try yourself?  Then I have excellent news:  The first four books in my acclaimed Immortal Guardians series are on sale this month!  Two of the books were nominated for the RT Reviewers' Choice Award for Best Vampire Romance.  All received 4.5 star reviews by RT Book Reviews.  And all were deemed Top Picks by RT Book Reviews, The Romance Reviews, and/or Night Owl Reviews.  

Prices start at just $1.99.  And, if you'd like my first novella, In Still Darkness, it's $1.99, too.  :-)  You can click on the individual book links on my right sidebar or use the links below, which will take you to my book list on participating sites.

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To celebrate all of the above, I thought I would have a giveaway here on my blog in place of my usually Favorite Quote Friday post.   

Grand Prize

A Kindle or Nook copy of one book from my backlist, winner's choice.

2nd and 3rd Prize

An Immortal Guardians Swag Pack

(2 postcards, 6 bookmarks, and 6 trading cards)

Details

The contest  runs from December 5, 2014 through December 12, 2014, 11:59pm Eastern.  International entries are welcome.  However, if you win the ebook and I have difficulty sending you your gift via Amazon.com or barnesandnoble.com, I'm afraid your prize will be forfeit.  I've had some difficulty recently with regards to sending gift cards internationally and don't know if the same will occur with an ebook.  Hopefully, it will not.

Mandatory entry 

Leave a comment on this post.  :-)    

Extra entries

For extra entries you may do any or all of the following, but be sure to mention them in your comment.



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+1  Share my giveaway on any social media site.  One entry per site.

Selecting the Winners

I will use random.org to choose the winners after verifying all entries and will announce them here on my blog on Friday, December 19, 2014.  The winners will have one week to contact me via email.  (I will provide my email address in the winners announcement.)

Thank you so much for sharing in my excitement and helping me spread the news!  Have a wonderful weekend!

Dianne

Favorite Quote Friday #154

Happy Black Friday!  I hope those of you who celebrated Thanksgiving had a nice holiday!  :-)

Instead of shopping 'til I drop this weekend, I'll be editing Phantom Embrace, my Immortal Guardians novella for the On the Hunt anthology (pictured on the left) and Shadows Strike, Immortal Guardians Book 6 (pictured on the right).  I'm enjoying both stories so far and can't wait for you to read them!  :-)

As the cold weather rolls in, toast your toes in front of a crackling fire and warm up your holiday season with French Immortal Guardian Étienne d'Alençon.  I'm giving away a Darkness Rises Audiobook over at Fresh Fiction!  Enter to WIN and find out why RT Book Reviews nominated Darkness Rises for the RT Reviewers' Choice Award for Best Vampire Romance!  You can enter HERE.

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with 150 5-star reviews on Amazon

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It's time once more for Favorite Quote Friday!  Today I thought I would give you a brief excerpt of Night Unbound, Immortal Guardians Book 5.  It features the hero and heroine, Zach and Lisette, and is told from Zach's point of view.

Zach raised a hand to her face, slid his fingers over her soft, soft skin.  

Her breath caught. 

Dipping his head, he pressed his lips to hers. 

Electric. 

His heart leapt to life inside his chest, ramming against his ribcage. 

Lisette’s heart began to beat as fast as his. 

Tilting his head, he increased the pressure, deepened the contact, and drew his tongue across her lips.  She tasted incredible.  Even better than she had in the dream. 

Heat rushed through him when she parted her lips and touched her tongue to his.  Looping an arm around her waist, he drew her closer.  Every muscle tightened with need as she rose onto her toes and leaned into him.  

Have a wonderful weekend!

Dianne

Favorite Quote Friday #152

Happy Friday!  I have a lot of exciting news to share with you today!

First:  I finished the first draft of Immortal Guardians Book 6.  Woohoo!!  It will feature Ethan as hero and will be entitled Shadows Strike.  I also finished the first draft of an Immortal Guardians novella that will appear in the On the Hunt anthology, alongside stories by Alexandra Ivy, Rebecca Zanetti, and Hannah Jayne.  The title of my novella will be "Phantom Embrace."  I'm not ready to say who the hero and heroine of that one is yet.  ;-)

Now . . . I begin editing.  I actually like this part, though I know some authors abhor it.  I enjoy reading back through manuscripts for the first time.  There's always something in there that I forgot I wrote.  :-D  Shadows Strike came in long (most of my manuscripts do), so I'm going to try to cut about 30 pages before submitting it.  That's always a challenge.  But I think I cut 30 pages from Night Unbound, too, so I know I can do it.  :-)

And speaking of Night Unbound . . .

Awesome news!  Night Unbound has been nominated for Paranormal Cravings' Readers Choice Award for Best Paranormal Romance 2014!!  If you enjoyed Zach and Lisette's story and have a minute, I'd love it if you'd vote.  You can do so HERE.  A huge thank you to those of you who have already voted.  It means so much to me!!

