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Today we have the ever so wonderful Carolan Ivey (who makes me smile every time I see her because she’s so lovely and funny). She’s giving away a free ebook download of your choice from her backlist, and a Celtic music CD (US shipment only, please!)
Hi everyone, and thank you, Lauren, for inviting me. 🙂 By the time you read this I will have returned from the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games in North Carolina. Please visit my blog for kilt photos!
Below are thirteen random lines from my latest release, A Ghost of a Chance, book 2 of my Legends series. It comes out in print in October. Enjoy! 🙂
1. “If there isn’t a blond man in your life right now, there will be. And I daresay his entrance won’t be subtle.”
2. He narrowed his eyes as this new energy wavered and flickered, like a candle caught in a high wind. In danger of going out.
3. “Will you stop reading my mind?”
“I don’t have to. Besides, I’ve been in your mind. Cobwebs. Yeesh.”
4. “Your door’s open,” Lily remarked, and curled a lip in satisfaction when Ross’s gaze automatically dropped to his own fly. “Your car door, genius.”
5. Don’t breathe, don’t breathe, some last vestige of her conscious mind insisted. Hang on, help will come. It will. It will…
6. “I see,” she said slowly. “You’re not meanin’ her any harm, but you say there’ll be hell to pay if you don’t find her. Now I ask you, my fair fallen angel, how am I to interpret that?”
7. “I think it’s time for you to be havin’ a reading.”
He gave a bark of laughter. “You can’t do a reading for a dead man.”
She continued to lay out the cards, smacking each one down with a vengeance.
He swallowed. “Can you?”
8. “Carey Magennis. You have to let me go.”
9. “I was raised on the scariest ghost stories in the South ever since I was old enough to stay up past sunset. You aren’t missing any body parts, no bones sticking out. So, I’m sorry to say, but for a ghost you really aren’t that scary.”
10. I don’t belong here.
11. This is what I wanted. A safe, secure marriage, no surprises. Two kids and a Golden Retriever. But is it what I want, she contradicted herself in a flash of insight, or what is expected of me?
12. It was him.
His powerful presence bored into her back. As she stared, he leaned close to her ear, his eyes intense, his strong, straight lips moving.
“Carey, don’t take the pills tomorrow. We have to talk.”
A loud crash. She gasped as icy liquid splattered her feet and ankles. She’d dropped her glass. Her gaze flew back to the window. The man was gone.
13. “Lane, please. I need to disappear. Just for a while.”
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Today’s Question: Leave a comment to get in a drawing for a free ebook download of your choice from my backlist, and a Celtic music CD (US shipment only, please!)
Slan,
Carolan Ivey
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Good luck everyone! Winner will be announced tomorrow!
July 18th, 2009 at 4:13 am · Link
I LOVE the lines about the cobwebs and car door. LOL. I can’t wait to read this book.
July 18th, 2009 at 4:58 am · Link
I love all the lines. Makes me really want to read this book. 😎
July 18th, 2009 at 5:13 am · Link
Kilts? Crap, mind just went to mush!
Weee, those 13 lines are WOW!
Um, well since I can’t read the book until October 🙁
…have a question. Ok, so it seems she’s doing a reading on a ghost, can she, uh, you know, touch him?
Was just curious for ‘scientific’ reasonings of course.
😈
July 18th, 2009 at 5:42 am · Link
Love the random lines. I will definitely check out book one.
July 18th, 2009 at 5:52 am · Link
Line 4 is my favorite! And what is not to love about Celtic music! I have a few now and my kids and I love to dance to the upbeat toons!
Thanks-
Amy M
July 18th, 2009 at 5:56 am · Link
My Goodness sound like a great hot story…….I ‘d be very happy with the book.Have a great day guys
July 18th, 2009 at 6:48 am · Link
Line 3 made me lol! Thanks for doing this contest.
Susan
July 18th, 2009 at 7:01 am · Link
What a great idea to print some of your lines. This one has an incrediable double entrendre and I love it!
1. “If there isn’t a blond man in your life right now, there will be. And I daresay his entrance won’t be subtle.â€
The one about the cobwebs made me giggle.
