Category Archives: In The Spotlight

#Author Tory Michaels On Balancing Acts, Dream-Walker Tour

  By Kenra Daniels | September 26, 2012 - 9:23 pm | , , , ,
2 Comments

Hey, everyone, please welcome author Tory Michaels to the blog today! She comes to us by way of Sizzling PR on her Dream-Walker War tour. I owe Tory a HUGE apology – this post was supposed to go live early this morning, and I put the wrong date in the scheduler! Getting the date wrong seems to be a habit – I did that on another post a few days ago. Matter of fact, I think I set them up at the same time, so maybe it was just that day… So, Tory, I hope you’ll accept my apologies, and hugs. I’m sorry that the chaos currently infesting my life spilled over into yours! Hi, Kenra, and thanks for having me here on your blog today. Your topic is one that is a constant battle for me, finding the balance between my writing and the rest of my life. I have … Continue reading →

Author Jennifer Malone Wright & The Right #Music to Hunt #Vampires

  By Kenra Daniels | September 17, 2012 - 9:14 am | , , , ,
12 Comments

Join me in welcoming Jennifer Malone Wright, author of THE VAMPIRE HUNTER’S DAUGHTER, to the blog today. Don’t forget to enter the GIVEAWAY below! Jennifer is offering some fantastic prizes! You’ve noticed how listening to a particular type of music, or even a specific song, will put you in a mood to do certain things. Well, authors are no different. Many of us go so far as to create a special play list to listen to as we work on each project. It sort of prepares our mind, gets us into ‘character’, to live in that world and write what we see. Today, Jennifer is here to talk about the music she listened to as she worked on THE VAMPIRE HUNTER’S DAUGHTER. Top Ten Songs on my Vampire Hunter’s Daughter Playlist So, a lot of people seem really interested to know what kind of songs are on my playlist for … Continue reading →

Author Heather Long On Comic Books & Heroes

  By Kenra Daniels | September 14, 2012 - 1:07 am | , , , , ,
5 Comments

Please join me in welcoming author Heather Long to the blog today. She’s here to talk about some life lessons everyone needs to learn, but some never do, and her book, Yesterday’s Heroes. Don’t forget to enter the giveaway for a chance to win a copy of Yesterday’s Heroes or Marshal of Hel Dorado! Everything I Needed to Know I Learned in Comic Books My mother never saw value in reading comic books. She called it “a waste of money” and, worse, “a waste of my time.” Unfortunately for her, I was a stubborn kid. When she ‘threatened’ to never pay for my comics again, I got a part time job and paid for them myself. When she refused to get me a ride to the comic book store, I took four different buses a total of twelve miles—including a half-mile walk to the bus stops on either end. When … Continue reading →

Spotlight On Dina Rae, Author Of THE LAST DEGREE

  By Kenra Daniels | September 4, 2012 - 12:12 am | , ,
1 Comment

Lets give a very warm welcome to Dina Rae, author of The Last Degree.   The Last Degree is a fictionalized account of how Freemasons and other secret societies set up the world for takeover. Ancient writings foretell a ‘Shining One’ who emerges as the world’s prophet. A murder of a Most Worshipful mason resembles a secret oath. A cop gets too close to solving the crime. Paranoid preppers go underground, preparing for war. Headlines such as the Norway massacre, meltdown of the European Union, unscrupulous media, animal die-offs, Middle Eastern unrest, and U.S. shrinking power make the plot relevant to present day. This book is an ode to Christians, Birthers, 2012ers, Truthers, preppers, and/or other conspiracy junkies who enjoy Dan Brown, Jesse Ventura, Brad Meltzer, Alex Jones, Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye. The Last Degree will be FREE Sept. 27th – 28th! Excerpt: Dwight took off his crown, signifying he was … Continue reading →

Judging A Book By Its Cover with Malia Mallory

  By Kenra Daniels | August 1, 2012 - 1:03 am | , , , , ,
1 Comment

Today we have Erotic Romance Author Malia Mallory to talk about the value of a book’s cover. These days, the cover is more important than ever, since it has to catch the reader’s eye all by itself – no cute store displays, no table in the center aisle, no big shelf stocked with a hundred copies. Just that lonely little cover there in the virtual bookstore, along with all the others. Now, here’s Malia: Enticing Erotica Covers I recently decided some of my covers needed an upgrade. I’d been looking around at the fabulous covers of my author friends and feeling jealous. In fact, I was becoming concerned it might even be hurting my sales. I needed to step it up. So, what to do? I contacted a cover artist who had done some work I admired. She did a new design concept for my ABCs of Erotica series. I … Continue reading →

Grab UNDER GODS by Azure Boone this weekend!!!

