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Congratulations January 2012 Second Place Winner: Webs of Fate

2012-01-30T00:15:00.002-06:00

Title: Webs of Fate
Author: Darlene Quinn
Trailer Creator: AuthorEdge

Blurb:
Power. Deception. Betrayal. The award-winning prequel to author
Darlene Quinn's "Webs of Power" and "Twisted Webs," "Webs of Fate."

Congratulations January 2012 Third Place Winner: CassaFire

2012-01-29T00:15:00.003-06:00

Title: CassaFire
Author: Alex J. Cavanaugh
Trailer Creator: Dancing Lemur Press, L.L.C.

Blurb:
CassaStar was just the beginning…

The Vindicarn War is a distant memory and Byron’s days of piloting Cosbolt fighters are over. He has kept the promise he made to his fallen mentor and friend - to probe space on an exploration vessel. Shuttle work is dull, but it’s a free and solitary existence. The senior officer is content with his life aboard the Rennather.

The detection of alien ruins sends the exploration ship to the distant planet of Tgren. If their scientists can decipher the language, they can unlock the secrets of this device. Is it a key to the Tgren's civilization or a weapon of unimaginable power? Tensions mount as their new allies are suspicious of the Cassan's technology and strange mental abilities.

To complicate matters, the Tgrens are showing signs of mental powers themselves; the strongest of which belongs to a pilot named Athee, a woman whose skills rival Byron’s unique abilities. Forced to train her mind and further develop her flying aptitude, he finds his patience strained. Add a reluctant friendship with a young scientist, and he feels invaded on every level. All Byron wanted was his privacy…

Congratulations January 2012 YGR BEST VIDEO WINNERS!

2012-01-28T12:00:00.001-06:00

CONGRATULATIONS

TO THE YOU GOTTA READ VIDEOS

January 2012 WINNERS!

First Place

Title: Painted Jezebel
Author: Jolie Pethelr
Trailer Creator: Jolie Pethelr

Second Place

Title: Webs of Fate
Author: Darlene Quinn
Trailer Creator: AuthorEdge

Third Place

Title: CassaFire
Author: Alex Cavanaugh
Trailer Creator: Dancing Lemur Press L.L.C.

Announcement: New Rewards for Winners!

2012-01-21T20:14:00.001-06:00

The January poll is now active. Please note the updated deadline in the Poll announcement.
We are now offering extra rewards to winners!
In addition to the Badge to put on their websites winners will receive the following free advertising:

1st place wins 3 months of free advertising on all 4 of YGR sites.
You Gotta Read Reviews You Gotta Read Guest Posts You Gotta Read Cover Contest and
You Gotta Read Videos

2nd place wins 1 month of free advertising on all 4 of YGR sites.

3rd place wins 1 free month of advertising on the cover contest site.

Good luck to all the entrants!

January 2012 YGR Best Video Trailer Voting Now OPEN!

2012-01-21T00:15:00.001-06:00

UPDATE- NOTE: Sorry about posting the poll late today. I have extended the voting time to noon on 1/28 and the winners will be announced that afternoon with the 3rd place winner featured on the 29th, 2nd place on the 30th and 1st place on the 31st.

Thank you everyone for your entries. The Voting Poll is now posted for JANUARY 2012 YGR BEST VIDEO TRAILER! You can use the index on the right hand sidebar to view the videos or scroll down the page. Feel free to leave comments to encourage the authors and trailer creators. Tell your family and friends - Get out and vote! Voting will close ~~12:01 AM Central January 27.~~ 12:01 PM Central January 28.

~~Winners will be announced January 27th, the 3rd place winner featured on the 28th, 2nd place on the 29th and 1st place on the 30th.~~ SEE UPDATE ABOVE

SUBMISSIONS ARE STILL OPEN FOR February 2012. SUBMISSIONS ARE BEING ACCEPTED FOR THE REMAINING SLOTS IN February 2012 and for March 2012!! Remember that we schedule postings by receipt date.

January 2012 Entry #20 Midnight Oil, Book 2 of the Witches of Galdorheim Series

2012-01-20T00:15:00.001-06:00

Title: Midnight Oil, Book 2 of the Witches of Galdorheim Series
Author: Marva Dasef
Trailer Creator: Marva Dasef

Logline: Shipwrecked on a legendary island, how can a witch rescue her boyfriend if she can’t even phone home?

Blurb:
Kat is a nervous wreck waiting for her boyfriend's first visit to her Arctic island home. He doesn't show up, so she's sure he’s given her the brushoff.

When she learns he’s disappeared, she sets out on a mission to find him. Things go wrong from the start. Kat is thrown overboard during a violent storm, while her brother and his girlfriend are captured by a mutant island tribe. The mutants hold the girlfriend hostage, demanding the teens recover the only thing that can make the mutants human again–the magical Midnight Oil.

Mustering every bit of her Wiccan magic, Kat rises to the challenge. She invokes her magical skills, learns to fly an ultralight, meets a legendary sea serpent, rescues her boyfriend, and helps a friendly air spirit win the battle against her spiteful sibling. On top of it all, she’s able to recover the Midnight Oil and help the hapless mutants in the nick of time.

January 2012 Entry #19 Winter

2012-01-19T00:15:00.001-06:00

Title: WINTER
Author: KEVEN NEWSOME
Trailer Creator: KEVEN NEWSOME

Blurb:
Winter Maessen didn’t ask for the gift of prophecy. She’s happy being a freak – but now everyone thinks she’s crazy. Or evil. Goths aren’t all the same, you know. Some are Christians…

Christians to whom God sends visions.

Students at her university are being attacked, and Winter knows there’s more than flesh and blood at work. Her gift means she’s the only one who can stop it – but at what price?

January 2012 Entry #18 The Kingdom Chronicles ~ Mark of the Princess

2012-01-18T00:15:00.002-06:00

Title: The Kingdom Chronicles ~ Mark of the Princess

Author: B.C. Morin

Trailer Creator: H. Williams

Blurb :

The feisty and determined faerie Princess Alannah is many things, but she never thought she would be the key to her people’s destruction.

Kidnapped for a power she does not yet possess, Alannah finds herself in the clutches of the most malevolent sorcerer of her time. Maligo. Alannah escapes her prison with help from the handsome and stalwart warrior faerie, Brennus.

Now she must cross mountains and forests fraught with rogue faeries, vicious Fae-hating trolls, dangerous shape-shifters, and more to reach the only ones that can help her control her incoming powers. The Elder Faeries.

With Brennus by her side, Alannah is determined to reach the Elder Faeries and save her people. Maligo is just as determined she never makes it that far.

January 2012 Entry #17 Della

2012-01-17T00:15:00.002-06:00

Title: DELLA
Author: Julie Michele Gettys
Trailer Creator: Bill Gettys

Blurb:
A rags to riches story of a young woman struggling to achieve the American Dream.

January 2012 Entry #16 I Believe

2012-01-16T00:15:00.003-06:00

Title: "I Believe"
Author: Vicki Batman
Trailer Creator: Michelle Miles

Blurb:
Allie deeply desires what her sister and cousins have--the man of their dreams. And they assure her she can…if she’s willing to believe. When her sister shares their grandmother's spell for conjuring her own true love, Allie's deeply conflicted. After all, magic is a risky business. A woman died when a potion went wrong. Did she want to mess with magic, knowing it might not work? Only the outcome will tell....

"I Believe" explores what happens when someone is so desperate, she'll do anything to -- and quite possibly will -- find true happiness.

