Writing Advice That Stuck With Me

What is the one piece of writing advice that stuck with me and why? That's the question Coffee Time Romance asked authors this month.

Want to know my answer? Be sure to check it out.

https://coffeetimeromance.com/CoffeeThoughts/adaug2018-nj-walters/

 

Top 5 Paranormal Movies

Since I love writing paranormal books, I'm listing my top 5 Paranormal movies over at the ENTANGLED IN ROMANCE BLOG

Be sure to stop by.

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RLF Interview--Meet Luther Henderson

Meet Luther Henderson, drakon and hero of Drakon Unchained, over at the ROMANCE LIVES FOREVER BLOG. Be sure to stop by and check it out.

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Everyone Loves a Sharp Dressed Man

Everybody is crazy about a sharp dressed man! What does that have to do with my new book? Drop on over to DELILAH DEVLIN'S BLOG and find out.

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Teaser Tuesday--Drakon Unchained

TEASER: DRAKON UNCHAINED

Victoria slid out from under his arm. “Do you have anything I can use? I’ve shot a handgun before, but not in a long time.” She nibbled on her bottom lip. “Maybe a knife too.”

Okay, was it wrong of him to get hard just thinking about her gearing up? It turned him on even as he wanted to howl at the fact she thought she needed to protect herself. He would protect her.

Buy Links:

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FMG4W2W/

Entangled: https://entangledpublishing.com/drakon-unchained.html
B&N: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/drakon-unchained-n-j-walters/1129098413
iBooks: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/drakon-unchained/id1412732920
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/drakon-unchained

DRAKON UNCHAINED IS HERE!

The big day is finally here! Drakon Unchained is now available! I'm so excited about this book and hope you love it as much as I do.

Drakon Unchained

Blood of the Drakon, Book 5

Victoria Marshall is living a lie. She works for a member of the Knights of the Dragon, a secret society that traps and uses dragons for their own gain. As a child, she made an unlikely friend—a drakon. He went missing, and she’s spent the past twenty years searching for him. The only thing distracting her from her mission is Luther Henderson, her boss’s new head of security.

Luther is also living a lie. One, if discovered, could lead to a fate worse than death. He’s attracted to Victoria, but can’t fully trust her, doesn’t know if she’s truly innocent or a true member of the Knights. It’s not only his life at stake, but those of the people he loves.

As they’re thrust deeper into the dangerous dealings of the Knights, they each have to share their secrets in order to survive.

 

Buy Links:

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FMG4W2W/

Entangled: https://entangledpublishing.com/drakon-unchained.html
B&N: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/drakon-unchained-n-j-walters/1129098413
iBooks: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/drakon-unchained/id1412732920
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/drakon-unchained

 

ONLY ONE MORE DAY...

 

Teaser: Drakon Unchained

Luther was a big man—he had to be at least six and a half feet tall—but there was more to him than just brawn. There was keen intelligence in his steel-blue eyes. He said little, but saw everything.
 

That was why he was so dangerous.

Buy Links:

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FMG4W2W/
Entangled: https://entangledpublishing.com/drakon-unchained.html
B&N: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/drakon-unchained-n-j-walters/1129098413
iBooks: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/drakon-unchained/id1412732920
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/drakon-unchained

 

ONLY 2 MORE DAYS...

 

Teaser: Drakon Unchained

 

Everything she was telling him might well be a lie.

 

Except he couldn’t detect any untruth in anything she’d told him. And he was very, very good at ferreting out lies. And Victoria reeked of sincerity.

 

But could he take the chance she might betray him?

 

Buy Links:

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FMG4W2W/

Entangled: https://entangledpublishing.com/drakon-unchained.html

B&N: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/drakon-unchained-n-j-walters/1129098413

iBooks: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/drakon-unchained/id1412732920

Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/drakon-unchained

 

 

A Look Inside Drakon Unchained

Take a peek inside Drakon Unchained, the next book in my Blood of the Drakon series, over at the Coffee Thoughts Blog.

https://coffeetimeromance.com/CoffeeThoughts/a-look-inside-drakon-unchained/

Exclusive Excerpt at HEA USA Today Blog

I am thrilled to be at HEA USA Today Blog sharing an exclusive excerpt from Drakon Unchained, which is releasing on August 27th!

Be sure to check it out.

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Summer Treats

I'm sharing my Top 5 Summer Treats over at the SWEET 'N SEXY DIVAS BLOG. Be sure to stop by.

 

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Over at the Decadent Diva's Blog

I'm over at the Decadent Diva's Blog sharing a teaser from my upcoming book, Drakon Unchained. Be sure to stop by and check it out.

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Music Monday--Aretha Franklin - Respect

 

Last week we lost a legend and a musical icon. Her music changed us all.