Looks like there's still time to vote in BTS Book Reviews' Red Carpet Awards as well.  Darkness Rises has been nominated for Best Paranormal Romance.  Again, a huge thank you to all of you who have already voted!  I appreciate your support so much!!  If you haven't voted and would like to, you can do so HERE.  There are eight categories in this one.  :-)

I also passed the 7, 000 Likes mark on my Facebook Page.  Yay!  I'll likely celebrate with a giveaway later today or this weekend, so drop by and enter for a chance to WIN!  

While you're there, you may want to click on "Get Notifications" in the "Like" menu.  Facebook has been steadily reducing the number of fans who can see posts from the pages they've liked.  According to the latest numbers I've read, posts on most pages reach less than 5% of the people who have liked the page unless the page owner pays to promote every post (something most page owners can't afford to do).  I don't want you to miss out on giveaways and sneak peeks and some of the other fun stuff that goes on over there.  And, from what I understand, selecting "Get Notifications" will help us stay connected and enable you to keep seeing my posts.  :-)

Rave reviews for Night Unbound are still rolling in.  Here are some snippets from two of the latest.  :-)

Rating:  A+

"When I want to read about an Alpha hero that will do anything for his heroine...Zach is the kind of character I'm thinking about. Wow...I loved him!"

"Everything about this book was so freaking good. I highly recommend both the series and this book. I think you could probably read this book if you haven't read the rest of the series, but I think you should read them all. It's truly one of the best paranormal series out there!"

You can read the full review HERE.

Rating:  5 Bites

"I love this series. I mean, I really do. For realz! I have said it before and I’ll say it again and not give a f*** that I’m repeating myself, it has everything I love in a book. Humor, paranormal elements, sexy steaminess, action, multiple POVs, twisty plot, sexy steaminess (did I say that already?), a wonderful cast of characters and a great world."

This reviewer also provided some of her favorite quotes from the book.  :-)  You can read the full review HERE.

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It's time once more for Favorite Quote Friday!  Today I thought I'd give you another quote from Night Unbound, Immortal Guardians Book 5.  This one features Lisette (the heroine) and Tracy (Lisette's Second or human guard).  The words in italics are spoken telepathically.

Lisette wrapped an arm around Tracy’s shoulders as they followed the others to the long dining table.  I can’t believe you did that.  

Tracy sighed and leaned into her.  How red is my face?  

Remember that big baboon butt we saw on the news a few weeks ago?

Have a wonderful, wonderful weekend!

Dianne

Giveaways Galore!

Happy Friday!  What an exciting week!  First, thank you, everyone who picked up a copy of In Still Darkness, my Immortal Guardians novella that was released on Tuesday!  You catapulted it up onto 2 of Amazon's Paranormal Romance Best Seller Lists!  Woohoo!!!  And a huge thank you, too, to all of you who have helped me spread the word about its release!  You're the best!  :-)

I'll be participating in the Beach Reads in August Giveaway Hop today.  So, instead of my customary Favorite Quote Friday post, I thought I would instead give you a quick reminder of all of my current giveaways.

I'm celebrating the release of my Immortal Guardians novella In Still Darkness — only $1.99! — with a Release Day Giveaway!  It began Tuesday and will last through Saturday.  The Prize?

A signed ARC of Night Unbound (coming September 2nd) + Immortal Guardians swag (two postcards, 6 bookmarks, 6 trading cards).  You can find the details and enter HERE.

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I'm also celebrating the release of In Still Darkness with a big In Still Darkness Book Blast!  If you haven't read In Still Darkness yet, you can find excerpts of it on the stops.  Even if you have read it, you can still enter to WIN one of 8 prizes!

 You can find the Book Blast schedule HERE.

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This month, you can also enter to win a signed copy of Darkness Rises, Immortal Guardians Book 4, an RT Reviewers' Choice Award for Best Vampire Romance Nominee + Immortal Guardians swag over at Fresh Fiction.  You can enter HERE.

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As I mentioned above, I'm also participating in the Beach Reads in August Giveaway Hop, which starts today and will last through August 15th.  Looking for some good beach reads?  Then join the fun and enter to WIN a signed ARC of Night Unbound!  There's a giveaway at every stop!  You can find mine HERE.

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And, as always, join me on Facebook, where I often have Flash Giveaways.  Facebook has changed its algorithms yet again.  According to some experts, only 2% of the people who have liked a page will be able to see its posts unless the page owner pays to boost every post, so if you'd like to ensure you'll continue to see my updates and contests, please Like my page, then use the Like pull-down menu to select Get Notifications.  See you there!

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That's it for now.  :-)  Good luck in the contests!  And thank you again for sharing in my excitement over the release of In Still Darkness and for making this release week a great one!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Dianne

Favorite Quote Friday #139

Happy Friday!

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Only a few days left until the July 29th release of In Still Darkness!  Woohoo!!  In Still Darkness is my Immortal Guardians novella (Book 3.5 in the series) that was originally published in the Predatory anthology.