July 18th, 2009 at 7:08 am · Link
I liked #4! If this is an example of the humor in Carolan’s books, then I definitely want to give them a try!
July 18th, 2009 at 7:09 am · Link
Thanks for the random lines. Three and four are my favorite. Have a great day.
July 18th, 2009 at 7:11 am · Link
Looks like there are two MichelleK’s! (I’m the one time-stamped at 7:08).
MichelleK (mishcara)
July 18th, 2009 at 7:15 am · Link
Loved the lines…….4 is my favorite too!!
July 18th, 2009 at 7:31 am · Link
The cobweb line made me laugh. The perfect selection of lines…just enough to make us want more!!
Have a great weekend.
July 18th, 2009 at 7:38 am · Link
I was laughing so hard with comment number 3 about the cobwebs. I am so excited for the new book!!!
July 18th, 2009 at 7:47 am · Link
I enjoyed this post. Too bad I don’t live in the US. I really enjoy Celtic Music. 😥
Good luck everyone!!
Valerie
July 18th, 2009 at 7:49 am · Link
What a great post. I recently read a post that featured the first lines of an authors books through time. You’ve hooked this fish!
July 18th, 2009 at 7:51 am · Link
Ohhh, kilt photos got to go & see those…did you have a spectacular time at the festival? ….did it provide you with loads of writing inspiration???
Michelle B.
July 18th, 2009 at 8:02 am · Link
The 13 random llines were fun to read and have made me intrugued about the book.
July 18th, 2009 at 8:20 am · Link
I like the lines 4 and 13, Sounds like a good book
July 18th, 2009 at 8:54 am · Link
Lines 3 and 4 are great! Sounds like a great read I’ll have to add to my list.
July 18th, 2009 at 8:54 am · Link
The book cover is hot!
July 18th, 2009 at 8:57 am · Link
My hubby and I used to go to the Scottish games in Northern California when we lived there. Ah, to listen to bagpipes. The games were fun, as well. Anyway, hope you had a good time.
Loved the lines.
😆
July 18th, 2009 at 9:02 am · Link
Hi Carolan,
I love the random lines from your book. What a great and fun way to introduce it to us. Definitely intriguing and leaving us wanting to find out more. But to tell the truth I was going to be headed to your website regardless. The book is just a bonus, because after I read that you would have pics from the Highland games you just attended I was ready to find the link to your website. I love me a man in a kilt, it is so beyond sexy it leaves me breathless!
July 18th, 2009 at 9:22 am · Link
Love the cover! and the post is fun! These sneak peeks into the book is very fascinating.
BTW, I’m an international reader so if I am lucky enough to win, please do not send me the CD.
July 18th, 2009 at 10:06 am · Link
Those lines are very intriguing. I am going to check out your backlist.
July 18th, 2009 at 10:11 am · Link
I really like getting random lines from your book. I really liked number 9.
July 18th, 2009 at 10:30 am · Link
Thank you so much for all your nice comments, everyone!
This sequel was a long time coming, mainly because I turned myself inside out giving the ghost hero in book 1 a convincing happily ever after. It took a lot of thought to come up with another fresh and convincing idea to give Troy, the hero in book 2, his own HEA.
Dana, the answer to your question is…”It depends.” [grin] If you read the excerpt, my answer might make more sense! 😉
July 18th, 2009 at 10:31 am · Link
Marjana, Tuesday Dube did my covers for both Legends books. Isn’t she fabulous?
July 18th, 2009 at 10:40 am · Link
the lines were awesome. The book sounds interesting i’ll have to check it out.
lexeetoste at sbcglobal.net
July 18th, 2009 at 10:56 am · Link
“If there isn’t a blond man in your life right now, there will be. And I daresay his entrance won’t be subtle.â€
Love it! Will have to give it a chance…
And I love Scottish festivals – used to go to Hunter Mt. in NYS for their weekend each year. The sight (and sound) of thousands of pipers marching down the mountain as the sun sets… YUMMMMMMM! 😎 Pardon me, I need to wipe the drool…
July 18th, 2009 at 10:59 am · Link
The random lines definitely whetted my appetite.
