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Showing posts with label Donya Lynne. Show all posts
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Monday, March 25, 2013
Donya Lynne's Rise of the Fallen 1 year Anniversary Tour (Giveaway)
RISE
OF THE FALLEN
All The Kings Men, #1
All The Kings Men, #1
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In
the streets of Chicago exists an uneasy, centuries-old truce between vampires
and their distant cousins, a race of shifters called drecks. Vampire
enforcement agency, All the King’s Men (AKM), is charged with maintaining the
truce, but when volatile enforcer Micah Black loses his mate and falls into the
biological agony that results from the broken bond, he tests the boundaries of
the truce by seeking out Apostle, a leader in the dreck community. Micah
wants Apostle to kill him, a request Apostle is more than happy to
fulfill.
When
ex-Army medic Samantha Garrett inadvertently disrupts the plot and saves
Micah’s life, a chain reaction sets Micah’s heart on a collision course with
Sam’s, but he will have to protect her from Apostle and her obsessive
ex-husband, Steve, if they will have a chance at forever. Can Micah hold
his emotions together to keep Sam alive?
About
Donya:
Donya
resides in Indiana, with her husband and a small zoo of cats and dogs. In fact,
her writing buddy, Lucky, might become more famous than she is, based on the
feedback the ever-present feline receives on her Facebook page.
As a little
girl, Donya always had a book in her hand. As she got older, the books became
pens and notebooks, which she filled with stories and poetry. For as long as
she remembers, she has been writing and dreaming up stories. Seems writing was
her destiny.
Donya loves
music and often finds inspiration for her stories in the wide range of music
she listens to. Nothing like a little Korn to propel the angst in a scene, or
Enya to evoke softer and more romantic storylines.
Connect with Donya:
Donya Lynne's
RISE OF THE FALLEN
1 year Anniversary Blog Tour
3/18 - Pimpin' Reads
3/19 - I Smell Sheep
3/21 - Books-n-Kisses
3/22 - Urban Girl Reader
3/23 - Ramblings From This Chick
3/24 - Jeep Diva
3/25 - Book Lovin' Mamas
3/26 - The Reading Cafe
3/27 - Mad Hatter Reads
3/28 - Cocktails and Books
3/29 - My Secret Romance
3/31 - Riverina Romantics
4/01 - GraveTells
4/02 - Reading Between The Wines
4/03 - Alexx Mom Cat's Gateway
4/04 - Paranormal Book Club
4/05 - Book Monster Reviews / Literal Addiction
4/06 - Page Flipperz
Rise of the Fallen, book one in the All The King's Men
series, is celebrating its one year anniversary. I'm so proud of my little book
that could for earning the following accolades in its first year:
·
USA Today Recommended Read
·
Runner up for GraveTells' Readers Choice for
favorite story in January
·
GraveTells' Reviewer's Choice in January
·
A finalist in Parajunkee's Best Adult Story
2012, which I'm particularly proud of because I was up against at least one NY
Times bestselling author, and the other two finalists were with big publishing
houses.
To celebrate one year, as well as these wonderful
achievements, I'm hosting a huge giveaway.
GIVEAWAY
FOR EVERY BLOG:
One winner from each blog will
receive:
A set of all the AKM
eBooks (if they don’t already have them) and one entry into both the Grand
Prize drawing, as well as the drawing I’m holding just for blog participants
(details are included in the above-mentioned posts I’ve written).
GRAND PRIZE GIVEAWAY:
Two prizes will be given away, as follows:
Grand prize
A prize back worth the envy of all your friends to include:
·
Autographed copies of Lover At Last and Lover
Awakened by J.R. Ward
·
Autographed copy of Edge of Dawn by Lara Adrian
·
Autographed copy of Last Chance to Run by Diana
Love (she co-writes with Sherrilyn Kenyon, as well)
·
If I Were You by Lisa Renee Jones (my favorite
book from 2012)
·
Primal Bonds by Jennifer Ashley
·
Covet by J.R. Ward
·
Bookmarks from me, Lara Adrian, Louisa Bacia,
and Jeaniene Frost
·
Confessions of a Naughty Nurse by Lily Harlem
·
The Art of Love by Michelle Graham
·
Year of Acheron ceramic travel mug from
Sherrilyn Kenyon (I want this! LOL)
·
And from me:
—
An AKM fleece blanket
—
AKM Bookmarks
—
AKM keychain
—
A Rebel Obsession canvas tote bag
—
A Rebel Obsession notebook
—
2013 AKM desk calendar
—
A set of all my AKM books in ebook format
There are two ways to enter the Grand Prize drawing: The
first will guarantee you an entry. Just email a screen shot or link to a review
or rating you've written for any of my AKM books (Rise of the Fallen, Heart of
the Warrior, Micah's Calling, or Rebel Obsession) on Amazon, Goodreads, Barnes
& Noble (or any other site) to me at donya@donyalynne.com. Details can be
found on my fan page on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DonyaLynne.
