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Showing posts with label #Time and Forever. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #Time and Forever. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Thursday, May 24, 2018
Time and Forever is Free May 24-26
So . . . Here is the link.
https://www.amazon.com/Time-Forever-Susan-B-James-ebook/dp/B00I3PFF40
May newsflashes.
I'm having a busy month. Writing progresses on Lord Byron's Daughter. I cannot tell you how much fun it is to research sending two people from 1840 to 1940. This book is both a Victorian and a time travel adventure.
I have a wonderful dressing room and six costume changes, but only two lines. I love it.
Last week I went to a table read for a film called "The Untitled Miranda July Project." and was delighted to find the stars were Gina Rodriguez, Richard Jenkins, Rachel Evan Wood, and Debra Winger. They are all such amazing performers. I get to work with them mid-June.
Small world moment: My son, Christopher Corbin, did 9 episodes of Jane the Virgin with Gina.
I met her again two years ago when Barry started guesting on The Ranch and Chris and Melanie and their Brand new baby Walter watched the filming from Barry's dressing room.
Son, Jim is here May - 23-26 with my darling granddaughter, Ella. We have a busy 4 days planned, culminating in a family visit to Universal for his birthday. I can't wait.
Tuesday, October 3, 2017
Time and Forever is September 2017 Book of the Month
Time and Forever is September 2017 Book of the Month at TBRpile.
I am thrilled. If you haven't read it, I am giving away a copy to a commenter who leaves an email address. Next week I have author Sophie Darling on my blog/ Happy reading and a happy week to all of you.
I am thrilled. If you haven't read it, I am giving away a copy to a commenter who leaves an email address. Next week I have author Sophie Darling on my blog/ Happy reading and a happy week to all of you.
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Title: Time and Forever
Author: Susan James Length: Novella Genres: Time Travel, Romantic Comedy TBR Reviewer: Amy Rating: 5 Stars - A Must Read! Heat: 4/5 - Smoking Hot! |
When Lorena finds The Castle, which specializes in Virtual Reality adventures to any time era, she and her friend jump at the chance to play. When they walk through the open door to 1969's London, it's apparent they've walked into more than just a game...
This is such an amazing story. The best time-travel story I’ve ever read! Time traveling back to 1969 under the pretense of a virtual reality experience provides these two women in their sixties another chance at love. Sherry returns at a time to take a chance she didn't take with Jeremy on the tube. They shared one kiss together and that has been her biggest regret.
Lorena, goes back with Sherry to London, however she returns home. While home she decides to spend time with her deceased husband Dave in California. They both take chances that, they didn't the first time around and really enjoy life to the fullest. What they didn't realize is that this virtual reality game is no game at all. I can't explain the twist because it'll give too much of the plot away but it is fabulous! I thought the idea and story is fresh, new and exciting. Both Sherry and Lorena have amazing stories. I must say I am shocked at how everything turns out. I’m glad that they are able to step back in time and go after what is important to them!
The author does an amazing job writing this story with such an interesting take on time-travel and virtual reality, making this a five star read!
This is such an amazing story. The best time-travel story I’ve ever read! Time traveling back to 1969 under the pretense of a virtual reality experience provides these two women in their sixties another chance at love. Sherry returns at a time to take a chance she didn't take with Jeremy on the tube. They shared one kiss together and that has been her biggest regret.
Lorena, goes back with Sherry to London, however she returns home. While home she decides to spend time with her deceased husband Dave in California. They both take chances that, they didn't the first time around and really enjoy life to the fullest. What they didn't realize is that this virtual reality game is no game at all. I can't explain the twist because it'll give too much of the plot away but it is fabulous! I thought the idea and story is fresh, new and exciting. Both Sherry and Lorena have amazing stories. I must say I am shocked at how everything turns out. I’m glad that they are able to step back in time and go after what is important to them!
The author does an amazing job writing this story with such an interesting take on time-travel and virtual reality, making this a five star read!
Tuesday, September 5, 2017
Adventures in La La Land # giveaway.