  By Kenra Daniels | July 19, 2012 - 8:54 am | ,
Leave a comment

 Under Gods is FREE!!! July 20, 21, and 22, from Amazon!!!  Click the cover image above to go directly to the Amazon page and download Under Gods FREE!!  And please leave a review! We authors like to know if you like our work, or if there’s an actual problem with it. While you’re at it, check out some of the hottest Young Adult Paranormal characters around!   First, there’s Lazarus: And then, Lock: Finally, don’t forget to check out Azure’s Blog for the other characters, and further news and updates about Under Gods, The Devil Wants a China Doll, and her other work. Related articles Angels, & Demons, & H3ll! Oh My!(kenradaniels.com) Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post

Angels, & Demons, & H3ll! Oh My!

  By Kenra Daniels | July 12, 2012 - 10:06 am | , , ,
1 Comment

    Have you ever been to Heaven? How about Hell? Not really? Well, then, you owe it to yourself to take a guided tour! The lovely and talented Azure Boone will lead you on a perilous quest through both realms. Angels and powerful Under Gods will assist you in life or death battles against demons. Well, not you, specifically, but it might as well be, since Azure’s intense first person point of view writing will pull you right into the pages and take you along. This steamy Young Adult Paranormal Romance is in a class all by itself. Azure has blended elements of Christian Fiction with mainstream Paranormal and Young Adult fiction to create a unique masterpiece that will hold you on the edge of your seat from beginning to end. At twenty years old, Levi strikes a deal with God. In exchange for saving his mother’s life, Levi commits to … Continue reading →

In The Spotlight – Author DC McMillen

  By Kenra Daniels | March 30, 2012 - 9:03 am | , ,
Leave a comment

Hey everyone, I know the blog has been dark for a couple of weeks, but good news – things are starting to come together, so hopefully next week will see me back on some sort of schedule! Anyway, please join me in welcoming author DC McMillen to the blog! She’s generously stopped by today to tell us about her new book, The Rusty Nail. D.C. McMillen is an up and coming author living in Toronto, Canada. She enjoys writing about dirty sex in questionable places but has been known to write about other subjects, on special occasions. She has recently published her debut novella, The Rusty Nail, through Rebel Ink Press. She has also been published in several anthologies and will be part of MuseItHot’s Short & Spicy spring line up. D.C. is obsessed with Twitter and invites you to look her up at @mcmillendc, on her blog or on Facebook. The Rusty Nail … Continue reading →

In the Spotlight: Author Gabrielle Bisset on Author-Character Love

  By Kenra Daniels | March 9, 2012 - 6:40 am | , ,
2 Comments

Please join me in welcoming author Gabrille Bisset today! She’s here to give us the goods on the heroes she’s written, and fell in love with. Below is a blurb from Blood Avenged, first in her new series The Sons Of Navarus. This month, my review of Blood Avenged will go up on March  21 at GraveTells.com. Stop by and check it out. I can tell you now, you really want to read this book!   Buy Blood Avenged (Sons of Navarus) by Gabrielle Bisset at Amazon I’ve written a number of characters who stay with me more than others.  My one villain turned hero, Amon Kalins, will forever be my first author-character love.  I fell in love with him as soon as he hit the page (I hand write everything, so the idea literally came out on a piece of paper).  And as soon as he entered the story, he threatened to take up all the air in … Continue reading →

Sorta Spotlight, First Five, Plus Some Temporary Changes

  By Kenra Daniels | March 2, 2012 - 1:36 am | , , , , , , , ,
1 Comment

In Lieu of this week’s Spotlight: First a few notes: These days, it seems the more I accomplish, the further behind I get! In an effort to buckle down and get the priorities taken care of. Thanks to #writemotivation, I’ve had to plan how best to meet my goals, and that’s what this is.  Right now, getting Blood Dragon out on submission is my highest priority professionally. I need to hit it hard until it’s perfect, and get it out there. To that end, some of my posts here will be recycled content from months ago. I posted these back when my blog went several days at a time with no visits, so they should be fresh to you. I’ll still be posting new content as well, just not as much. In April, I’ll be celebrating my first Blogaversary! Gonna try to do something special to celebrate, but I haven’t decided … Continue reading →