The second way to enter is to leave a comment here. This does NOT guarantee you an entry, but
gives you a chance, because one person who comments on this blog will gain one
entry in the drawing, which will take place on April 15.
Blog Prize
I will be giving away a smaller prize just for those who
comment on the blogs I'll be guesting on during my blog tour from March
18-April 6. Details about the tour can be found on my fan page, as well. This
prize package includes:
—
An AKM fleece blanket
—
A set of all my AKM books in ebook format
—
An AKM keychain
—
A set of bookmarks from me, Lara Adrian, Louisa
Bacia, and Jeaniene Frost
One person who posts a comment on each blog during my tour
will be entered into the drawing, which will take place after I draw for my
grand prize.
Good luck and happy reading!
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Guest Post/Giveaway w/ Donya Lynne
Today we have Donya Lynne back with us, introducing her upcoming release, Rebel Obsession. It's the 3rd book in her All The King's Men series. I absolutely love this series and I'm SO excited for this new book! I can NOT WAIT to read it!!! :)
Blurb:
Former cobalt addict and AKM drug counselor, Io is a male vampire
known as much for his abrasive personality as for his playboy lifestyle. Life
on the edge suits him, and he lives full throttle, making his own rules, damn
the consequences. What he wants, he takes, and what he wants now is Miriam. If
only he can find a way to see her again without getting himself killed, but her
father stands in the way.
Miriam is the daughter of the king. Strong-willed and defiant, she
feels like a prisoner in her own home and struggles to break free from under
her father’s oppressive hold. The king’s law surrounding Miriam is explicitly
clear: No one touches her. Period. It's a sentence that's left Miriam to suffer
from loneliness and resentment.
In a fit of rebellion, Miriam has turned to cobalt to find relief
and freedom, but now she’s a prisoner to addiction as much as to her father’s
strict control. What's more, she can’t get sexy Io, who gently tended to her at
the AKM facility as she recovered from her first overdose, off her mind. Will
she ever see him again?
When Miriam overdoses a second time, she and Io are thrust back
together, and all bets are off. Seeing each other was the one thing both
wanted, and not even the king’s laws and threats of punishment will be enough
to defuse their rebellious obsession with one another now that they’ve found
each other again, even if the consequences are death.
Rebel
Obsession, Io's story, was a labor to write. Io and Miriam were so riddled with
shame over what they had become, that neither wanted to talk, so I had to pull
the story from them bit-by-bit, a little at a time. But the end product was
worth the struggle. I've come to thoroughly enjoy the writing of this book, as
hard fought as it was in the beginning, because when the characters finally
opened up, they opened up big.
Why were
they ashamed, you might be asking? Well, if you've read the previous books in
the series, particularly Heart of the Warrior, you'll see that Io was a bit of
a bastard. He is notorious for being a womanizer and a bashing homophobe, and
when his best friend, Arion, ended up coming out about his homosexuality in
Heart of the Warrior, Io was floored. That storyline continues in Rebel
Obsession, and we get to see how Io deals with the loss of his friend and watch
him face the hard truth about himself: He's a dick. I do love when characters
go through hard self-realization like this. It's fun to write.
As far as
Miriam is concerned, she is ashamed that she fell victim so easily to the
drecks' drug, cobalt. She regrets taking that first hit, but now she doesn't
know how to stop. Priding herself on being smarter and stronger than that, she
obviously beat herself up pretty badly throughout the entire writing of this
story. There were days I felt like I was merely pulling her along in my mind.