It's Monday and I had a lovely Labor Day weekend visiting friends in Orange County and then in Thousand Oaks. What I failed to remember was that I had a post due.
Last week Thursday, I signed a contract with Stephanie Bentley to narrate the audio book of Maybe This Time. Stephanie narrated Time and Forever and I love her work. This week I am giving away two free copies of the audiobook of Time and Forever.
a Rafflecopter giveaway
Other things I did last week.
Monday, I had a life cast made of my shoulders so the makeup department could make me a second head. (Next week I am playing an alien waitress on another planet. If the pilot sells, I will say more.) Now I can't wait to see what my second head looks like.
Tuesday, I had a meeting of my romance critique group, did some volunteer tutoring at an after school program and revised my current ms.
Wednesday I drove to Ventura to see All Saints, (a wonderful feel-good movie about a real life story.) with my friend, Don. I wanted to see it because my wasband, Barry Corbin, is a co-star. We both loved it.
Friday I got some revising done and I found out via Facebook that I was in a movie that came out on Friday. I Do . . .Until I Don't. Why didn't I know, you might ask? Because the movie I did with Lake Bell was called What's the Point? I did it last year and I didn't know they'd changed the name of the movie.
Saturday My friend Andrea Loney put on a wonderful book signing event for her new picture book, Take a Picture of Me, James Vanderzee at Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena. Walter and I attended and Andrea autographed his copy.
I also finished reading a wonderful novel called The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster. Weird and wonderful. I am so grateful my friend and critique partner, Kelly Hartog loaned it to me. I highly recommend it.
Enter the Rafflecopter if you want to win an audiobook. Stephanie did a great job.
If you could have done one thing this week that you didn't do what would it have been?
Last week Thursday, I signed a contract with Stephanie Bentley to narrate the audio book of Maybe This Time. Stephanie narrated Time and Forever and I love her work. This week I am giving away two free copies of the audiobook of Time and Forever.
a Rafflecopter giveaway
Tuesday, I had a meeting of my romance critique group, did some volunteer tutoring at an after school program and revised my current ms.
Saturday My friend Andrea Loney put on a wonderful book signing event for her new picture book, Take a Picture of Me, James Vanderzee at Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena. Walter and I attended and Andrea autographed his copy.
Enter the Rafflecopter if you want to win an audiobook. Stephanie did a great job.
If you could have done one thing this week that you didn't do what would it have been?
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Maybe This Time Happy Birthday#Giveaway
To celebrate I’m giving away seventeen 3.99 Amazon Gift cards. Why 3.99, you ask? Because that is what it would cost you to buy the book. Naturally I will be thrilled if you rush right out and click that Amazon buy button. But I also feel I want to give back to my readers.
a Rafflecopter giveaway
In Maybe This Time I decided to follow a secondary character in Time and Forever, Jeremy’s sister, Jennifer. I knew from the epilogue who Jen was in the present. I thought it might be fun to figure out how she got there.
Now I am one of those writers who starts with a glimmer of an idea and assumes the story will flow from that point. I knew Jennifer had three husbands because she remarks in the epilogue of Time and Forever, “Third time lucky.”
That sounded good to me. I know that in real life happily- ever-after doesn’t have to start in your twenties. And it doesn’t have to be perfect the first time around. I love second chances.
Katharine Ross had four failed marriages before she met and married Sam Elliot at age 44. They are still beautifully in love today in their seventies.
My character, Jen had two failed marriages and had stopped looking for love.
I started the story with Jen’s forty-ninth birthday, a turning point for many women. I assumed she would be meeting her third husband—the happy-ever-after one.
But my characters kidnapped my story. I had no idea that Jen’s third marriage would be to her first husband and that they would take me on a ride through time to places I never dreamed of revisiting. When I realized one of those places was to the morning of 9/11, I almost stopped writing. I didn’t think I would ever want to revisit that memory.
But I couldn’t say no to the story. The characters in Maybe This Time spoke to my heart and I had to follow. Believe me, I was delighted when I made it through to the happily- ever-after.
I hope you will say yes and sample my story. Here’s the blurb and an excerpt.