July 18th, 2009 at 11:08 am · Link
I loved line #4, it just demonstrates where most guys minds go fairly often… 😀
“Your door’s open,†Lily remarked, and curled a lip in satisfaction when Ross’s gaze automatically dropped to his own fly. “Your car door, genius.â€
July 18th, 2009 at 11:09 am · Link
Like everyone else I loved all the lines but in particular lines 3, 4, and 9 made me lol.
July 18th, 2009 at 11:36 am · Link
My husband had red hair (a McIntosh) until the grey started and now he is a blond – so I would have to say Number 1 is my favorite!
July 18th, 2009 at 11:51 am · Link
Hi Lauren! Hi Carolan! I’m just back from being away a few days with a broken laptop! One more new part but using a spare old one til it comes but at least i can be online now. I missed not being able to come here 🙁
Carolan, I have the print of book 1 on my keepers shelf and so can’t wait for the print in Oct! I read both ebooks and prints but some come to be favorites and love to have in prints too! I don’t think I missed any of your books so don’t put me in your contest. I just wanted to give a big hello and thanks for the great fantasy/paranormal reads!
Neat to put in the random line from your book! My favorite is #3 with the reading of the mind!
July 18th, 2009 at 12:39 pm · Link
Hi Caffey! [waving wildly]
Funnily enough, lines 3 and 4 were last minute inspirations that happened in one of the last edits of the manuscript. Just like Troy’s character didn’t really reveal itself until literally the final revision of book 1 – and he ended up being the most requested hero for book 2!
This was my first time writing a secondary romance (Lily and Ross) and Lily spoke this line in my ear on one of the final passes. She’s a sassy gal and I adore her. 🙂 She and Ross may make a reappearance in book 3.
July 18th, 2009 at 12:51 pm · Link
I love all the lines, but since I am a little sarcastic myself, #4 is my favorite!
July 18th, 2009 at 1:19 pm · Link
😈 Carolan, those kilt photos are a hoot! I love the species you made up. The Roman ain’t half bad is he? 🙂 I like the first line you listed the best of all the lines. His entrance won’t be subtle. The first time I read that, I thought it said, “His entrance won’t be suitable. : 😆
Have a great weekend!
Denise A. Agnew
http://www.deniseagnew.com
July 18th, 2009 at 1:24 pm · Link
Like other commenters, I loved those lines–thanks for giving us a taste! I like your voice, and will definitely need to read more!
July 18th, 2009 at 1:38 pm · Link
Loved the lines. Sounds like a great book. 😀
July 18th, 2009 at 1:39 pm · Link
Where have you been that I’ve not heard of your books, or rather, where have I been! Lines 1 & 3 caught my attention. Reading is my escape.
July 18th, 2009 at 1:39 pm · Link
Oh, I LOVED the 13 lines.
What a cool idea, and great way to hook…ME!! I have to add this to my TBB list. Thanks!!
July 18th, 2009 at 1:56 pm · Link
What titillating tidbits from Ghost of a Chance. I’m looking forward to the print release and to the next books in this exciting and entertaining series.
Don’t forget, Stephan needs his story told too!
July 18th, 2009 at 2:18 pm · Link
I love your thirteen random lines! 😆
July 18th, 2009 at 3:02 pm · Link
LOL, love No. 7!
July 18th, 2009 at 3:07 pm · Link
“So, I’m sorry to say, but for a ghost, you really aren’t that scary.” LOL Oh that’s just cute. Never seen the random lines form a book before, but it’s definitely a cool idea. I’ll have to host it for a while in this brain of mine!
July 18th, 2009 at 3:25 pm · Link
Patti, you’re not the only one who’s asked for Stephen’s story! 🙂 I think I will use him as a bridge to a new series I’m planning.
July 18th, 2009 at 9:33 pm · Link
10. I don’t belong here.
I feel this way every day. LOL
July 18th, 2009 at 9:47 pm · Link
Great way to tell us about the book, laughed at the cobwebs. I’ve got the first book to read now, need to get this one.
July 18th, 2009 at 11:10 pm · Link
i have to agree what a fun and new ide ato introduce a new book awesome lines cant wiat to read more ty for coming on by today