Follow my Facebook Author Page

So there has been some discussion about what is or is not acceptable to be posted on my FB personal profile. So if you want to make sure you don't miss any of my book news, please like my Author Page and follow.
 

https://www.facebook.com/N.J.WaltersAuthor/

 

Bakra Bride is back!

Bakra Bride, the second book in the steamy Tapestries series, is available today! This book was published before but hasn't been available for a couple of years. I'm so glad it's back!

After witnessing a gruesome murder, Jane Smith has watched her life crumble around her. Her only solace is the stunning and mysterious tapestry she discovered at a thrift store. When the image stitched into the tapestry magically comes to life one night, Jane finds herself transported to a mystical Medieval world, where two massive warriors declare their intentions to cater to her every sensual desire.

Zaren and Bador are stunned to realize that the prophecy of the tapestry has come true and brought Jane to them. The brothers willingly accept their duty to indulge her in every possible form of passion. But Jane’s arrival has also attracted the attention of rival warriors, who will go to any lengths to steal her from the Bakra brothers and claim her as their own.

As Jane adjusts to this frightening but enthralling world, Zaren and Bador risk all to protect her—even as they use all their sexual skill, separately and together, to take her to unimagined sensual heights. Because the time for Jane to choose is drawing near, and the Bakra brothers must convince her to abandon her former life—and take one of them as her loving husband for all time . . .

 

“Another wonderful, well-written novel by a talented author.” —Goodreads

 

BUY LINKS:

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GBHRVNF/
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/888593
Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/bakra-bride-nj-walters/1019740466
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/bakra-bride-1

 

Weekend Giveaway

✦WEEKEND GIVEAWAY✦

 

Just because I’m in the mood to give away something, I’m having a contest over on my Author Page and giving away a cute stuffed wolf and some magnets and stickers.

To enter for a chance to win, just go to my FB Author Page and check out the pinned post at the top.

https://www.facebook.com/N.J.WaltersAuthor/

✦✦✦Winner will be announced on August 13th✦✦✦

Weekend Book Club--Hot and Badgered by Shelly Laurenston

I read HOT AND BADGERED by Shelly Laurenston when it was first released but forgot to post about it, but better late than never. I absolutely LOVE her writing. I've read all The Pride Series and the Call of Crows.

Hot and Badgered is the start of her Honey Bader Chronicles. If you haven't read any of her books, no worries. You can jump right in with this one. But if you've read her Pride series, you'll recognize many of the secondary characters.

If you love paranormal books that are quirky, funny, and smart with lots of action, you must read these books.

BLURB:

It’s not every day that a beautiful naked woman falls out of the sky and lands face-first on grizzly shifter Berg Dunn’s hotel balcony. Definitely they don’t usually hop up and demand his best gun. Berg gives the lady a grizzly-sized t-shirt and his cell phone, too, just on style points. And then she’s gone, taking his XXXL heart with her. By the time he figures out she’s a honey badger shifter, it’s too late.

Honey badgers are survivors. Brutal, vicious, ill-tempered survivors. Or maybe Charlie Taylor-MacKilligan is just pissed that her useless father is trying to get them all killed again, and won’t even tell her how. Protecting her little sisters has always been her job, and she’s not about to let some pesky giant grizzly protection specialist with a network of every shifter in Manhattan get in her way. Wait. He’s trying to help? Why would he want to do that? He’s cute enough that she just might let him tag along—that is, if he can keep up . . .

Throwback Thursday--Wolf on the Run

Wolf on the Run features one of my favorite heroes. I'm a sucker for the strong, silent type and Cole Blanchard certainly is that. He uses his great strength to protect his pack and those he loves. While he's a live and let live kind of guy, you don't want to get on his bad side. He's relentless when it comes to seeking justice and protecting those weaker than himself.

 

Wolf on the Run

Salvation Pack, Book 3

Cherise and her mother had to run from their pack when everyone realized Cherise couldn’t shift. Now her mother’s gone, murdered by the hunters after them, and Cherise is all alone and out of options. When the people she’s running from catch up to her in Salvation, North Carolina, she’s saved by the biggest, baddest werewolf she’s ever seen.

Disposing of the intruders on his pack’s land is easy for Cole, but convincing the skittish woman the trespassers were after that she’s safe is another story. He recognizes her as his mate right off, and he’ll protect her no matter what, even if it means risking everything to face her former pack.

Cherise never thought she’d find a wolf she could trust, but she’s never met a Salvation wolf before now, and her mate is not about to let anything come between them.