January 2012 Entry #15 High on a Mountain

2012-01-15T00:15:00.002-06:00

Title: High on a Mountain
Author: Tommie Lyn
Trailer Creator: Tommie Lyn

Blurb:
As a boy, Ailean MacLachlainn dreamed of living an adventurous life and longed to be a celebrated warrior of his clan. Until a shy smile and a glance from Mùirne's blue eyes turned his head and escalated his rivalry with Latharn into enmity and open conflict.

When Ailean became a man, his boyhood dreams faded. Until Bonnie Prince Charlie came to reclaim his father's throne. The Jacobite loyalties of Ailean's clan chief involved the MacLachlainns in the uprising and set Ailean on a course toward a destiny of which he could never have dreamed.

What happens when a man's dreams turn to dust? And when a man loses everything, does he have what it takes to go on?

High on a Mountain is the stirring tale of one man's remarkable journey through life; a story of adventure and love...of faith, loss and redemption

January 2012 Entry #14 Painted Jezebel

2012-01-14T00:15:00.001-06:00

Title: Painted Jezebel
Author: Jolie Pethtelr
Trailer Creator: Jolie Pethtel

Blurb:
Publicist Finn Mackenzie has always been lucky, until an ill-fated affair with a vindictive writer leaves him one chance for redemption: a spectacular public appearance by the elusive best-selling romance author, Jezebel Jinx.

Unfortunately, the cute but kooky writer refuses to cooperate. Jezebel believes she’s cursed with bad luck. Riddled with anxieties, she never leaves her home— until the gorgeous, albeit desperate Finn whisks her away to a writer’s conference, against her will.

After the initial shock wears off, Jezebel’s dormant hormones kick into high gear around the hunky Finn.

When his ex turns up murdered and Jezebel is the prime suspect, ill-planned sexcapades are the least of their worries

January 2012 Entry #13 Agartha's Castaway

2012-01-13T00:15:00.003-06:00

Title: Agartha's Castaway
Author: Chrissy Peebles

Trailer Creator: Willsin Rowe

Blurb:
Dinosaurs, abduction, and a hidden civilization were never part of seventeen year old Casey Smith’s vacation plans. That is, until a freak storm tossed her and two best friends, Mike and Jack, out to sea. When they wash up on what they presume to be a mysterious tropical island...they soon discover that being lost...is the least of their troubles. In a jungle that teems with impossible creatures, UFOs, and an unworldly landscape, the three friends need to team up to fight danger...without letting their emotions tear them apart. Can they find a way to survive the harsh jungle…and its deadly inhabitants?

January 2012 Entry #12 Rising (Book One in teen series Saga of the Setti)

2012-01-12T00:15:00.002-06:00

Title: RISING (BOOK ONE in teen series SAGA OF THE SETTI)
Author: STEPHANIE JUDICE
Trailer Creator: NATHAN AVANT

BLURB:
Having waited a millennium to return to the fertile feeding ground of earth, the dark giants break through a portal and storm out into the world in the guise of a massive hurricane—famished and fierce.

Across the ocean, seventeen-year-old Gabriel Goddard is being plagued by terrifying nightmares about creatures that singe and burn the flesh then absorb the life energy of humans and devour the ashes. A chance meeting with Clara Dunaway immediately distracts Gabe from bad dreams. He has always had a sort of sixth sense—to feel the emotions of others around him. Clara’s presence numbs his other sense, nearly knocking him into a hypnotic state. Bewildered and fascinated, he is lured in by her. When Clara finally confesses that she has a similar gift to see auras around people, a spark flames between them, ignited by a paranormal force. Fate soon reveals that there is a higher purpose for their attraction.

Along with Jeremy, the head-bangin’ metal head; Ben, the air-headed golden boy; Melanie, the kind-hearted Creole; and the old hermit named Homer, they must face this enemy as one. Discovering that they are descended from an ancient clan of Norse warriors, they awaken their dormant powers, preparing for the dark giants' imminent invasion of their home.

A shadow of darkness veils the land. Will the Setti rise to fulfill their long-awaited destiny?

January 2012 Entry #11 The Monster of Silver Creek

2012-01-11T00:15:00.001-06:00

Title: The Monster Of Silver Creek
Author: Belinda G. Buchanan
Trailer Creator: Belinda G. Buchanan

Blurb:
Terror has come to this small town. A sinister killer is on the loose. A serial killer who feeds off of young women's fear...and leaves a most unusual calling card. Police Chief Nathan Sommers is on the hunt, but every road leads to a dead end.

Nathan is battling his own personal demons as he tries to cope with the death of his wife. He feels her dying was a direct result of his actions and is consumed by guilt.

His personal life becomes more complicated when he meets Katie, the pretty new owner of the bakery. Nathan slowly builds a relationship
with her, but still struggles with Jenny's death.

As he draws nearer to the killer, everything in his life suddenly comes undone. He is forced to deal with his feelings for Katie and his love for his dead wife.

January 2012 Entry #10 CassaFire

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January 2012 Entry #9 Desert Fire

2012-01-09T00:15:00.002-06:00

Title: DESERT FIRE
Author: H.M. Prévost
Trailer Creator: Kim McDougall

Blurb:
After running to the scene of a plane crash in Abu Dhabi, Nick Chevalier stumbles across classified military secrets. A ruthless terrorist will stop at nothing to get them. As Nick investigates the cover-up behind the downed plane, he crosses paths with an agent from a covert espionage agency and makes the leap from high school senior to teen spy. But he realizes too late that he put more than his own life at risk—his mother and sister are also in danger. Does he have what it takes to outwit a terrorist who wants him dead and save the two people he loves?

January 2012 Entry #8 The Academie

2012-01-08T00:15:00.002-06:00

Title: The Academie
Author: Amy Joy
Trailer Creator: Amy Joy

Blurb:
Allie Thompson is torn from her life and boyfriend when teen violence causes the government to house everyone under 22 in a militaristic, public school system.

When Allie Thompson graduated, she thought she'd put high school behind her. But when a series of violent outbreaks by teens sends panic surging through the nation, high school is right where Allie finds herself again. Now remolded into what the government calls The Academie, what was once the public school system is now the permanent home of everyone 22 and under.

After a year away at college and a lifetime as a model student, Allie doesn't take well to The Academie's militaristic nature or its 16 foot perimeter fences. Remembering all she's left behind, including the boyfriend she's now years away from seeing again, Allie plummets into depression. But when strange things begin to happen and her brother disappears, Allie realizes she must unravel the mystery that is The Academie--before it's too late

January 2012 Entry #7 Trinity

2012-01-07T00:15:00.003-06:00

Title: Trinity
Author: Deena Remiel
Trailer Creator: Deena Remiel

Blurb:
One way or another, terror will reign tonight.

School teacher and single mom, Emma Livingston, has been through hell—and back so she thinks. While dealing with the night terrors and active imagination of her five-year old daughter, Hannah, she attempts to lead a normal life. That is, until the demon from those nightmares pays her a visit, too, and threatens both of their lives. Desperate, she reaches out for help—and finds Michael waiting.

Michael D’Angelo is known to everyone in Prophet’s Point, Arizona, as their loving elementary school principal. But to The Brethren, he is the most powerful Protector. Immortal and angelic does not mean he’s without doubts or fears, as protecting Emma and Hannah from Evil tests his ability to fight his tortured past.

