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Do you like Romance flavored with Suspense? Then you should love Unforgettable Suspense: Hot and Dangerous!

This is the second of 7 box set collections I'll be in this year. I'm calling these collections my Lucky 7--that's better than calling them the Labors of Hercules.

They kind of feel like 7 of the 8 Labors even though I'm not called upon to fight a Hydra or clean out stables.

Instead of mythic monsters, I'm battling lack of time and low energy. The day after the New Year pushed out the old, I started working on my submission for the first set.

A couple of days ago, Paty Jager blogged about how she organizes her work. I'll toss in my cents about staying on top of multiple projects. This is a good organizational tip for anyone overwhelmed with lots of projects--writing or something completely different. Make a timeline file.

Timeline To Stay On Time

I set up a timeline by chronological date starting in January. I listed all dates in order, pulling the information from the contracts: dates formatted manuscripts are due, dates signed contracts should be returned, ad money paid, pre-release dates, publication dates, etc.

As I complete one of the tasks, I strike through it with a bright yellow highlighter. What a feeling of accomplishment.

So far, I'm keeping up. As Unforgettable Suspense: Hot and Dangerous publishes on March 20, I've already submitted my formatted manuscript for Box Set #3, and I'm working on my submission for #4.

Whew! Wish me luck with keeping up with the rest of the box sets plus write my planned novels, novellas, and short stories! Ack! Makes me tired just thinking about it so I'll stop thinking about it and tell you more about Unforgettable Suspense: Hot and Dangerous.

Ripped from the headlines! Eight electrifying page-turners where Danger walks hand in hand with Romance.

Intrigue... passion... danger... love... revenge... romance. Gripping stories offer heart-pounding entertainment until the very end.

If you like unforgettable suspense then you’ll LOVE this collection.

Authors and Titles

SWEET RETALIATION, Mimi Barbour, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author: A gripping story about one woman's quest for justice!

NEIGHBORS AND MORE, Mona Risk, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author: When a neighbor dies in a Florida High Rise, it's suddenly too close for comfort in the building.

POOL BOY WANTED: No Experience Preferred, Dani Haviland, USA Today bestselling author: He'd never known a woman before, and that's just how she liked it.

HEAT LIGHTNING, Joan Reeves, New York Times and USA Today bestselling: Amnesia left Tessa with nothing but questions. Who is she? Why does her husband--a virtual stranger--seem to hate her even as he pulls her into his arms? How can she trust him when her gut says, Trust no one? As her love for David grows, so does her feeling of foreboding--as if something awful is watching and waiting.

SECRET LOVE, Natalie Ann, Award-winning author: Danger is just as blind as love.

SHEER PLEASURE, Patricia Rosemoor, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author: Annie never dreamed her fantasies would lead to danger.

Rx MISSING, Rebecca York, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author: Are Marc and a group of strangers trapped in a mind-control experiment?

SPIRIT OF A CHAMPION, Nancy Radke, USA Today bestselling author: A champion who won’t quit. Even when men are sent to kill her.

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Joan Reeves lives her Happily Ever After with her Hero, her husband, in a book-cluttered home in Texas.

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NEW RELEASE FROM LYN HORNER! TEMPTING ADAM!

TEMPTING ADAM Blurb: 

He walked away from her once meaning to protect her and broke her heart.
Can she forgive him and overcome his stubborn resistance to love?
Guardian of Danu, Adam Dvorak has the power to make plants grow with a mere touch, but will he allow love to grow? An agronomist teaching better farming methods in a semi-desert region of northern Kenya, he has an accident and ends up in the local hospital where, to his shock, his former love Ellie Graham is a nurse. He’d never expected to see her again.

Ellie is equally shocked to see him. How could fate be so cruel, putting her in Adam’s path again? Her bruised heart tells her to avoid him, but circumstances dictate otherwise, and their mutual attraction soon flares to life. Will the temptation to accept Ellie as his mate conquer Adam’s fear for her? The High Guardian’s arrival and the pernicious Hellhounds may force him into a difficult decision as this saga builds toward a climax in the eighth and final book, A Might Chieftain.

Continuing the Guardians’ struggle to protect the sacred scrolls in their keeping, the story is set mainly in Kenya. You will find plenty of action, romantic suspense, evil bad guys and paranormal touches, highlighted by colorful African adventures. Months of research went into making the exotic setting as realistic as possible and the characters come alive. This interracial/multicultural romance contains some adult love scenes. 

Available on Amazon worldwide, TEMPTING ADAM is enrolled in Kindle Unlimited, meaning you can read it for FREE if you have Kindle Prime. If not, you can purchase the book at a low, low price. 

Oh, and you can get the first four books as a boxed set if you wish. Look for Romancing the Guardians Series – Part One and save a bit. 

The series so far: There are seven Guardians, each possessing a unique psychic talent and an ancient scroll containing a secret prophecy not to be revealed until mankind is ready to listen. Vicious “Hellhounds” seek to steal the prophesies and use them for their own evil ends. When romance enters the picture, expect adventure, suspense and sizzling adult love scenes.

RESCUING LARA (Book 1): Set in Ireland and Texas, this 2015 Paranormal Romance Guild Reviewers Choice winner stars Lara Spenser, a Guardian running for her life. Enter Connor O’Shea, a hunky ex-Special Forces biker Lara hires as her bodyguard. Irish folklore and prophesy, murderous villains, and steamy romance make this a wild ride.

DECODING MICHAELA (Book 2): Galvestonian, mind-reading heroine Michaela Peterson is stunned by news of the High Guardian’s murder. She is attracted to Dev Medina, the rugged messenger, but fears he may be out to steal the scroll she guards. Can Dev win her trust and unlock her heart before the Hellhounds capture her?