Maybe This Time
A Second Chance Romance
A Second Chance Romance
Their Happily-Ever-After is over before it begins unless they can change time.
London 2001
Forty-nine-year-actress Jennifer Knight would rather eat worms than face her first husband. But when her niece Kat accidentally time travels them to 1988, she needs his help.
Computer guru, Lance Davies is more comfortable with machines than people. He never knew how to handle his beloved, mercurial Jen. But now her future self is here in front of him and he wants another chance.
Jen’s torn. Her traitorous body insists that home is in Lance’s arms, but her heart has trust issues
Jen’s torn. Her traitorous body insists that home is in Lance’s arms, but her heart has trust issues
Can two people whose timelines are thirteen years apart find a future where they can be together?
Excerpt
Jen looked into the face of the man she’d adored since she was nine, and actively avoided for the last twenty years. Lance looked almost the same as the day they’d parted. A few more lines framed his hazel eyes, now sea-dark with concern. His brown hair showed no trace of gray. It was still too long, with the same stupid lock falling over his forehead. She automatically reached to brush it back. Stopped herself. Her throat was so dry. Where was a cough drop when you needed one? “You’ve aged well.” Jen’s knees buckled.
Lance kicked out a chair and sat, pulling her into his lap. “It’s okay. Whatever it is, we can fix it.”
His warm, strong hands sent shock waves shivering through her body. She shook her head mutely.
Lance’s voice sharpened. “Is it Jeremy? Kathryn? Has something happened to them?”
“Uncle Lance!” Kathryn stopped in the living room archway, eyes child-solemn. “Why are you hugging Aunty Jen?”
Jen slipped out of Lance’s arms and landed on the floor. Could this get any worse?
“Aunty Jen says you are a stupid head with a big brain and no feelings.”
Jen rose with all the dignity she could muster. “You shouldn’t repeat things grownups say, Kitty-Kat. It’s not polite.” She reached for the packet Mrs. Flannery left behind, willing her hands not to tremble. “Here are the papers, you came for. Nice to see you. Goodbye.”
Lance glanced from Kathryn to Jen. “Where’s Jeremy? I know he and Kitty-Kat went to Sussex. Why is she back without him, and what are you doing here?”
“We couldn’t get home, Uncle Lance. So we came here.” Kathryn scuffed her foot, now shod in a plastic Jelly shoe, against the wood floor. “I thought Jen would like the machine, but I don’t like being young again. My brain is too small. I want to go home.”
Lance’s hand tightened on the papers he held. “Kathryn,” he said carefully. “How old are you?”
“I’m nineteen and I want to go home.”
Lance catapulted out of the chair. “It worked. By all that’s good and beautiful, it worked. I didn’t think he could do it.”
“You knew? You knew what he was working on?”
Lance’s grin changed to the expressionless mask she used to hate so much. “Of course, I knew. I divorced you. Not your brother. I was helping him with the theory. He probably would have told you about it, had you been interested in anyone but yourself and your career.”
Jen resisted the urge to punch him. One of them reverting to childhood was enough. Too bad. Her boxing trainer said she had a fantastic right hook. She kept her tone smooth and even. “I don’t know when we are, but I turned forty-nine yesterday, Lancelot, and you don’t know half as much about me as you think you do. I am very interested in my niece, and she’s standing there listening to every word we say.”
Lance turned to Kathryn. “I’m sorry, sweetheart. Your aunty and I won’t fight anymore.” He crooked his little finger at Jen the way they used to do when they were children. “Pax?”
Resisting the temptation to break it, Jen hooked her little finger in his. “Pax,”
Kathryn curved her little finger around theirs. “Pax. Now can we get ice cream?”
Tuesday, July 4, 2017
Maybe This Time, a Second Chance Romance is up for Pre-Sale
I am in Portage Michigan, awaiting the birth of my second book, Maybe This Time which is currently up for pre-sale on Amazon.
To encourage the birth process my publisher, Debby Gilbert, creator of Soul Mate Publishing, put up Time and Forever on Amazon as a freebee for July third thru 5th.