As the Trinity is formed, ancient secrets are revealed and faith is tested. When a prophecy is exposed, Hannah becomes the main target and Emma wonders if a normal life will ever be possible again. Hope is like an anchor, but can a mother, her daughter, and an angel overcome the evil determined to annihilate the world?

January 2012 Entry #6 The Night After Christmas

2012-01-06T00:15:00.001-06:00

Title: THE NIGHT AFTER CHRISTMAS
Author: Michael Hebler
Trailer Creator: Michael Hebler

Blurb:
This is a video audiobook reading of entire story of 'The Night After Christmas', which follows Santa's return to the North Pole after completing his busiest night of the year.

January 2012 Entry #5 Psyche's Prophecy

2012-01-05T00:15:00.002-06:00

Title: Psyche's Prophecy
Author: Ann Gimpel
Trailer Creator: Blazing Trailers/ Kim MacDougal

Blurb:
What if your psychotherapist could really see into your soul? Picture all those secrets lying hidden, perhaps squirming a bit, just out of view. Would you invite your analyst to take a peek behind that gossamer curtain? Read your aura? Scry your future…?

Classically trained at the Jung Institute in Zurich, Doctor Lara McInnis has a special gift that helps her with her patients. Born with “the sight” she can read auras, while flirting with a somewhat elusive ability to foretell the future. Lara becomes alarmed when several of her patients—and a student or two—tell her about the same cataclysmic dream. Reaching out to the Institute for answers, Lara’s paranormal ability sounds a sharp warning and she runs up hard against a dead end. Her search for assistance leads her to a Sidhe and ancient Celtic rituals blaze their way into her life. Complicating the picture is a deranged patient who’s been hell bent on destroying Lara ever since she tried to help his abused wife, a boyfriend with a long-buried secret and a society that’s crumbling to dust as shortages of everything from electricity to food escalate

January 2012 Entry #4 Webs of Fate

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January 2012 Entry #3 The Red Boots

2012-01-03T00:15:00.001-06:00

Title: The Red Boots
Author: Linda Kuhlmann
Trailer Creator: StrikeZoneCreative

Blurb:
In the midst of a manhunt for a serial killer in Dublin, Shannon O’Toole, a young sculptor, is forced to confront her past. Surrounded by the seamy side of gallery life, she is drawn to her estranged father in Oregon and finds that crime and violence have followed her. Unknowingly, she has attracted the Dublin killer and is at risk for herself and those around her. Relying on her inner strengths and a rare confluence of the Irish Garda, the FBI, and the IRS, the killer is brought to justice in this story of intercontinental intrigue.

January 2012 Entry #2 Under The Same Sky

2012-01-02T00:15:00.003-06:00

Title: Under The Same Sky
Author: Genevieve Graham
Trailer Creator: Genevieve Graham

Blurb:
The year is 1746. A young, beautiful woman from South Carolina and a Scottish Highlander share an intimacy and devotion beyond their understanding. They've known each other their entire lives ... yet they have never met.

Gifted with "the Sight", Maggie Johnson dreams of a presence she calls Wolf, watching him grow from a careless young boy into a fearsome warrior. And when her life is torn asunder, he is her only hope.

January 2012 Entry #1 Exchange

2012-01-01T00:15:00.002-06:00

Title: Exchange
Author: Rachel Rossano
Trailer Creator: Rachel Rossano

Blurb:
Isolated on a distant planet, she is incarcerated for a crime she doesn’t recall. She has no name, no idea where she came from, or why she is injected with drugs daily to hold these vital facts from her grasp. Despite small rebellions, she wastes away, worn and losing hope of ever being whole again.

Then he arrives. Claiming to hold the answers burned daily from her brain, he offers her a way out. But at what cost?

Congratulations December 2011 First Place Winner: Rae of Hope

2011-12-30T00:15:00.002-06:00

Title: RAE OF HOPE
Author: W.J. May
Trailer Creator: W.J. May

Blurb:
How hard do you have to shake a family tree to find out the truth about the past?

Fifteen-year-old Rae Kerrigan never questioned her family’s history. That is until she accepted a scholarship to Guilder Boarding School in England. Guilder is an exclusive, gifted school. Rae has no idea what she is getting herself into or that her family’s past is going to come back and taunt her.

She learns she is part of an unparalleled group of individuals who become inked with a unique tattoo (tatu) on their sixteenth birthday. The tatu enables them to have supernatural powers particular to the shape of their ink-art. Both of her parents where inked, though Rae never knew, as they passed away when she was young. Learning about her family's past, her evil father and sacrificial mother, Rae needs to decide if there is a ray of hope in her own life.

Congratulations December 2011 Second Place Winner: Love Delivered

2011-12-29T00:15:00.002-06:00

Title: Love Delivered
Author: Joya Fields
Trailer Creator: Joya Fields

Blurb:
Bianca McClain has worked for years to achieve her dream job in New York City. After her grandmother passes away, she finds herself returning to the small town she grew up in to ready her house for sale. The slow, friendly pace of the town and its citizens, especially Pete the mailman, appeal to her—but there’s no way she’s giving up everything she’s accomplished in New York.

Born and raised in Centreville, MD, Pete Schaeffer loves his small town mail carrier job and can’t imagine leaving for any reason—or anyone—so he's dumbfounded by his intense attraction to Bianca, a woman with a fast-paced life in the big city.

Pete and Bianca soon find themselves lost in each other’s arms. When the summer ends, they will have big decisions to make. Will the small-town guy and big-city girl find common ground and lasting love, or will their differences drive them apart?

Congratulations December 2011 Third Place Winner: The Unhewn Stone

2011-12-28T00:15:00.003-06:00

Title: The Unhewn Stone
Author: Wendy Laharnar
Trailer Creator: Mark Laharnar

Blurb:
Immersed in the turbulent events of the Wilhelm Tell legend, modernSwiss teen, Stefan Gessler, tries to change the course of history. Foolishly, he pretends to be a wizard when an avaricious sibylmistakes him for an alchemist. The shape-shifting sibyl and an evilknight have diabolical reasons to want this wizard dead. Being facedwith his own demons and those of medieval Switzerland, how willStefan complete his mission and escape the fourteenth century alive?

Congratulations December 2011 YGR BEST VIDEO WINNERS!

2011-12-27T00:15:00.005-06:00

CONGRATULATIONS

TO THE YOU GOTTA READ VIDEOS

December 2011 WINNERS!

First Place

Title: Rae of Hope
Author: W.J. May
Trailer Creator: W.J. May

Second Place

Title: Love Delivered
Author: Joya Fields
Trailer Creator: Joya Fields

Third Place

Title: The Unhewn Stone
Author: Wendy Laharnar
Trailer Creator: Mark Laharnar

December 2011 Best Video Trailer Voting Now OPEN!

2011-12-21T00:15:00.001-06:00

Thank you everyone for your entries. The Voting Poll is now posted for DECEMBER 2011 YGR BEST VIDEO TRAILER! You can use the index on the right hand sidebar to view the videos or scroll down the page. Feel free to leave comments to encourage the authors and trailer creators. Tell your family and friends - Get out and vote! Voting will close 12:01 AM Central December 27.

Winners will be announced December 27th, the 3rd place winner featured on the 28th, 2nd place on the 29th and 1st place on the 30th.

SUBMISSIONS ARE NEARLY FULL FOR January 2012. SUBMISSIONS ARE BEING ACCEPTED FOR THE REMAINING SLOTS IN January 2012 and for February 2012!! Remember that we schedule postings by receipt date.