Buy Links:

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073TSPH4T/
Entangled Publishing: https://entangledpublishing.com/wolf-on-the-run.html
B&N: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/wolf-on-the-run-nj-walters/1120006605?ean=9781640630208
iBooks: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/wolf-on-the-run/id1257723086
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/wolf-on-the-run-2

Upbeat Authors--Respect

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die. ~Maya Angelou

 

 

 

Tuesday Teaser--Drakon Unchained

TUESDAY TEASER: Drakon Unchained. Releasing August 27th. (Pre-order now.)

Luther was a big man—he had to be at least six and a half feet tall—but there was more to him than just brawn. There was keen intelligence in his steel-blue eyes. He said little, but saw everything.

That was why he was so dangerous.





Buy Links:
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FMG4W2W/
Entangled: https://entangledpublishing.com/drakon-unchained.html
B&N: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/drakon-unchained-n-j-walters/1129098413
iBooks: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/drakon-unchained/id1412732920
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/drakon-unchained

Movie Monday--Christopher Robin

I saw the new Christopher Robin movie. It's wonderful, lovely, and poignant. It was sad and happy and hopeful. I loved it!

Weekend Book Club--Wicked and the Wallflower by Sarah MacLean and An Affair with a Spare by Shana Galen

This past week was all about the historical romance and I read two wonderful books--Wicked and the Wallflower and An Affair with a Spare.

The first was Wicked and The Wallflower, the first book in the Bareknuckle Bastards series by Sarah Maclean. I love Sarah MacLean's books but I think she's outdone herself with this one--dark and dangerous with a heroine you will love. I can't wait for the next book in this series.

Next came An Affair with a Spare by Shana Galen. This book was delightful, complex, and a perfect addition to the series.

WICKED AND THE WALLFLOWER, 
Bareknuckle Bastards Book 1 by Sarah MacLean

BLURB:

When Wicked Comes Calling . . .
When a mysterious stranger finds his way into her bedchamber and offers his help in landing a duke, Lady Felicity Faircloth agrees—on one condition. She’s seen enough of the world to believe in passion, and won’t accept a marriage without it.
 
The Wallflower Makes a Dangerous Bargain . . .
Bastard son of a duke and king of London’s dark streets, Devil has spent a lifetime wielding power and seizing opportunity, and the spinster wallflower is everything he needs to exact a revenge years in the making. All he must do is turn the plain little mouse into an irresistible temptress, set his trap, and destroy his enemy.
 
For the Promise of Passion . . .
But there’s nothing plain about Felicity Faircloth, who quickly decides she’d rather have Devil than another. Soon, Devil’s carefully laid plans are in chaos and he must choose between everything he's ever wanted . . . and the only thing he's ever desired.

AN AFFAIR WITH A SPARE (The Survivors) by Shana Galen

BLURB:

He’s turned seduction into an art form…

Rafe Beaumont, fifth son of an earl, uses his irresistible charm with the ladies to glean dangerous war secrets. Now he’s putting those skills to the ultimate test: capturing an elusive assassin by seducing his daughter. The problem? She’s entirely immune to Rafe’s flattery.
 
Never before has Collette Fortier met a man as attractive as Rafe. But her father’s life is at stake, and succumbing to Rafe would be disastrous. But when Rafe turns the tables on her, offering support and friendship instead of a fleeting affair, Collette finds herself tempted in ways she never could have imagined…

Throwback Thursday--Wolf from the Past

While I love all my books--I wrote them after all--there are some that are special. One of those books is Wolf from the Past, book 4 of the Salvation Pack series. There is just something extra special about Gator Rollins. He's laidback for the most part, but make no mistake, he is one dangerous werewolf, especially when those he loves are threatened. And he can cook. He surprised me with that tidbit when I was writing the series. :-)

Wolf from the Past

Salvation Pack, Book 4

For years, everyone believed Sylvie LaForge Dubois was dead, and she worked hard to keep it that way. Now that her abusive, dangerous mate is dead, she’s come back to face everyone. But it’s harder than she thought it would be, especially when Gator Rollins watches her every move, making her uneasy and excited all at once. She never imagined she’d want another man, but her attraction to Gator is too strong to fight.

 

Before Gator had the chance to tell Sylvie how he felt about her, she was mated to someone else and then killed. Now she’s back, and there’s nothing he won’t do to protect her and get that second chance he never thought he’d have.

But Sylvie is in more danger than ever when her old pack learns she’s still alive And if they get to her, there’s no coming back from the dead twice.

 

Buy Links:

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073TT1PNK/
Entangled Publishing: https://entangledpublishing.com/wolf-from-the-past.html
B&N: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/wolf-from-the-past-nj-walters/1122198359?ean=9781640630215
iBooks: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/wolf-from-the-past/id1257704986
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/wolf-from-the-past-1

 

 

An Ode to the Romance Novel (Feat. Lindsay Ellis) | It's Lit!

Interesting look at the romance novel.