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Coming soon… The Risqué Series by Lilly Avalon!

6/30/2020

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This novella series consists of three men in unconventional professions: the stripper, the escort, and the porn star. All three covers were designed by Lilly Avalon herself!
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Release Date: August 31st 2020

Carlie Coleman is not looking forward to her stepsister’s bachelorette party.

It was supposed to be a simple affair with a small group of Valerie’s closest friends at their parents’ beach house. Instead, the guests have tripled, there’s a fancy caterer, and at some point there will be strippers.

It’s going to be a disaster… until she meets the cute waiter.

Aiden Carter is sweet and she’s smitten. They can’t stop staring at each other from across the room. Their mutual attraction is undeniable. Before the night is over, she discovers something else.

The cute waiter is also the entertainment.

Preorder Desiring the Dancer (only $0.99!):
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Release Date:September 14th 2020

Goldie Rivers needs a date… and fast.

She isn’t showing up to another wedding by herself. The incessant questions about why she’s still single, not to mention the men who won’t leave her alone when they find that out. What’s a girl to do?

Hire an escort, of course.

Gavin Pruett is sexy, confident, and definitely not coming home with her tonight. He’s only there to keep the questions and other men at bay. His company proves far more tempting than she could have predicted, things heat up.

Will Goldie be able to fight it or will she give in?

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Release Date:September 28th 2020

Margaret Bloom doesn’t know why she’s at this party.

Recently dumped by her serious boyfriend, she would much rather be ringing in the new year at home in her pajamas. If she were there, she wouldn’t have to worry about the dreaded midnight kiss. She has to figure out what to do and time is running out.

Enter Phoenix Westbrook.

He’s sexy, he’s nice… and he’s a porn star? This information may have initially come as a shock, but just makes the idea of kissing him all the more tempting. They make a pact to share a kiss at midnight, no strings attached.

They didn’t count on the kiss leading them to other things.

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Lilly Avalon is the thirty-something author of the RESIST series and other romance books. She started to pen her first erotica at twelve years old, but her mom found the "dirty story" and threw it away, which was just as well because it wasn't that good. At all. Luckily, she continued to write stories for years until she rediscovered her love of sexy tales in her late twenties.

Lilly currently resides in Ohio with her husband and pet rodents. Lilly Avalon is a pen name.

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#IWSG: Where's the writing guilt?

6/29/2020

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The first Wednesday of every month is the Insecure Writer's Support Group. Posts go up the 1st Wednesday of every month. Check it out here and join if you need support with your writing. Don't forget to stop by and say hi to the co-hosts: Jenni Enzor, Beth Camp, Liesbet, Tyrean Martinson, and Sandra Cox!

July 1 question - There have been many industry changes in the last decade, so what are some changes you would like to see happen in the next decade?

I have no idea how to answer this question. Stuff like that isn't something I spend a lot of time thinking on. I'm more of a roll with the flow of things type person, so whatever happens, I try to adapt and keep on trucking.

As for my insecurities... Well, I can't say they've been horrible. Most of June I felt some hopelessness about my writing. I didn't get much done because of health issues and the lack of energy which accompanied them.

It didn't help matters when I put Influenced up for pre-order, sent a newsletter about it and didn't get a single pre-order. I've heard people touting how wonderful newsletters are and the people on it are your true fans who want to support you and can't wait to read your books. I wondered what those people were smoking because I wasn't seeing it. I had to remind myself that my list is small and I'm still building it, and the people who are showing off their great stats have had theirs for a while. It takes works to find readers.

Strangely, despite all that, I didn't feel too guilty about my lack of writing in June. Probably because I know guilt won't get me writing sooner, and I can't push myself too hard or else I risk making my chronic illness flare worse. That only delays my writing. It's hard to get into my characters' worlds when my body is screaming in pain.

I'm hoping July will prove better for writing, that the changes I've made to my health will get the pain under control when it flares, and I can spend less time wondering why my body hates me so much and more wondering why my characters won't do what I tell them to.

How has your summer been going? What industry changes do you want to see? Want to help me out with release day for Influenced? You can sign up here.
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13 Truths in Urban Legends

6/22/2020

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 1. Charlie No-Face is looking for you
It  was in the early 1900s when a Pennsylvania boy named Ray Robinson was electrocuted by a trolley wire and resulted in lifelong disfigurement. That led to him being ostracized, and the stories about his disfigurement grew more preposterous with each telling.

Today,  people in western Pennsylvania insist that Charlie No-Face (how Ray  became Charlie is a mystery) is a radioactive, glowing green figure who haunts an abandoned freight tunnel. The truth, sadly, is he as the  victims of an unfortunate childhood accident.

2. Croc from Batman is real
In  the early 1900s, wealthy New Yorkers would bring baby alligators from  Florida to the Big Apple as pets. When those pets grew too big and weren’t as cute as they wanted, they supposedly flushed them down the toilet. The truth in this tale come from a New York Times report of a group of teenagers who witnessed a gator crawling out of the Bronx  River.

3. Wanted: Dead Children for government science!
After World War II and the US dropping the world’s first atomic bomb, there  was a rush of testing. scientists wanted to determine the effects of  nuclear radiation of human flesh. A series of tests known as “Project  Sunshine” used the bodies of deceased children—specifically, stillborn  babies. It’s believed that the parents were probably not told how their  children’s bodies were being experimented on!

4. This water tastes funny
It was the year 2013 and guests at a Los Angeles hotel were complaining  about a terrible smell whenever they showered—as well as taste when they  tried to brush their teeth. Management went up to the roof to check the water tank and found the body of a 21 year old woman floating inside. Elisa Lam had been estimated to have been in the tank for two weeks.