December 2011 Entry #20 Whispers

2011-12-20T00:15:00.002-06:00

Title:Whispers
Author:Suzanne Rock
Trailer Creator:Suzanne Rock

Blurb:
Rose is skeptical when Lady Denville hires her to take care of some ghosts in her townhouse. She expects to find a nest of rats or branches scraping against a window. Instead she finds two sexy spirits intent on fulfilling her every sexual desire. They introduce her to a whole new world of pleasure — and a curse that may destroy them all.

Lionel and Jonathan have been trapped in the townhouse for decades, waiting. When Rose walks in, they know that she is the one with the power to save them. The key to their freedom lies within reach, and both men must put aside their differences if they ever hope to break the curse that binds them to the townhouse. As the men set out to seduce Rose and gain their freedom, their sexual desire turns into something more. Now they must be honest with the woman they love, or stay imprisoned in the spirit world forever.

December 2011 Entry #19 Northern Cross

2011-12-19T00:15:00.002-06:00

Title: Northern Cross
Author: Christopher Hudson
Trailer Creator: Kim Chatel

Blurb:
Private pilot George Ashton seems to have it all: the dream job, the beautiful wife, the lovely home...and twenty-five years of guilt from a college caper gone murderously wrong. When his past catches up with him in the sinister form of Brady Keyes, it's all too clear that the visit is about more than just sharing old times. Brady is looking for a pilot to fly a very special--and highly illegal--mission. Manipulated and exploited, George piles betrayal on betrayal in a desperate attempt to reclaim his life--and as the stakes escalate, he discovers that to challenge the forces ranged against him, he must dare as he never dreamed

December 2011 Entry #18 The Crown of Anavrea

2011-12-18T00:15:00.004-06:00

Title: The Crown of Anavrea
Author: Rachel Rossano
Trailer Creator: Rachel Rossano

Blurb:
In a time when castles were the strongest...in a place where combat was face to face...Labren was on the run. He hid his true name and he admitted it freely.

In a time when slavery was legal...in a place where kings were all-powerful...Eve, a slave, appeared in the right place at the right time.

Eve saved his life. In return, he offered her the opportunity of freedom. She did not know what would happen to her if she chose to accept his proposal, but she did know the consequences of rejecting it.

December 2011 Entry #17 Haunting Magic

2011-12-17T00:15:00.001-06:00

Title: Haunting Magic
Author: Raine Delight
Trailer Creator: Sharita Lira

Blurb:
A wolf shifter finds that falling in love is not the only problem he has. Can he convince Jaxon that his love is true?

For wolf shifter Rod Dracon finding his destined mate just got harder for the woman his wolf wanted was none other than Jaxon Sinclair. A woman who would sneer and quip about his life but he couldn’t deny that she called to him on a primal level. Now the question is can this wolf shifter claim his mate before she walks away….forever.

December 2011 Entry #16 Amelia Frump and her Peanut Butter Loving, Overactive Imagination

2011-12-16T00:15:00.002-06:00

Title: Amelia Frump and her Peanut Butter Loving, Overactive Imagination
Author: Debbie Roppolo
Trailer Creator: Debbie Roppolo

Blurb:
Amelia Frump has a problem: an overactive imagination that sometimes gets her into trouble. One night, as the winds howl through the treetops, Amelia sees a spooky, bony finger tapping on the glass outside her bedroom window. Can her wild imagination save her in time, or will she be the final ingredient in a Grubby Sock Casserole?

December 2011 Entry #15 Gold, Frankincense and Murder

2011-12-15T00:15:00.003-06:00

Title: Gold, Frankincense and Murder
Author: Barbara Early
Trailer Creator: Barbara Early

Blurb:
High school geometry teacher, Donna Russell likes her life well-ordered and logical, even if it is a tad solitary at times. But when a charming co-worker at the local food bank disappears just before Christmas, Donna is left with more questions than solutions.

After the missing man's neighbor, muscle-bound EMT Sam Holton, volunteers as Donna's crime-fighting sidekick, sparks fly between them. Donna wonders if Sam can be trusted, or if he's trying to throw an unknown into her calculations—and her life.

And when police recover a body from the icy Niagara River, Donna is faced with the most frustrating equation of all: can murder plus mayhem ever equal romance?

December 2011 Entry #14 Playing For Keeps

2011-12-14T00:15:00.002-06:00

Title: Playing For Keeps
Author: Liz Matis
Trailer Creator: Liz Matis

Blurb:
Journalist Samantha Jameson always wanted to be one of the boys, but Ryan Terell won’t let her join the club. Fresh from the battlegrounds of Iraq, reporting on a bunch of overgrown boys playing pro football is just the change of scenery she needs. If trying to be taken seriously in the world of sports writing wasn’t hard enough, Ryan, her college crush, is only making it harder. As a tight-end for the team she’s covering, he is strictly off limits.

Ryan Terell is a playmaker on and off the field, but when Samantha uncovers his moves, he throws out the playbook. Just as he claims his sweetest victory, Samantha’s investigation into a steroid scandal involving his team forces him to call a time-out to their off the record trysts. But then a life threatening injury on the field will force them both to decide just how far they’ll go to win the game.

December 2011 Entry #13 Brimstone and Lily

2011-12-13T00:15:00.001-06:00

Title: Brimstone and Lily
Author: Terry Kroenung
Trailer Creator: Janet Smith

Blurb:
Precocious twelve year-old Verity Sauveur, a red-haired tomboy, lives and plays at Ford’s Theatre in 1862. As the Civil War rages, Verity, best friend Eddie, and anxious single mother Ellen work backstage, helping John Wilkes Booth rehearse Macbeth. Verity falls through the basement floor into an ancient chamber, where she discovers a magical sword that is activated by the stone she has worn around her neck since birth. That sword contains the wisecracking spirit of a boy which she decides to call Jasper. He tells Verity that she is the Stone-Warden, chosen by prophecy to undo a terrible wrong perpetrated on the world by the Honourable Company. This evil corporation’s sorcery has placed every nation into its most conflict-riddled time. In France Napoleon rules, in England Catholics and Protestants plot during Elizabeth I’s reign, in Spain Christians and Moors slay one another. Italy struggles through the Renaissance. Germany still endures the Thirty Years War. Ireland is populated by characters from literature and Scandinavia is home to all manner of fairy tale creatures.

Sword and stone together grant special powers to Verity: strength, speed, enhanced senses, the talent to shift the sword (and herself) into almost any useful shape. She also understands the speech of animals, which comes in handy when Verity acquires as allies a Cockney mouse, a pirate queen parrot, pelicans, seagulls, and a platoon of rats with speech impediments.

Forced to flee home when the Company learns of her new status, Verity and her animal companions, along with friend Eddie, freed slave Romulus, and a Confederate cavalryman who might be a double agent, begin a hazardous journey across Virginia. Civil War battles, demons, an Assassins’ Guild, corrupted mages, undead Rebel soldiers, manure monsters, and Verity’s own doubts lie in their way. To make matters worse, Verity’s beloved mother has disappeared and they must hunt for her while preserving their own skins.

December 2011 Entry #12 Vampires are Forever

2011-12-12T12:13:00.001-06:00

Title: Vampires are Forever
Author: Tony-Paul de Vissage
Trailer Creator: Toni V. Sweeney

Blurb:
In 1829, the good men of Balleywalegh drove a monster from their midst...but now it appears the vampire is back.