Last night I checked before bed and Time and Forever was #1 in Time Travel, #14 in Romantic Comedy and #10 is Whispersync (current audio-book price is 7.49 and the narrator, Stephanie Bentley is fabulous!) What a glorious moment.
In Time and Forever two sixty-year-old women time travel to 1969 London and Los Angeles
Here's an excerpt.
To encourage the birth process my publisher, Debby Gilbert, creator of Soul Mate Publishing, put up Time and Forever on Amazon as a freebee for July third thru 5th.
Last night I checked before bed and Time and Forever was #1 in Time Travel, #14 in Romantic Comedy and #10 is Whispersync (current audio-book price is 7.49 and the narrator, Stephanie Bentley is fabulous!) What a glorious moment.
In Time and Forever two sixty-year-old women time travel to 1969 London and Los Angeles
#TimeTravel #Chicklit
#2ndChanceRomance,
The companion book is Maybe This Time
Blurb:
Their Happily-Ever-After is over
before it begins unless they can change time.
London 2001
Forty-nine-year-actress
Jennifer Knight would rather eat worms than face her first husband. But when
her niece Kat accidentally time travels them to 1988, she needs his help.
Computer guru, Lance
Davies is more comfortable with machines than people. He never knew how to
handle his beloved, mercurial Jen. But now her future self is here in front of
him and he wants another chance.
Jen’s torn. Her traitorous body insists that home is in Lance’s arms, but her heart has trust issues
Jen’s torn. Her traitorous body insists that home is in Lance’s arms, but her heart has trust issues
Can two people whose timelines are
thirteen years apart find a future where they can be together?
Jen ran to the living room to retrieve the papers
Mrs. Flannery was talking about. No way was she going to hang around waiting
for He Who Must Not Be Named. The
last person she ever wanted to see again was . . .
“Hello,
Guinevere.”
Jen froze at the sound of that well-loved, well-hated,
husky voice. “It’s Jen. And don’t you forget it.” The words sounded far away in
her head. “You didn’t knock.”
“I have a key. I’m helping Jeremy with a project
he’s working on. He left me some papers. You’re supposed to be swanning it in A Midsummer Night’s Dream in New York. I
wouldn’t have stopped by otherwise.”
Jen swayed. Her brain was on overload. Strong hands
caught her and turned her around.
“What’s wrong? Are you sick?”
Jen looked into the face of the man she’d adored
since she was nine, and actively avoided for the last twenty years. Lance
looked almost the same as the day they’d parted. A few more lines framed his hazel
eyes, now sea-dark with concern. His brown hair showed no trace of gray. It was
still too long, with the same stupid lock falling over his forehead. She
automatically reached to brush it back. Stopped herself. Her throat was so dry.
Where was a cough drop when you needed one? “You’ve aged well.” Jen’s knees buckled.
Lance kicked out a chair and sat, pulling her into
his lap. “It’s okay. Whatever it is, we can fix it.”
His warm, strong hands sent shock waves shivering
through her body. She shook her head mutely.
Lance’s voice sharpened. “Is it Jeremy? Kathryn? Has
something happened to them?”
“Uncle Lance!” Kathryn stopped in the living room
archway, eyes child-solemn. “Why are you hugging Aunty Jen?”
Jen slipped out of Lance’s arms and landed on the
floor. Could this get any worse?
“Aunty Jen says you are a stupid head with a big
brain and no feelings.”
Jen rose with all the dignity she could muster. “You
shouldn’t repeat things grownups say, Kitty-Kat. It’s not polite.” She reached
for the packet Mrs. Flannery left behind, willing her hands not to tremble.
“Here are the papers, you came for. Nice to see you. Goodbye.”
Lance glanced from Kathryn to Jen. “Where’s Jeremy? I
know he and Kitty-Kat went to Sussex. Why is she back without him, and what are
you doing here?”
“We couldn’t get home, Uncle Lance. So we came
here.” Kathryn scuffed her foot, now shod in a plastic Jelly shoe, against the
wood floor. “I thought Jen would like the machine, but I don’t like being young
again. My brain is too small. I want to go home.”