5. The Bogeyman is gonna get you!
“Cropsey” was a Bogeyman in Staten Island who would drag children from their beds while a bloody ax was nestled in the crook of his arm. The legend surrounding him can most likely be traced back to a man named Andre Rand. He worked as a janitor at Willowbrook State school and was suspected of kidnapping multiple children. Officially, he was found  guilty of kidnapping two.

6. The house at the bottom of the lake
It is confirmed that a house rests in the murky depths of Connecticut’s Gardner Lake. Supposedly, the house sank when a family attempted to move it across the frozen lake in the middle of a 19th century winter. Where this story gets eerie, is to this day, fishermen report hearing musical  notes gurgling up to the lake’s surface. They say it sounds like a  piano.

7. The Woman in Black spotted haunting the South
2014, a woman dressed in black from head to toe, complete with a trailing  black veil and billowing black robes, was spotted walking the highways of the South. Rumors mounts to what she could possibly up to. The truth  turned out to be mundane. She was a US Army Veteran on a self imposed  pilgrimage having to do with her faith and religion.

8. It’s not really a dead body, is it?
In 1976, at The Pike Amusement Zone in Long Beach, CA, a mummy prop was  discovered to be the real body of Elmer McCurdy, a bank and train robber in the early 20th century. What’s even more bizarre is before his body  wound up at the amusement zone, it was a staple of the traveling and sideshow circuit for more than five decades. His remains were finally sent to their final resting place in 1977 at Summit View Cemetery in  Gunthrie, OK.

9. Aliens are real...ly dead
Everyone knows about Area 51. Are aliens real? Is the government hiding them from us? Maybe, maybe not, but there is a real mass burial ground  related to aliens—more specifically E.T. and his 1982 video game, E.T.  The Extraterrestrial. The video game is rumored to be the worst game ever made, and was so widely hated, that Atari buried every copy of  unsold games in the sands of a New Mexico landfill.

10. Sit, Dog Boy. Good, Dog Boy
An Arkansas-based urban legend tells of a dog man roaming around the town  of Quitman is actually an embellishment of the true tale of Gerald  Bettis. In 1981, his father was found dead. Bettis then kept his mother imprisoned in the house until adult protective services placed her in  protective custody. His mother testified against him in court and he  went to prison, where he died.

People claim Gerald’s spirit still haunts the house he grew up in and where his  father died. In a variation of the legend, his ghost walks on all fours  and is shaggy like a dog.

11. Video games will kill you
In 1981, a video game called Polybius was released at an arcade in Portland, Oregon. The game was designed by the  government to be a psychological experiment. It functioned like a drug, and it gave its players seizures and nightmares. Government officials  would come in and extract information about the players through the arcade machine.

Polybuis may not exist, but there was a game, titled Tempest, that did cause epileptic reactions and motion sickness among players when it was released in 1981.

12. The Alice Killings
The Alice Killings is a new and famous urban legend in Japan. It revolves  around a series of killings between 1999 and 2005 where the victims only  connection to each other was a single playing card found on the body with the name "Alice" written in the victim's blood.

While this urban legend isn't true in Japan, it is in Spain where a serial killer identified his murders with playing cards. He was caught in 2003 and sentenced to 142 years in prison.

13. The city beneath your feet
Conspiracy theories abound about a subterranean city beneath Denver International  Airport (despite many being debunked.) But did you know there is an  American city that has its own underground city? Beneath the streets of Las Vegas homeless people live in the city’s flood channels. It wasn’t a  grand conspiracy theory, but more an effort on the tourist industry to  maintain the city’s “appeal” that forced the homeless underground.

I hope you enjoyed learning about the truths hidden in 13 urban legends. What legends are your favorites? Do you know the nugget of truth inside?

(Sources: 30 Urban Legends, Creepy Urban Legends)
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Influenced is on its way to you!

6/22/2020

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Funny story, I didn't mean to have this posted yet. I had the draft to Influenced sitting on my KDP dashboard, and I had to reupload the file. I was tired. Thinking was difficult, so when I got done with the changes, I clicked "Submit for Pre-order" instead of "Save Draft". I didn't even realize it at the time. Nope, what clued me in was the email from Amazon congratulating me on my pre-order.

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Influencers are the voices that whisper in our ears. Tiny Angels and Devils sitting on our shoulders and guiding our choices. They are sworn to thwart the other. It is their duty.

Or so they thought…

Nothing is as it seems and questions are piling up. Do Kale and Ariel have the strength to face the truth? Will Tony and Landon be forced to choose a side? Can Soleil break through to Kemuel?
Three tales, three choices: Light. Dark. Or the shades of gray between.

Which one will win?

Influenced is a sweet romance fantasy short story collection about the angels and devils who sit on our shoulders and whisper in our ears.

So, yup, there's no taking it back. This is what I get for doing stuff while dealing with a bout of fatigue.

Pre-order Influenced on Amazon for 99cents!

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#IWSG: Is Indie Publishing Heading for Burnout?

6/1/2020

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The first Wednesday of every month is the Insecure Writer's Support Group. Posts go up the 1st Wednesday of every month. Check it out here and join if you need support with your writing. Don't forget to stop by and say hi to the co-hosts:Pat Garcia, J.Q. Rose, and Natalie Aguirre!

The optional question for this month  is: Writers have secrets! What are one or two of yours, something readers would never know from your work?
Readers would probably never guess I don't watch a lot of horror or vampire movies. I'm a wuss so I avoid horror, and, I dunno, I'd just rather read about vampires than watch them.

Now, onto my post. I had another topic in mind, but I forgot it.  I had this video sitting around and I thought it'd be perfect for IWSG, so I'm talking about this instead. Maybe I'll remember the other topic in time for the next one.

What do you think? Can writers keep up the mad pace to publish monthly/bi-monthly? Or will we see a drop in releases due to burn out?

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