Karel Novotny is also a foreigner and he has the same name as the fiend but surely this handsome young man can't be a vampire. The lasses of the village adore him, including Brigid Flannery whom he's begun squiring around town. Brigid's dad, Seamus, doesn't believe in vampires, but when the girls begin to fall ill of a mysterious illness and their father's start to sharpen their stakes, it's up to him to discover the truth. Otherwise Karel wont' live to be his son-in-law and may end up on the business end of a wooden stake!

December 2011 Entry #11 Love Delivered

2011-12-11T00:15:00.002-06:00

December 2011 Entry #10 Yesterday's Darkness

2011-12-10T00:15:00.002-06:00

Title: Yesterday's Darkness
Author: Carl Henegan
Trailer Creator: Carl Henegan

Blurb:
In Carl Henegan’s first released novel he delivers a rollercoaster ride with dramatic perfection. Yesterday’s Darkness pulls you in and shakes your senses till you are hanging on every chapter. It will keep you hooked and guessing till you are obsessed with his suspenseful method of storytelling.
The opening scene finds bar owner Michael Andrews performing his normal duties working as the bouncer at his own establishment. After working for, then owning the Memphis bar for nearly seven years, nothing can surprise him. That was until he was confronted by the after effects of an event that occurred some fifteen years before.
When Mike realizes that the relentless repercussions of his past was not going away, he made a tough choice. With his life and his family’s life in jeopardy, for the first time ever he is introduced to real fear. It was represented in human form and walked into his bar, like yesterday’s darkness.

December 2011 Entry #9 The Tantric Principle

2011-12-09T00:15:00.001-06:00

Title: The Tantric Principle
Author: Jennifer Probst
Trailer Creator: Jennifer Probst

Blurb:
Arianna Devlin is a high powered advertising executive with ambition and too much stress. Desperate for balance, she enrolls in a yoga school to teach her certain lessons. Breathe. Stay calm. Be in the moment. And ignore her sexy yoga teacher who is becoming a major distraction…

Grant Madison runs a yoga school and lives by one code: don’t get involved with the students. But when Arianna walks into his studio, his resolve begins to crumble. He offers her a deal: a secret affair while in the studio, and the practice of tantric sex in the bedroom…

But when lust turns into love, Arianna and Grant are forced to make a difficult choice. Can Arianna reject the career opportunity of a lifetime for the possibility of love? Can Grant ignore his past and take a chance on the future?

December 2011 Entry #8 The Calling of Mike Malone

2011-12-08T00:15:00.001-06:00

Title: The Calling of Mike Malone
Author: M.L. Archer
Trailer Creator: Rita Betti

Blurb:
What would you do if your father wasn’t human? Ask Mike Malone, he knows…

December 2011 Entry #7 Barbarian Blood Royal

2011-12-07T00:15:00.002-06:00

Title: Barbarian Blood Royal
Author: Toni V. Sweeney
Trailer Creator: Toni V. Sweeney

Blurb:
Riven kan Ingan, once the king's favorite, has died in a rebellion against the new sovereign but his sons escape the massacre. Separated, they grow up in foreign lands, with only one goal in mind: to avenge their father's death. When they meet again as adults, they carry out their plan and return to Francovia to overthrow the king. Out of the kingdom's ashes, a new dynasty will rise, with one of Riven's sons as the new king.

"Where the Willing Suspension of Disbelief Reigns"

December 2011 Entry #6 The Finer Gentleman

2011-12-06T00:15:00.001-06:00

Title: The Finer Gentleman
Author: Icy Snow Blackstone
Trailer Creator: Toni V. Sweeney

Blurb:
Sar Trant was always aware he was descended from an Arcanian lord's illegitimate son but he never thought he'd gain a title because of it. Now Sar's heading to Arcanis to take his place among the nobility. He can't know that a predatory female lies in wait and his marriage, his happiness, and his very life will be changed forever by what happens next.

December 2011 Entry #5 Rae of Hope

2011-12-05T00:15:00.002-06:00

December 2011 Entry #4 Fingers and Other Fantastic Stories

2011-12-04T00:15:00.001-06:00

Title: Fingers and other fantastic stories
Author: Marian COMAN
Trailer Creator: Paul PETRE

Blurb:
“When it comes to the Romania writers the one name that impressed me lately and that comes immediately into my mind because of this fact is Marian Coman.” (The Dark Wolf Fantasy Review)

December 2011 Entry #3 Not Good Enough

2011-12-03T00:15:00.001-06:00

Title: Not Good Enough
Author: G.E. Stills
Trailer Creator: G.E. Stills

Blurb:
The pleasure cruise is turning into a nightmare. The evening before, Jay asks a pair of attractive ladies to dance. One of them heaps insults on him and tells him he’s not good enough. He doesn’t even know their names but in his opinion, the two are nothing but trouble. After being thrown overboard, he drifts ashore on a island. To his dismay, he discovers that one of them has washed ashore with him. Swallowing his anger and cursing his rotten luck, he assists her away for the surf and sets out to find help.

While trying to apologize to Mr. Smiles, Trish sees the two men throw him overboard. She tries to rescue him and is tossed over herself. When she regains conscious, she is looking up into his non-smiling face. Stranded alone with him on an island, she wonders if he will assist her or leave her to fend for herself.

December 2011 Entry #2 The Unhewn Stone

2011-12-02T00:15:00.003-06:00

December 2011 Entry #1 The Leah Ryan Mysteries

2011-12-01T00:15:00.005-06:00

Title:The Leah Ryan Mysteries
Author: Tracy Sharp
Trailer Creator: Justin James

Blurb :
Reformed car thief Leah Ryan is trouble. But she is keeping her nose clean when her Jeep is repossessed. Unfortunately, most of her money is going toward past due attorney fees for her younger brother Jesse; a mischievous hacker serving his last few weeks in prison. Without a way to get to her construction job, she is fired. Leah needs a job fast. She’s a natural at stealing cars, and decides to ask Callahan Parker, the man who repossessed her Jeep, to hire her. This decision marks the beginning of a nightmare for Leah Ryan.

During her first night of work, Leah makes an enemy of a twisted drug lord, Brent Woodard, who targets her for revenge. Things go from bad to worse when Leah discovers that Woodard is smuggling Asian women into the United States and forcing them into prostitution. She is determined to stop him, by any means necessary. But Woodard has friends. Among these is a crooked, sadistic cop who makes her plan more dangerous than she could have ever imagined. Soon it’s not only her life at stake, but that of her brother Jesse, who disappears within a day of his release from prison. Leah enlists the help of Callahan and a few friends from her shady past; a past she promised herself she’d never return to, to enter into a dark underworld of sex, drugs and death.

Congratulations November 2011 First Place Winner: Right Now Is Perfect

2011-11-30T00:15:00.003-06:00

Title: Right Now Is Perfect
Author: Carol Anita Ryan
Trailer Creator: Dee Ledua

Blurb:
Right Now Is Perfect: A Romance, An Adventure, The Unexpected Thereafter, is for anyone who has dreamed of finding a soul mate, ditching a career, and sailing into the sunset. It is also for those more practical types who would rather read about it. While vicariously sailing aboard a 36 foot yacht, the reader discovers some of the most isolated and beautiful islands on earth—the Marquesas, the Tuamotos, Tahiti, Moorea, Huahine, Bora Bora, the Cook Islands, Samoa, American Samoa, Fiji, and New Zealand are the landfalls. The narrator and her free-spirited lover must adapt to living on land when the sailing adventure ends. Just when it seems they will live ‘happily ever after’ an unexpected development throws everything into question.