Lance’s hand tightened on the papers he held.
“Kathryn,” he said carefully. “How old are you?”
“I’m nineteen and I want to go home.”
Lance catapulted out of the chair. “It worked. By
all that’s good and beautiful, it worked. I didn’t think he could do it.”
“You knew?
You knew what he was working on?”
Lance’s grin changed to the expressionless mask she
used to hate so much. “Of course, I knew.
I divorced you. Not your brother. I
was helping him with the theory. He probably would have told you about it, had
you been interested in anyone but yourself and your career.”
Jen resisted the urge to punch him. One of them
reverting to childhood was enough. Too bad. Her boxing trainer said she had a
fantastic right hook. She kept her tone smooth and even. “I don’t know when we are, but I turned forty-nine
yesterday, Lancelot, and you don’t know half as much about me as you think you
do. I am very interested in my niece, and she’s standing there listening to
every word we say.”
Lance turned to Kathryn. “I’m sorry, sweetheart.
Your aunty and I won’t fight anymore.” He
crooked his little finger at Jen the way they used to do when they were
children. “Pax?”
Resisting the temptation to break it, Jen hooked her
little finger in his. “Pax,”
Kathryn curved her little finger around theirs.
“Pax. Now can we get ice cream?”
Lance drove them to Holby’s 1950’s Diner. Kitty-Kat had declared it her
favorite place after Jeremy had taken her to see Back to the Future. They ordered Kathryn a hot fudge sundae and
sent her off to play Holby’s vast selection of Arcade games.
Lance wrapped his hands around the mug of coffee
he’d ordered. “Tell me exactly what happened.”
Jen wished she didn’t know Lance so well. He was
obviously torn between despising her and the attraction which sparked between
them every time they were together. Until the last time.
“Kat said she had a birthday present for me and she
took me to Jeremy’s lab, which, by the way, Jeremy never invited me to even
though I asked what he was working
on. I was quite prepared to show an intelligent interest.”
Lance’s expression said it all.
“Look, I know I’m not a genius, but I’m not stupid. I would have tried
if either of you could have ever gotten past your incredibly superior
attitudes.”
Lance ignored her perfectly justifiable complaint. “Tell
me what happened.”
Deep breaths. That was the key. No use losing her
temper. She reached for her inner Zen and held onto it during her factual
recounting, right up to the moment she and Kat stepped through the door.
“The street
was full of people dressed as though they were going to a costume party. Big
hair. Shoulder pads. Men wearing mullets. Possibly the worst haircut ever
invented. I turned to make a joke about it to Kat, and child Kathryn was
standing next to me.” Jen fought to keep her voice from shaking. “I don’t know
what happened, and I don’t know what year it is right now, and I have
absolutely no idea how to fix this.”
“Calm down.”
Lance put his hand over hers and for once he didn’t sound superior. “It’s going
to be okay.”
“I don’t see how.”
Jen sniffled.
He handed her a handkerchief. “Tell me about the
cards. What happened to them?”
“Kathryn’s
body shrank, but her clothes didn’t. She pulled up her jeans to look through
the pockets, and the card blew into the street under a bus. I tried to get it,
but it must have stuck to the bus’s tire.”
Lance’s voice sharpened. “You said there were two
cards? What happened to the second one?”
“I don’t know. Maybe she left it in the door when we
came through.”
“Here you go, love.” The server wearing a soda
jerk’s paper cap set Kathryn’s sundae in front of Jen. Jen automatically dipped
her spoon into the fudge sauce.
Lance’s lips curved into a wry smile. “Some things
are immutable. I see you love chocolate as much as ever, Guinevere.” He turned
to the server. “Bring us another sundae, please.”
“Stop calling me that.” Jen could feel her face
growing warm. He shouldn’t have smiled at her. It did funny things to her
insides. “Did we really travel back to the 1980s?”
“1988. Thursday, the thirty-first
of March, to be precise.”
“By all means. Let us be precise.” Stop looking at
him. Concentrate on the chocolate. “April Fool’s Day would have been more
appropriate. I wish this were a joke.”