The epiphany came when it hit me: SHE'S ASHAMED! And she was confused, too,
because she didn’t know who she was. After I realized that, it was easier to
work with her, because I finally knew how to approach her to get her to spill
her story…and I simply rode the idea that she was in the midst of an identity crisis,
which helped immensely.
But Rebel
Obsession isn't all about Io and Miriam. It became clear early on that this
story was a transition piece for the series, and it has a giant cast of
characters, connecting the earlier books of the series to the ones still to
come. In other words, if you miss this book, you will miss key components that
link the early books with the ones coming after it. My editor says this is her
favorite book of the series so far, and it's definitely the biggest, coming in
at 112,000 words, my upper limit for book size.
A few
favorite characters see their storylines continue to develop in Rebel Obsession.
Trace is obviously one of those characters. Everyone wants to know more about
Trace. Well, you'll definitely learn more about him in Rebel Obsession, and I
think you'll like what you learn. We also see Malek, who until now has been
whitewashed, calm, and logical, take a turn for the worse. There's a
complicated reason for that, which we started to see in Heart of the Warrior,
but you'll have to wait until the next book, Return of the Assassin, due out in
late 2013, to get his full story.
In fact, I'm
drafting Malek's piece now, and I'm in love with him. Whereas Rebel Obsession
comes off as a more romantic, transitory piece, Malek's story is taking shape
to be deep, dark, and full of action and devious plotting, rife with conflict
and adversity. So, stay tuned for more on his story.
We also see
the introduction of several new characters in Rebel Obsession, both bad and
good. Some will be pivotal to other developing storylines, while others will
simply simmer along through the series.
If you
haven't read the other books in the series, yet, and want to get caught up
before tackling Rebel Obsession on January 2, you can find them on Amazon with
the below links. The books are also available at Barnes & Noble, All
Romance ebooks, and Smashwords.
If you want
to keep up to date with what's going on at AKM or with any of my other work,
and also see occasional snippets of my current works in progress, you can follow
me on Facebook: Author Donya Lynne or on my blog: www.donyalynne.blogspot.com
Thank you
for having me on the blog today! Enjoy my boys…and their girls (or their boys,
as the case may be).
Happy
Reading and Writing,
Donya
Donya is offering ONE lucky commenter the chance to win one of the books already released in the All The Kings Men series (Winner's choice of which book, Rebel Obsession not included in giveaway). All you have to do to enter is comment below and please make sure you leave your email so you can be contacted if you are the winner! :)
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Guest Post by Donya Lynne - The Arms of Winter
Donya Lynne's Bio:
Donya
resides in Indianapolis, Indiana, with her husband and a small zoo of cats and
dogs. In fact, her writing buddy, Lucky, serves as her writing assistant most
days, staying right by her side and distracting Donya with her adorable-ness
when needed. Because, hey, every author needs a distraction once in a while.
As a
little girl, Donya always had a book in her hand. As she got older, the books
became pens and notebooks, which she filled with stories and poetry. For as
long as she remembers, she has been writing and studying the writing craft with
the goal of being published one day. She is passionate about providing readers
with what she calls an experience. She wants readers to be able to sink into
her stories and escape reality for just a little while, and every word is
written, and every sentence structured, with that goal in mind.
Donya
loves music and often finds inspiration for her stories in the wide range of
music she listens to. But occasionally it's a movie, a book, or just a drive
around town that inspires her work. She constantly reads new material, new
authors, and different styles of writing as a means to improve her own, and
believes the writing process is one an author should always strive to perfect,
even though perfecting it is an impossible feat. It's the thrill of the chase
and the challenge that keeps her from getting stagnant in her own work.
She
has several projects planned and in progress, including eight more novels and
two novellas in the All the King's Men series, as well as several stand-alone
novels, another series, and several short stories and novellas. She would love
to share her journey with you in this exciting venture.
The Arms of Winter by Donya Lynne
Hello, everybody! I'm so happy to be guesting on Book Lovin
Mamas today, introducing you to my new book, The Arms of Winter, which was just
released on June 30 by Silver Publishing.
I'm normally all about the paranormal. Vampires, fairies,
mystical creatures. That's where I typically live in my writing, as evidenced
in my series, All the King's Men, which includes my debut novel, Rise of the
Fallen, as well as book two of the series, Heart of the Warrior. If you read
those books, you'll see how much I love straying from the human world and into
a world of dark fantasy.