Congratulations November 2011 Second Place Winner: Bad Spelling (Book 1 of the Witches of Galdorheim series)

2011-11-29T00:15:00.002-06:00

Title: Bad Spelling (Book 1 of the Witches of Galdorheim series)
Author: Marva Dasef
Trailer Creator: Marva Dasef

Blurb:
If you’re a witch living on a remote arctic island, and the entire island runs on magic, lacking magical skills is not just an inconvenience, it can be a matter of life and death–or, at least, a darn good reason to run away from home.

Katrina’s spells don’t just fizzle; they backfire with spectacular results, oftentimes involving green goo. A failure as a witch, Kat decides to run away and find her dead father’s non-magical family. But before she can, she stumbles onto why her magic is out of whack: a curse from a Siberian shaman.

The young witch, accompanied by her half-vampire brother, must travel to the Hall of the Mountain King and the farthest reaches of Siberia to regain her magic, dodging attacks by the shaman along the way.

Congratulations November 2011 Third Place Winner: Dragon Lover

2011-11-28T00:15:00.000-06:00

Title: Dragon Lover
Author: Jeanne Guzman
Trailer Creator: Jeanne Guzman

Blurb:
For eighteen years Kimball Crossley trained for the day she’d come face-to-face with the demon who murdered her parents. Nothing could’ve prepared her for the dragon who would change her life forever.
Dmitri of the Langhier Clan is one of the elite Dragon Hunters. For eighteen years he’s stood against evil, believing he’ll forever be a warrior for his people. That is, until the night he’s confronted with his future.
With whispers of war in the air, can Kimball learn to trust what she’s always hated and accept her love for the Dragon Hunter? Dmitri’s skills as a hunter are superior, but can he accept that women, particularly his woman, can be as strong in mind and body as any well-trained hunter? Can they put aside their differences long enough to save both their worlds?

Congratulations November 2011 YGR BEST VIDEO WINNERS!

2011-11-27T00:15:00.001-06:00

CONGRATULATIONS

TO THE YOU GOTTA READ VIDEOS

November 2011 WINNERS!

First Place

Title: Right Now Is Perfect
Author: Carol Anita Ryan
Trailer Creator: Dee Ledua

Second Place

Title: Bad Spelling (Book 1 of the Witches of Galdorheim series)
Author: Marva Dasef
Trailer Creator: Marva Dasef

Third Place

Title: Dragon Lover
Author: Jeanne Guzman
Trailer Creator: Jeanne Guzman

November 2011 YGR Best Video Trailer Voting Now OPEN!

2011-11-21T00:15:00.003-06:00

Thank you everyone for your entries. The Voting Poll is now posted for NOVEMBER 2011 YGR BEST VIDEO TRAILER! You can use the index on the right hand sidebar to view the videos or scroll down the page. Feel free to leave comments to encourage the authors and trailer creators. Tell your family and friends - Get out and vote! Voting will close 12:01 AM Central November 27.

Winners will be announced November 27th, the 3rd place winner featured on the 28th, 2nd place on the 29th and 1st place on the 30th.

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November 2011 Entry #20 Shiver

2011-11-20T00:15:00.001-06:00

Title: Shiver
Author: Remmy Duchene
Trailer Creator: Justin James

Blurb :
Zeus, King of the Gods, has a rather annoying habit of mating with those he shouldn’t. This time, he mated with Anemos, Goddess of the storm winds.
Hera, the consort of the mighty Zeus, has finally had enough, and has cursed any offspring the two may have—Hera's curse creates the Shivers.

Ciro Pyktis is the oldest of the Shivers. Somehow along the way it becomes his duty to protect the humans from another hell Zeus has unleashed on them, another Shiver. But when the Shiver he must destroy is his own brother, Ciro knows his life is over. That is until Carter Olabasu.

Carter Olabasu has just admitted to his brother that he is gay. How in the world is he going to explain to his brother that he might also be in love with a Shiver? Can he deny the heat and desire he feels for this very strange man?
Will he be able to love this man when he finds out what he is? And what about when everything comes full circle? A war has been waged, but who will triumph?

Who will be left standing once the storm subsides?

November 2011 Entry #19 Danube In Candlelight

2011-11-19T00:15:00.001-06:00

Title: Danube In Candlelight
Author: Stephanie Burkhart
Trailer Creator: Stephanie Burkhart

Blurb:
Morgan Duma has always known she's different. Her eyes have unusual gold rings around her irises, a trait she's inherited from her father. She's faster and stronger than most. Her endurance and stamina allow her to complete tasks in a quick and efficient fashion. Since she was a little girl, she knew there was only one man for her – Adam Varga.

Morgan learned to dance in Adam's arms. They grew up playing the piano together. Adam's calm, soothing presence was the perfect complement to her restless soul. Not only that, he shared her differences down to his feral eyes.

Enter Zoltan Kristos, Hungary's Minister of Reconstruction He shares those same golden eyes that Morgan possesses. After Zoltan carries her mother's injured body out of a blazing fire, Morgan's life takes a turn she doesn't expect. Morgan discovers the reasons for her differences, and questions her very identity. Is Adam strong enough to be the man she needs him to be?

November 2011 Entry #18 Saved from a Killer: Book 2 in The Snatcher Series

2011-11-18T22:11:00.002-06:00

Title: Saved from a Killer: Book 2 in The Snatcher Series
Author: Miranda Stowe
Trailer Creator: Linda Kage

Blurb:
He took seven before her. Seven died. Jenna Daggert is the first survivor to escape the Miners Bend Woman Snatcher, yet she has no memory of her captivity. As everyone else urges her to remember, one faceless man is determined to keep her silent. Forever.

Deputy Joseph Morgan fell for Jenna before he ever met her. Now that she's alive and back in the flesh, she wants him to be the one to heal her battered soul. But her idea of healing isn't what he expects. While she leads him down a dark path into lust, he grows intimidated, not sure if he can draw her back into the light and return her to the woman she used to be...or if the Snatcher will strike first.

November 2011 Entry #17 Black Scars

2011-11-17T00:15:00.001-06:00

Title: BLACK SCARS
Author: Steven Montano
Trailer Creator: Liberty Montano

Blurb:
Book 2 of the BLOOD SKIES series: Post-Apocalyptic Military Dark Fantasy. With vampires. Southern Claw warlock Eric Cross has been sent on a mission to locate the mysterious Woman in the Ice, an entity who may hold the key to stopping an ancient evil. Cross' mission is complicated when he is forced to join forces with corrupt prison wardens and survive in the deadly vampire city-state of Krul.

November 2011 Entry #16 A Man of His Word

2011-11-16T00:15:00.001-06:00

Title: A Man of His Word
Author: Sarah M. Anderson
Trailer Creator: Bella Media Managment

Blurb:
A WOMAN WITH A GUN

Dan Armstrong can’t tell if the figure in the trees is a ghost, an Indian princess, or a hallucination—until she takes a shot at him and disappears without a trace. With only the bullet hole in his hat as proof, he starts looking around for a beautiful woman with a grudge. Rosebud Donnelly fits the bill. She’s beautiful, she’s an Indian, and she’s the tribal lawyer suing his family over water rights. But does she really want him dead? There’s only one way to find out. As he gets closer to Rosebud, Dan can’t tell which is in more danger—his head or his heart.