CAPTURING GABRIEL (Book 3): Navajo beauty Josie Tseda tracks down Gabriel Valdez in the mountains of Colombia, meaning to bring him to the Guardians’ haven in her homeland. Instead, he takes her prisoner. Josie doesn’t mean to fall for him, and Gabriel resists trusting her with his secrets much less his love, but the heart has a mind of its own.

TOUCHING CHARLOTTE (Book 4): Empathic Guardian Charlotte Dixon and Tristan Jameson, an ex-NYC cop burdened by grief, meet at a Park Avenue party. He needs healing and love, but how can a man romance a woman who can’t stand to be touched? Getting past Charlotte’s barriers while protecting her from Hellhounds proves his ultimate challenge.

PROFILING NATHAN (Book 5): In this chilling murder mystery/sexy romance, Guardian and ex-con Nathan Maguire is content inking tattoos in Tampa, Florida, until FBI profiler Talia Werner walks into his shop and turns his life upside down. To save her pretty neck, he must help catch a serial killer. His deadly psychic gift may come in handy.

BEGUILING DELILAH (Book 6): French Guardian Delilah Moreau and her protector Leon Tseda run a life-and-death race across France, then on through the canyons of Utah and Arizona. The two are no spring chickens, but they’re not too old for a second chance at love. Their journey is fraught with danger, excitement and steamy, mature romance.

Lyn Horner resides in Fort Worth, Texas – “Where the West Begins” – with her husband and several very spoiled cats. Trained in the visual arts, Lyn worked as a fashion illustrator and art instructor before she took up writing. She loves crafting passionate love stories, both historical and contemporary. Lyn also enjoys reading, gardening, visiting with family and friends, and cuddling her furry, four-footed children.

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Order can Give Peace of Mind by Paty Jager

Does one of these shelving units make you cringe? It does me. I'm not a neat freak, but if things are a shambles around my desk or in my writing life like the unit on the left...I can't write or do anything.

However, trying to keep things straight as an Indie Author is hard. And it can become time consuming.

There have been days when I spent too much time trying to make a spreadsheet to keep track of promotion and/or releases, not to mention guest blogging and events.  But I will never be a person who can make a spreadsheet that will keep me organized. I can't have everything in one place--it overwhelms me.

I have been lured several times by a busy author commenting on these great organizers that helped them stay focused and on top of everything. I looked at a couple and found while I use multiple things to keep me focused, I can't have it all in one book and flip back and forth between pages or there isn't enough room in the square for one day to put what needs done.

The system that works best for me is:

1) Calendar - I have one on the wall for personal stuff. I can look at it multiple times a day and see what is coming up.

2) Date Book - I keep a date book on my desk. It's open all the time beside my computer. I can take it with me when I'll be gone for more than a day. This has events I'm participating in, guest blogging dates, my group blog dates, and promotion dates. The squares are large enough to write in the blog titles and any topics for those. The edges of the pages have space for notations about promotions I want to do, when to send guest blog posts.

3) Whiteboard - This is on the wall between my bookcases. It is there for me to see all day long. This has Write 3K a Day! across the top. That is what I need to finish the projects I wrote down on the board in December. I have the word Write and the months under it.  The next column is the project I should be writing in that month. The next column is release. The projects are written in this column across from the month they will be released.  And an X means a cover needs to be ordered.

4) Post-its -  I have various sizes and colors for these. I love the small slender ones for marking pages in research books.  I use the next size up for adding things to my calendar to make my eye catch it. And the most common size, I use every day. The first one of the day is to make my list of things to do that day. I stick it on the side of the computer monitor. Then I use Post-its to keep track of things when I'm writing that I want to check later or to keep track of names of characters that I'll add to my character list at the end of the day. That way I don't have to stop, open my binder or open another document on my computer. I just jot it down and deal with adding it later. 

5) Binder and Spreadsheets - I have a binder with pages of grids that I made to keep track of where, when, the price, the format, and the ISBNs for my books. It also has a spread sheet of FB places to promote that I can put the title on a column and write down the date that I put the book there. And I have a spreadsheet for places I promote, when, what book, how much I paid and the result of sales or downloads.

Trying to do all of this and write my 3k words a day and not feel like I'm chained to the computer is daunting. When I take more than two days at a time off, it takes a lot to pump myself up to get back to the grind. I LOVE the writing! It's all the other stuff that makes it hard to get back at the computer. 

Whether you're a writer or a reader, what do you do to try to keep your life in order?

I have a new mystery that released this month. Artful Murder book ten in the Shandra Higheagle Mystery series.

Secrets… Scandal… Murder…

An autistic boy and his brother need potter Shandra Higheagle’s help when a teacher’s body is found after a confrontation with the older brother. Shandra knows the boy is innocent. Digging into the teacher’s life, she and Ryan turn up scandal.

Detective Ryan Greer has believed in Shandra’s dreams in the past, but she can’t always be right. When his investigation uncovers a principal on the take, females being harassed, and parents kept in the dark, he discovers more suspects than the brothers. Shandra’s time at the school is coming to an end, and the killer has struck again.

Universal buy link: https://www.books2read.com/u/bapvjq   

Paty Jager is an award-winning author of 32 novels, 6 novellas, and numerous anthologies of murder mystery and western romance. All her work has Western or Native American elements in them along with hints of humor and engaging characters. This is what Mysteries Etc says about her Shandra Higheagle mystery series: “Mystery, romance, small town, and Native American heritage combine to make a compelling read.”

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