However, a call for submission by Silver Publishing last
year caught my eye. They wanted stories about men and women in uniform. I've
got a thing for snipers, so this appealed to me, and I very quickly found the
idea forming for The Arms of Winter. Immediately, I sat down and cranked out
the draft and sent it off to my beta readers. One loved it so much that she
said it was her favorite piece of all she'd read by me. I submitted it, and
several weeks later Silver contacted me to inform me they'd accepted the piece.
The Arms of Winter is what I would call an erotic love
story, and it's full of all my trademark emotional upheaval, conflict, and
adversity. In my world, a story just isn't a story without a good dose of
conflict and adversity. It's like Miracle Whip for fiction. LOL.
Hopefully, you will enjoy The Arms of Winter as much as my
beta readers did. And if your thing is more paranormal, look up my All the
King's Men series. You're sure to sink your fangs into those stories as much as
this one. I never thought I'd branch away from my paranormal roots, but now
that I've written The Arms of Winter, I think I'll venture down more normal and
"human" roads in my stories more often.
Book blurb:
After spending four months recovering from a brutal beating for being
gay, Sam Winter is medically discharged from the Army. At his family's estate
in Kentucky, he faces his father's condemnation and his mother's denial about
his homosexuality. The one thing he is certain
about is his feelings for his best friend, Cooper Brown, whom Sam has secretly
been attracted to since high school.
For years, Cooper has harbored a secret attraction toward Sam and is
finally ready to tell him. During a camping trip to their childhood stomping
grounds, they open up and their friendship expands in ways neither thought
possible.
However, when an explosive
confrontation occurs, Sam's and Cooper's fates are decided in one harsh moment
of truth.
Saturday, June 9, 2012
Blog Tour: "Heart of the Warrior" by Donya Lynne
We'd like to welcome Donya Lynne to Book Lovin' Mamas today! We'll be learning a bit about her and her series All The Kings Men. I have read both books and I have to say, they're really great books!
Donya Lynne's Bio:
Donya
resides in Indianapolis, Indiana, with her husband and a small zoo of cats and
dogs. In fact, her writing buddy, Lucky, serves as her writing assistant most
days, staying right by her side and distracting Donya with her adorable-ness
when needed. Because, hey, every author needs a distraction once in a while.
As a
little girl, Donya always had a book in her hand. As she got older, the books
became pens and notebooks, which she filled with stories and poetry. For as
long as she remembers, she has been writing and studying the writing craft with
the goal of being published one day. She is passionate about providing readers
with what she calls an experience. She wants readers to be able to sink into
her stories and escape reality for just a little while, and every word is
written, and every sentence structured, with that goal in mind.
Donya
loves music and often finds inspiration for her stories in the wide range of
music she listens to. But occasionally it's a movie, a book, or just a drive
around town that inspires her work. She constantly reads new material, new
authors, and different styles of writing as a means to improve her own, and
believes the writing process is one an author should always strive to perfect,
even though perfecting it is an impossible feat. It's the thrill of the chase
and the challenge that keeps her from getting stagnant in her own work.
She
has several projects planned and in progress, including eight more novels and
two novellas in the All the King's Men series, as well as several stand-alone
novels, another series, and several short stories and novellas. She would love
to share her journey with you in this exciting venture.
“Rise of the Fallen”,
Book 1
BUY NOW:
In the streets of Chicago exists an uneasy, centuries-old truce
between vampires and their distant cousins, a race of shifters called
drecks. Vampire enforcement agency, All the King’s Men (AKM), is charged
with maintaining the truce, but when volatile enforcer Micah Black loses his
mate and falls into the biological agony that results from the broken bond, he
tests the boundaries of the truce by seeking out Apostle, a leader in the dreck
community. Micah wants Apostle to kill him, a request Apostle is more
than happy to fulfill.
When ex-Army medic Samantha Garrett inadvertently disrupts the
plot and saves Micah’s life, a chain reaction sets Micah’s heart on a collision
course with Sam’s, but he will have to protect her from Apostle and her
obsessive ex-husband, Steve, if they will have a chance at forever. Can
Micah hold his emotions together to keep Sam alive?