A MAN WORTH FIGHTING FOR

Attorney Rosebud Donnelly has a case to win. And she never lets anyone see her sweat. But her first meeting with Dan Armstrong doesn’t go according to script. No one warned her that the COO of the company she’s fighting would be so…manly. From his storm-colored eyes to his well-worn boots, Dan is an honest-to-goodness cowboy. But is he honest? Her yearning for the Texas tycoon goes against reason, against family loyalty, against everything she thought she believed in. And yet, in Dan’s strong arms, Rosebud feels she might be ready to risk everything for one more kiss….

November 2011 Entry #15 Boss Bitch Swag

2011-11-15T00:15:00.001-06:00

Title: Boss Bitch Swag
Author: Cynthia White
Trailer Creator: GWE

Blurb:
How does a married woman who has never once been unfaithful to her husband contract HIV?

Meesha Clark, a gorgeous young wife, mother, and budding fashion designer, is forced to ask herself that very question when what she thought would be a routine prenatal checkup turns out to be anything but routine...

Meesha meets the man she wants to devote her entire life to while she's still in high school.... Falling in love with Boss, though, is the easy part; staying in love will prove to be a much harder task. When Meesha discovers that her heart's desire is not only a well-connected gangster, but is also next in line to head the mob that controls the entire city of St. Louis, she must make the most difficult decision of her entire young life. When she decides to stand by her man, it becomes painfully clear that, even though she's the only woman in his heart, she's not the only woman in his bed...

Malcolm "Boss" Clark knows better than to fall for a girl almost ten years younger than him. He's a man, and Meesha is just a girl, but there's something about her that won't let Boss walk away. Their relationship moves fast and burns hot, much like the city they call home. In the blink of an eye, they find themselves dangerously in love with two small daughters and their first son on the way. The love soon turns to hate, though, when Meesha's doctor breaks the news to her that she's HIV-positive. Certain that Boss contracted the virus from one of his numerous affairs, an emotionally distraught Meesha locks herself in a bathroom with her husband, then proceeds to point his own gun in his face and demand answers - but will the truth set her free, or just keep her bound...?

November 2011 Entry #14 Right Now Is Perfect

2011-11-14T00:15:00.003-06:00

November 2011 Entry #13 Unholy Pursuits

2011-11-13T00:15:00.002-06:00

Title: Unholy Pursuits
Author: Suzanne Rock
Trailer Creator: Suzanne Rock

Blurb:
Darien let his guard down once, and Arianne stole the demon stone from under his nose. Now he has to get it back, no matter what the cost. It doesn’t matter that the feisty redhead calms the voices in his head, or that her body tempts him beyond reason. Only the stone will ensure his survival. He decides to appeal to her feminine side and use gentle seduction to get it back. As he begins, something inside him changes, and the voices in his head compel him to use pain to heighten desire.

As Darien’s touch turns dark, Arianne’s lust escalates, and a connection forms between them. Yet despite her need, she can’t let the sexy FBI agent have what he wants. If placed in the wrong hands, the stone would release an unholy force intent on destroying everything she loves—including him.

November 2011 Entry #12 Sweet Sips of Blood

2011-11-12T00:15:00.001-06:00

Title: Sweet Sips of Blood
Author: Tony-Paul de Vissage
Trailer Creator: Toni V. Sweeney

Blurb:
Some vampires want to have their cake and drink it, too…

Sweet Sips of Blood…a collection of vampire tales written with a pen dipped in crimson icing…

After the Apocalypse of 2012, humans and vampires unite to face an assault from a mutual foe…
A famous writer of vampire novels goes too far with her latest literary effort…
A vampire with a toothache seeks out an unusual dentist…

Blood will Freeze…Working-class Vampires…the Best Dentist in Orange County… and six other short stories, some whimsical, some sad, a couple horrific, but all designed to titillate, amuse, and chill…

Sometimes the vampire gets his “cake”; in others, he’s still outside, staring in through the bakery window. Like the sweet sips of blood sustaining the vampire’s existence, these stories are sweet sips of vampires’ secret souls…

November 2011 Entry #11 Bad Spelling (Book 1 of the Witches of Galdorheim series)

2011-11-11T00:15:00.003-06:00

November 2011 Entry #10 Dakota Dawn Book Trailer

2011-11-10T00:15:00.001-06:00

Title: Dakota Dawn Book Trailer
Author: Greg Michno
Trailer Creator: David Van Dusen

Blurb:
Dakota Dawn focuses in great detail on the first week of the killing spree, a great paroxysm of destruction when the Dakota succeeded, albeit fleetingly, in driving out the white man. During those seven days at least 400 white settlers were killed, the great majority innocent victims slaughtered in the most shocking manner. Nowhere else in the Western United States was there a record of such sustained attacks against a fort (Ridgely) or upon a town (New Ulm). After soldiers put down the uprising, hundreds of Dakotas were captured and put before military tribunals with little or no opportunity to present a fair defense; 38 were hanged on one massive gallows on December 26, 1862.

November 2011 Entry #9 Chase the Moon

2011-11-09T00:15:00.001-06:00

Title: Chase the Moon
Author: Lynn Hubbard
Trailer Creator: Lemon Press Publishing

Blurb:
Chase the Moon: A Historical Romance is the latest book from Lynn Hubbard, Bestselling Author of Run into the Wind

Back Cover:
Mississippi 1886

Chase Stafford traveling to his brother Brock's wedding by train runs into the glamorous Amelia Lovett. Unfortunately mistaking her for a banshee, they get started off on the wrong foot. Can Chase’s charm persuade her to give him another chance?

Amelia’'s encounter with Chase was unsettling to say the least. Nevertheless, she is bound and determined to awaken the sensations that only he can unleash. Growing up in San Francisco she cannot imagine herself living in the wilderness with Chase who is part Comanche. Could he survive in her world?

November 2011 Entry #8 The Summons

2011-11-08T00:15:00.003-06:00

Title: The Summons
Author: Angie Skelhorn
Trailer Creator: Kim McDougall

Blurb:

You should consider carefully the nature of the forces you are invoking and what effect they will have upon yourself and others. Ask for guidance not a freak show.

November 2011 Entry #7 Finding Fiona

2011-11-07T00:15:00.003-06:00

Title: Finding Fiona
Author: Emily Ann Ward
Trailer Creator: Emily Ann Ward

Blurb:
The victim of a brutal attack, Fiona remembers little about her life until she meets someone who claims to be from her past. He tells her that her parents were killed for a human replication machine. He's shocked to discover she's still alive since her body was found in the wreckage of the fire.

She soon travels to her old home in New York to figure out what happened to her and her family. She needs to find out who she is, but more importantly, confront the men who killed her parents.

November 2011 Entry #6 The Magic of Lavender

2011-11-06T00:15:00.003-05:00

Title: The Magic of Lavender
Author: Cate Masters
Trailer Creator: Cate Masters

Blurb:
Jocelyn Gibson forgot about the realm of magic. But it never forgot her. Gram always told her: don’t ignore your magical gifts, it will insult the family. But Joss didn’t realize her gifts included channeling the energy of powerful ley lines. Or that her family included a goddess. Family connections come in handy when the Lord of the Underworld kidnaps local vet Eric Hendricks. He’s an amazing lover, but Joss didn’t know she loved him until too late. With a little help from the Goddess Iris, Joss defends the new life she’s forged, and helps save the town of Boiling Springs from destruction. Once Eric escapes Hell, can she stop loving him to keep him safe?
The Magic of Lavender is the first book in The Goddess Connection series, which says: Every woman should embrace her inner goddess. What’s your connection?