“This year April first is also Good Friday. That’s
why Jeremy and Kathryn are in Sussex with your parents. You are in New York.”
Jen shuddered. “This is worse than those horror
films you used to drag me to. 1988 of all times. Why would she bring me here?”
“I have no idea. The better question is why would
you come?”
“I didn’t know what she was doing!”
I am in Portage, Michigan for rest of July. Best things about Portage? I get to play with my beautiful five-year-old granddaughter and with amazing son. Fireflies. And walks in the park just across Lover's Lane. I hope your Fourth is glorious.
I am in Portage, Michigan for rest of July. Best things about Portage? I get to play with my beautiful five-year-old granddaughter and with amazing son. Fireflies. And walks in the park just across Lover's Lane. I hope your Fourth is glorious.
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Still California Dreamin' and a giveaway
The 2017 California Dreamin' Writer's Conference rocked. Held Friday thru Sunday in the Embassy Suites in Brea CA, This was a four-chapter RWA conference and the organizers did a fabulous job.
The CDWC17 Committee, authors Debbie Decker and Cami Brite from LARA, and Alina K. Field, Alanna Lucas, Judy Duarte, Christina Alexander, Jill Limber, Theresa Carpenter and Jann (Audiss) Ryan from the OCC, East Valley and San Diego Chapters headed up a group of wonderful volunteers. They made it look easy and I know it wasn't. I am so grateful to them all.
I got there late Thursday night because I was filming on a new series for Hulu called Future Man. My character got stabbed with a pen. Which was great 'cause I got an editor meme out of it. Wednesday, Cheryl Yeko sent me back round 2 edits on Maybe This Time and said I had a plethora of missing punctuation marks. She's right, of course. That's next on my 'to-do' list.
Friday night was a fabulous dessert buffet sponsored by Burroughs Publishing. During the event, the California Hookers Contest winner and finalists were announced and called up treceiveve certificates. Kate's Hero came in second.
300 readers. Sixty Authors. Games and Prizes Galore. This was a wonderful event and I plan to go again in two years. If you are a reader and ever get a chance to go to a Barbara Vey Reader Event, they are usually in Wisconsin. Her next event is April 28-30 in Milwaukee. https://barbaravey.ticketleap.com/bvw17/
GO!!!!!!
and one more pass through Kate's Hero.
We cherish all the same books.
The CDWC17 Committee, authors Debbie Decker and Cami Brite from LARA, and Alina K. Field, Alanna Lucas, Judy Duarte, Christina Alexander, Jill Limber, Theresa Carpenter and Jann (Audiss) Ryan from the OCC, East Valley and San Diego Chapters headed up a group of wonderful volunteers. They made it look easy and I know it wasn't. I am so grateful to them all.
I got there late Thursday night because I was filming on a new series for Hulu called Future Man. My character got stabbed with a pen. Which was great 'cause I got an editor meme out of it. Wednesday, Cheryl Yeko sent me back round 2 edits on Maybe This Time and said I had a plethora of missing punctuation marks. She's right, of course. That's next on my 'to-do' list.
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| Bronte, my roommate. |
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| Lisa Kron and Bronte's mother, Kelly Hartog. |
I was thrilled.
Saturday was the first ever California Barbara Vey Event for Readers.
GO!!!!!!
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| Barbara Vey and (back to camera) Robyn Carr, one of my favorite authors, |
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| Amazing gift baskets donated by the authors. |
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| All the authors were wonderfully inventive with their baskets |
I will be submitting Kate's Hero to Jessica Watterson, the agent I pitched to. But first, I must finish the current edits on Maybe This Time
Another Happy Thing. I spoke to some authors who will be appearing on the blog in the future.
And I made a new book buddy friend. Cara King, whose Harlequin Regency Romance is called My Lady Gamester. I added it to my reading list.
Giveaway: The only unsold paperback copy of Time and Forever from the book sale. Or if, you prefer, a Kindle copy which is also an audio book (whisper sync enabled.)
Leave me a comment with your email address to enter. Happy Reading.
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