"Heart of the
Warrior", Book 2
BUY NOW:
Severin was born to be a warrior. Conceived as a mixed-blood
when his vampire father raped his dreck mother over two centuries ago, Severin
retained the power of iron skin inherent to newborn drecks. However, Sev keeps
this secret closely guarded. If it's discovered that inferior dreck blood flows
in his vampire veins, it could destroy his life. And to make matters worse, his
father suddenly wants to make amends for his transgressions. Sev wants nothing
of his father's apology, especially now, as he contends with both an assassin
who has marked Sev for blood vengeance and his obsessive attraction to his
teammate, Arion.
Arion is the son of King Bain's liaison, Gregos Savakis, who had
Ari's course plotted before he was even born. But what Ari's overbearing
parents wanted for him wasn't what Arion wanted for himself, and a lifetime
spent fighting through one relationship after another with females from all
walks of life has left him weary in his search for a mate. After a startling
and erotic encounter with Sev, Ari has begun to realize why. He's gay. And now
he can't stop thinking about Sev. Arion suddenly realizes he's been forcing
himself to be with females because that's what his parents expected. But what
he wants is a male, and not just any male. Arion wants Severin.
Can the two overcome the secrets, prejudice, plotting, and the
threat on Severin's life to find happily ever after with each other?
Giveaway
Donya is giving an eBook of winners choice, either Rise of the Fallen OR Heart of the Warrior. To enter just fill out the rafflecopter below.
a Rafflecopter giveaway
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Review - "Rise of the Fallen" by Donya Lynne
Rise of the Fallen
(All the Kings Men #1)
Author: Donya Lynne
Publisher: Phoenix Press
Release Date: 3/23/12
Genre: Erotic Paranormal Romance
Source: Provided by author
Description
Vampire Micah Black is on a downward spiral and he’s slowly
losing his mind. Having lost not one but two mates in his long lifetime, he
doesn’t want to live anymore and his incredible craving for pain has become so
unbearable that he seeks out one of his clans biggest enemies, dreck named
Apostle and almost causes their long time peace to end. He wants Apostle to
kill him in a most painful way and Apostle is eager to help him with that.
Samantha Garrett has been hiding for a while now from her
crazy abusive husband and has been stripping in a seedy bar to pay the bills
and stay under his radar. When she stumbles upon a man being beaten to death
she goes against her better judgment and saves him from the gang of really
strange looking blue haired men. In
doing so she may have changed Micah’s fate, forever because she is now on her
way to becoming his third and most cherished mate. If they can overcome Micah’s
past issues and take care of the little problem of the drecks trying to sabotage
them…oh and that pesky crazy husband issue…maybe they can finally find the
happiness they both desperately want.
Review
This book really took me by surprise! I wasn’t expecting to
love it this much but I did and I’m so glad I’ve found this author! It’s so
refreshing to find a Vampire story that isn’t so much like all of the others
out there but Donya Lynne has succeeded in making this book original and quite
entertaining!
Micah actually had some major inner issues to deal with, it
was kind of nice to see such a big tough guy like him not feel as confident as
a vampire usually is and seeing him open up and fall in love was a beautiful
thing. But I must add that once he got back on his feet, he was one kick ass
bad boy. It was SO funny when he interacted with the other guys one the team.
Talk about a bad attitude. LOL I’m really going to miss the angry Micah in
future books.
Sam is a very in your face, ass kicking character too so it
was only natural that she end up with an alpha male like Micah and I loved that
he was such a hard ass with the guys but when it came to her he would get all sweet
and mushy. She so deserved someone as sweet and doting as Micah is towards her,
especially after her horrible relationship with her crazy husband and I really
loved how that relationship ends. If you ask me, he should have gotten much
worse.
I loved all of the different guys on the AKM team, there are
so many different personalities and that makes for some interesting character
interaction, that’s for sure. I’m looking forward to the next book, Heart of the
Warrior, which will be Severin and Arion’s story but the one I really want to
read is Trace’s story. I can’t wait to find out what’s up with him and how the
whole thing with Micah plays out.
I give this book 4.5 Moons and recommend it to all PNR and
Vampire lovers! It’s something new and different and it’s worth the time to
read it!
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