"Readers will appreciate the rich characterizations and the kick-butt action of Duvall's In Still Darkness, as Richart d'Alençon, a 200-year-old Guardian, woos charming Jenna McBride with warmth and passion."

—Publishers Weekly

If you aren't a fan of anthologies, this is your chance to read Richart and Jenna's story as a solo ebook.  :-)  And be sure to drop by my Facebook Page next week.  I'll be giving away some cool Immortal Guardians goodies to celebrate the release!  Keep an eye out for my Release Day post here on my blog, as well, because it will include a giveaway, too.  :-)

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September 2, 2014

Thank you, everyone who joined me on the Summer Reads Blog Hop!  The winner of a signed ARC of Night Unbound is . . .

LadyVampire2u

Congratulations!!!  

The winners of the Grand Prizes have not yet been announced.

Tired of simmering in the summer heat?  Then imagine yourself instead curling up before a toasty fire and spending a cold winter's night with powerful Immortal Guardians.  I'm helping Fresh Fiction celebrate Christmas in July by giving away a signed copy of Darkness Rises + Immortal Guardians swag.  The contest ends July 27th, so enter today!  You can do so HERE.

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Contains a Teaser of Night Unbound!

It's time for Favorite Quote Friday!  In honor of the upcoming release of In Still Darkness, I thought I would give you another peek into its pages.  If this is your first time hearing about it, I'll just preface this by telling you that Richart is a powerful immortal who can teleport, and Jenna is a single mother who is working to put her son through college.

In the next breath, Richart appeared in the living room.  He wore his usual vampire hunting togs:  black shirt, black pants, long black coat, daggers and throwing stars in every loop and pocket and sheath.  Smudges of blood adorned his upper lip and chin, as if someone had punched him hard enough to break his nose.  His eyes glowed a vibrant amber.  His features, when he caught and held her gaze, bore an intensity that sucked the breath from her lungs. 

“What happened?” Jenna asked, closing the distance between them. 

Looping an arm around her waist, he yanked her to him and claimed her lips in a long, passionate kiss.  

Jenna forgot everything as fire burned through her and every nerve ending sprang to life.  Forgot the blood on his chin.  Forgot the weapons weighing him down and poking her as he pressed her against him.  Forgot her son. 

By the time Richart raised his head, she was as breathless as though she had just run the 400 meter relay.

Richart looked over her shoulder and nodded abruptly.  “John.”

“Hey,” John said, sounding stunned.

“Excuse us, please.”  As soon as Richart finished the husky proclamation, he whisked them to his bedroom in his home.

I can't wait until Tuesday!  Thanks so much, everyone who has pre-ordered a copy!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Dianne

Huge Sale! And Favorite Quote Friday #136

Happy Friday!

And Happy 4th of July!  I hope all of my friends in North Carolina and on the East Coast are weathering the storm safely!  We've been having the most lovely weather here, though it may dampen some families' barbecuing plans.  Dark.  Windy.  Drizzles.  Downpours.  Lots of wonderful rumbling thunder.  Perfect writing atmosphere.  And I've been writing away on Immortal Guardians Book 6.  :-)

To celebrate July 4th, some of the online ebook retailers are running a sale on my Immortal Guardians books!  If you haven't picked any up yet, now is the time to do it!  

The Kobo Sale lasts through the weekend.  I'm not sure how long the Amazon Sale with last, though, so grab your copies today!

Look what finally came!  My awesome new In Still Darkness postcards!  Finally!  Aren't they pretty?  UPS was supposed to have delivered them on June 19th.  They didn't come until the 30th.  So annoying, because I wanted to include them in the latest swag pack winners' packages, so it took me longer than usual to mail them.  Sorry for the delay, everyone.

And, while I was mailing the swag packs, I also sent quite a few Night Unbound ARCs to reviewers.    Including the swag packs, I think I must have mailed about 30 packages altogether.  I'm sure the people in line behind me at the post office were all silently cursing me.  LOL.

If you haven't pre-ordered your copy of Night Unbound (Immortal Guardians Book 5) yet, here are the buy links for it so far:

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September 2nd is just around the corner!  :-)

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It's time once more for Favorite Quote Friday!  The countdown has begun!  Less than a month to go until the July 29th release of In Still Darkness!   Woohoo!  I'm so excited.  This is my Immortal Guardians novella that tells Richart and Jenna's story and was originally published in the Predatory anthology.  If this is your first time hearing about it, Richart d'Alençon, a 230-year-old Immortal Guardian, attempts to do something no other immortal has done in decades:  He attempts to date a mortal woman.  :-)  Single mother Jenna, the heroine, is working nights shifts in an attempt to put her son, John, through college.  So today I thought I would share my Four Favorite John Quotes:

1)  "Is this going to get weird?  Like kinky weird?" 

2)  "If he threatens you, hit him with the pepper spray, then carve him up." 

3)  "Really?  You're going to put that image in my head?" 

4)  "If anything happens to her, I'll hunt you mother f*****s down and feed you your own entrails."

Have a great holiday weekend!

Dianne