Raine Balkera - Romance Author

Title: One Hour Girl Series: Lost Souls #1 Author: L eTeisha Newton Genre: Contemporary Romance   Release Date: February 2 9 , 2016 Blurb He thinks I’m his forever girl, I saw it in his eyes. I wished I could have slapped the look off his face and hit him with the same jarring finality I’d learned I didn’t mean shit. I’m not a forever sort of girl. I’m not even his for the night. He’ll be lucky if I’m his for the next hour if he doesn’t pay me for it. And then Royce Mattherson stormed my defenses. Took all the poison inside of me and pushed it out through my pores. He tasted the taint on my skin and still decided to love me. He terrifies me. Exhilarates me. Frustrates me. And he always gets what he wants. Always ADD TO GOODREADS Purchase Links AMAZON US / UK Excerpt “You are my date for the night.” He said date like a curse and I arched my br...

My Inigo Before I begin this update on my latest #WIP (novel #3), I'd like to take a moment to tell everyone how much fun I had today. On Facebook, of all places! Today is a writer friend of mine's birthday, and to celebrate, she hosted an Author Party on Facebook and invited a host of great author friends to help her share in the fun. Every half hour, from 2p until 8p, we met someone new and interesting, learned all about them and their published works, and played some fun games with them. In the past, I've attended these kinds of parties and had as much fun or not as much fun, but it's good to know someone is thinking about me to invite me, so I try attending them all. I''ve also read a few blog posts and even an online magazine article that question the validity or worth of such events, and I have to say they are crazy to think it isn't a good idea. Well, let me be more precise and say that they aren't quite crazy if the people who of...

We've all read at least one review (possibly about our own novel) that manages to not only upset but also give the impression that said reviewer would write something awful regardless of content or execution. It's a tough call, especially when it isn't the author's job to cast judgment on a reader in the same way a reader can and will do to any and all authors. We've probably read at least one blog post or online magazine article that recommends authors 'ignore' bad reviews, and I know a few authors who never read their book's reviews at all: good OR bad. Yet there are authors who like to brag-post a glowing review -- which probably has more to do with attempting to boost sales than it does a need to feed their ego -- but again, it's hard to tell sometimes. Lately, we read and discuss the issue of 5-Star reviews and their possible draw-backs. There are countless blog post and online magazine articles that offer some form of advice about...

Reading is what everyone can do and writing is what some are capable of doing. But, not all writers are capable of doing it correctly. Which is where reader's feedback comes in handy. Honest feedback is essential to our craft and what helps us improve, so it is a necessary evil in our line of work to not only receive reviews but to read them objectively in order to learn from  our   mistakes. I subscribe to BookBub , which alerts me daily to Free and discounted E-books via Amazon, and while I agree with Collette Cameron about the idea of free and cheap being a potential detriment to us authors, I also see it as a way for authors to gain valuable feedback. For a writer, it pays to understand what comprises bad writing in the same way that it pays to read outstanding works of art. We gain by learning from both. The reader, on the other hand, is merely screwed by the purchase and reading of bad writing, but in the long run, so is that...