Does Anyone Read Blogs Anymore?

 by Rebecca Royce

I’m sitting at my computer getting ready to write this blog for today.  My book, When Hell Freezes, has released and I am uber-excited about it.  But, I really have nothing to blog about. I can’t figure out if this is because I am really just brain dead or because the truth is I don’t really think anyone reads blogs anymore.

It’s funny how things work. When I was first published in 2008, blogging was THE way to get readers to find your books. Invested readers searched out our blogs, read our daily remarks.  We were all making blog groups—authors commenting on each other’s blogs regularly.  Who had the most traffic? 

These days, in my opinion, blogging has oversaturated. Other than an announcement of my latest release, I don’t know that readers care about my blog at all. They don’t find books or authors that way anymore.  No, they read ads, reviews, and newsletters.

So, if I am wrong and you are reading this blog today (and thanks for coming by to do that!) than I’d love to know what brought you here. How did you come to check out this blog today? Oh, and check out When Hell Freezes.  Colt is awesome. He wants to kill Drew, who you met in Wolf’s Return.

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Colt Hannigan returns to the Black Hills Wolves Pack a changed and determined wolf. Thrown out after he stood against the former Alpha, he has no love for Drew Tao, the current Alpha. Colt plans to challenge Drew for leadership of the pack—until he lays eyes on Tasha, the woman he thought dead but whom he never forgot.

Permanently scarred after stepping between Colt and the former Alpha of the pack, Tasha survived for years by keeping her head down. Colt’s return is everything she’s desired, but she wants to live in a calm world surrounded by love, not another battle for dominance, which could destroy the newly-healed pack.

Can Tasha convince Colt to find peace in her arms? Will the Black Hills Wolves pack survive outside attacks if they cannot mend the internal injuries of the past?

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Drew Tao left the Black Hills in disgrace, banished by his father. He has spent the last ten years a lone wolf, living on his own. Called back home, he finally gets the chance to set things right. If such a thing is possible....

Betty Holden has hated her mate every day for the last ten years for abandoning her and their pack. She’s been running things in Los Lobos, and she has no intention of letting Drew Tao slip back into her life like nothing has changed—even if she has never been able to resist him.

Can there be forgiveness? And can he protect her when another enemy arrives?

I was asked recently what inspires me to write shape shifter paranormal romance.  After giving it some thought, I finally came up with an answer.  It’s just the way my brain works.  Every once in a while, I get asked to do something a little different, usually from an anthology I’d be a fool to say no to.  So I do it.  And I have found my creative process is almost painful when I’m not world building a paranormal story. 

My brain wants to control things, wants to set the elements, wants to invent the world my characters live in. I suppose I’m just Alpha that way. 

I write paranormal characters because I’m a control freak.  Kind of like my hero in my latest release, Wolf’s Return, which is the first book in Decadent Publishing’s new series called The Black Hills Wolves.  In it, Drew has had to let go of things for ten years and it has been hell. 

I understand him perfectly. 

Wolf's Return excerpt:

The rain pounded on the roof of the white center hall colonial, a strong, loud rhythm Drew Tao had come to associate with New Jersey in the early winter. Cold, windy, and gray without any snow to bring beauty to frigid air. But none of that mattered. Not when he could be indoors working. It could be one hundred degrees and sunny. When he was working, he hardly noticed. Finishing his task mattered more than anything else.

Drew stepped back to survey the entertainment unit he’d spent the last two days building for his client—a couple in their early twenties had commissioned his custom work for their sixty-inch flat-screen television. They would be happy with what he had created. He’d left ample space for every accessory they wanted and some places for the wife to display decorative touches. All oak, as they’d requested.

He smiled; finishing the piece was a good day’s work, and he took satisfaction in knowing the few useful skills he had in this human world could make others happy. His hands tingled. It was almost time for him to move on. Staying in one place for too long made his wolf-side twitchy. When things started to feel too much like home, he suddenly craved his pack.

And the spirits knew he’d never have that again.

The phone in his pocket vibrated, and he ignored it. Several clients were waiting to hear from him about whether or not he’d be able to work for them in the next couple of weeks. Since he needed to move on, the answer would have to be a resounding no. He could wait a few more hours to send his regrets.

It vibrated again, and he groaned. “Pushy client.” Maybe he’d dodged a proverbial bullet by deciding it was time to go.

He pulled his phone out of his pocket and looked at the message. It wasn’t a number he recognized, but he never stored any names. What was the point? Anyone calling or texting constituted a temporary client who became a temporary acquaintance during his time with them. No one worth remembering—no possibility of friends or family.

He’s dying.

Drew forgot to breathe for a second.  

Werewolves in College

Hey everyone!

How are you? I’m here today to talk about my new release, Sorority Wolf.  It is part of Decadent Publishing’s new line, Roar.  It’s a New Adult story about a werewolf in college, trying to find her way, and the demon who gets in her way. 

Rebecca

Blurb:

Kieran is a demon with a big problem. The person whose body he has stolen won’t give up and fights him on every front. Not to mention he has to figure out how to blackmail the president of a werewolf sorority to appease his demon father. He has no time for lost werewolf Alexandra. But he can’t stop thinking about her.

Alexandra is a werewolf who needs a pack. She comes to college determined to get one. But when her plans fall apart, she turns to Kieran for help—unaware of his true nature or exactly what he wants from her.

 The two will play a dangerous game…and with so much at stake, can they see the love right in front of their eyes?

 Genre: New adult, contemporary, paranormal, erotic romance, shapeshifters

Heat level: 3

Word count – 17k

 Cover art by Syneca Featherstone

 ~Excerpt~

The wind blew hard against him, and his body acted as a natural resistance to the onslaught of a Massachusetts winter. Three months into the school year, November had hit the northeastern part of the United States with a vengeance. Any sane person would be inside where it was warm. But she had come outside, and he’d followed—as though a length of invisible rope connected him to her.

He loved to watch her.

The way she moved. The way she sometimes didn’t move.

He rubbed the stubble on his chin. How long had it been since he’d shaved? A day? A week? A month? The longer he spent with the humans, the more his body adapted to their form, which was exactly what he’d planned and why he’d risked everything to come to Northern Tide University. The more time he spent in this dimension, the less he had to try to resemble them.

Not understanding total assimilation was exactly what he craved, his father had warned him this would happen as if blending would deter him from his plan. Only he hadn’t counted on her. Alexandra Morgan.

She stood staring up at a white sorority house at the very top of the Greek hill the university was so proud of. Queen House—the one to rule them all—where dreams of young girls were crushed on a regular basis. All the female students desired to be Lambda Chi Sigma. The smartest, prettiest, strongest-willed women the university produced came from the sorority housed there. But first, they had to be accepted into the hallowed halls.

Unbeknownst to the human population of the school, LCS took only one type of student—female werewolves. No matter how many human girls threw their best smiles, hopes, dreams, and money at LCS, they would never be offered the opportunity to pledge. Unless they shifted under the full moon, they were no one.

If he wasn’t mistaken, Alexandra met that particular requirement.

So, why was she so nervous? 

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