November 2011 Entry #5 Dragon Lover

2011-11-05T00:15:00.002-05:00

November 2011 Entry #4 Night of Turmoil

2011-11-04T00:15:00.002-05:00

Title: Night of Turmoil
Author: Judi Phillips
Trailer Creator: Sapphire Designs

Blurb: A woman who desires safety in a country on the brink of revolution connects with a man striving for political change. Together they confront injustice head on.

November 2011 Entry #3 Saved by One, Shared by Two

2011-11-03T00:15:00.005-05:00

Title: Saved by One, Shared by Two

Author: Sylvia Ryan

Trailer Creator: Sylvia Ryan

Blurb:

Survival…that’s all Julia was hoping for when she set off alone. The EMP left nothing working and civilization crumbled rapidly. Her plan to flee to safety failed and she lay dying when Arden found her. He brought her home and saved her life.

Julia had no choice but to wait out the winter with sweet, sexy Arden and his seductive best friend, Ben. She tried to ignore the sexual tension and constant temptation of living with the men, but eventually she gave in to each man’s seduction. When both men came to the realization that they were in love with Julia, their lifelong friendship prevented them from competing for her. So, a deal was struck between them. She would accept and love them together, or not at all.

November 2011 Entry #2 The Turning Kiss

2011-11-02T00:15:00.004-05:00

Title: The Turning Kiss
Author: Eden Bradley
Trailer Creator: Saturday Buffet

Blurb:
They have nothing to lose…except the one gift they never expected to find.

Midnight Playground, Book 3

Ilana escaped a life of sex slavery, using her extraordinary beauty to survive among the few remaining wealthy humans in London. But she has higher aspirations. For two years she has haunted the BDSM dungeons of the Midnight Playground, hungering for The Turning Kiss—that deep drink that will make her one of them. An immortal vampire.

Turned out onto the streets of Edinburgh as a child, Calam’s tortured path led him to a job at the club, where he also engages in exotic and dangerous sex play with its clientele. Craving, like Ilana, the eternal escape of the Turning Kiss.

Ilana is undeniably drawn to the beautiful Scotsman, but she has no time to waste; the club takes no one over thirty. When a sinfully compelling vampire pair brings them together for an unusual foursome, she and Calam are shocked to discover it isn’t the vampires they crave, it’s the tenderness and emotion they feel for each other.

After years of seeking to feel something, anything, other than the pain of the past, the ultimate gift is within Ilana’s reach. Yet the cost—leaving her heart behind with a mortal—could be more than she can bear.

November 2011 Entry #1 Lila's Vow

2011-11-01T00:15:00.003-05:00

Title: Lila's Vow
Author: Diane Wylie
Trailer Creator: Diane Wylie

Blurb:
From the moment he lays eyes on the dark-haired beauty standing on the porch of that Gettysburg home, Jack is entranced. He has always been a man to experience all of the joys that life has to give. But now, thrust into a horrific battle for his country and his life, the only joy to be found is in Lila's arms. If only he survives...

Congratulations October 2011 First Place Winner: The Steven Noricin School for the New Race

2011-10-30T00:15:00.001-05:00

Title: The Steven Noricin School for the New Race (The Noricin Chronicles Books 1-4)

Author: Mark Sheldon
Trailer Creator: Mark Sheldon

Blurb:
You are invited to enter a world of wonder, mystery and danger. Dan Regal's journey starts at the Steven Noricin School for the New Race. On September 2nd, for a limited time, get the first four installments of Mark Sheldon's epic adventure book series in one hardcover special limited edition. 100% of the author's royalties for this special limited edition will be donated to Book Aid International (http://www.bookaid.org).

Congratulations October 2011 Second Place Winner: After Midnight

2011-10-29T00:15:00.001-05:00

Title: After Midnight
Author: Sarah Grimm
Trailer Creator: Amie Louellen/Amy Did It Productions

Blurb:
She wants to forget her past.
Isabeau Montgomery has lived a lie so long she believes it. A child prodigy all grown up and no longer performing in concert halls, she is convinced her life has everything it could possibly need. Until he enters her bar.
He wants to reclaim his.
Noah Clark came to Long Island City to get his career back on track. As the front man for the legendary rock band, Black Phoenix, his job is to secure their comeback, not get distracted by a dark haired beauty and her haunted eyes.
But he can't get her out of his head. And Noah stirs in Izzy a desire to return to the piano. Can music heal a fractured soul? Or will it tear them apart forever?
Sometimes the moment that changes everything comes After Midnight.

Congratulations October 2011 Third Place Winner: Jerusalem Maiden

2011-10-28T00:15:00.002-05:00

Title: JERUSALEM MAIDEN
Author: Talia Carner
Trailer Creator: John Ray Gutierrez

Blurb:
In 1911, in the ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem under the backward Ottoman rule, a young woman sets out to challenge God.

The feisty Esther’s life-long struggle between her passions and her strict society’s religious dictates sends her to secretly explore worlds outside her religion, city and the Holy Land.

Her artistic talent hurls her away from her husband and children into the seductive world of avant-garde art and the allure of the one man forbidden to her-- until she faces the bitter question of whether it is ever possible to reconcile her quest for individuality with the demands of her faith.

CONGRATULATIONS OCTOBER 2011 YGR BEST VIDEO WINNERS!

2011-10-27T00:30:00.000-05:00

CONGRATULATIONS

TO THE YOU GOTTA READ VIDEOS

OCTOBER 2011 WINNERS!

First Place

Title: The Steven Noricin School for the New Race (The Noricin Chronicles Books 1-4)
Author: Mark Sheldon
Trailer Creator: Mark Sheldon

Second Place

Title: After Midnight
Author: Sarah Grimm
Trailer Creator: Amie Louellen/Amy Did It Productions

Third Place

Title: JERUSALEM MAIDEN
Author: Talia Carner
Trailer Creator: John Ray Gutierrez

October 2011 YGR Best Video Trailer Voting Now OPEN!

2011-10-21T00:40:00.001-05:00

Thank you everyone for your entries. The Voting Poll is now posted for OCTOBER 2011 YGR BEST VIDEO TRAILER! You can use the index on the right hand sidebar to view the videos or scroll down the page. Feel free to leave comments to encourage the authors and trailer creators. Tell your family and friends - Get out and vote! Voting will close 12:01 AM Central October 27.

Winners will be announced October 27th, the 3rd place winner featured on the 28th, 2nd place on the 29th and 1st place on the 30th.

SUBMISSIONS ARE NEARLY FULL FOR NOVEMBER 2011. SUBMISSIONS ARE BEING ACCEPTED FOR THE REMAINING SLOTS IN NOVEMBER 2011 and for DECEMBER!! Remember that we schedule postings by receipt date.

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October 2011 Entry #20 Edith and the Mysterious Stranger

2011-10-20T00:15:00.006-05:00

Title: Edith and the Mysterious Stranger
Author: Linda Weaver Clarke
Trailer Creator: Linda Weaver Clarke

Blurb:
With mysterious letters, cattle rustlers, a spunky woman, the liar's fire, Halloween, and young love, there is always something happening. When a mysterious stranger writes to Edith, her world begins to change. For the first time, she gets to know a man's inner soul.

October 2011 Entry #19 Jerusalem Maiden

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October 2011 Entry #18 The Steven Noricin School for the New Race (The Noricin Chronicles Books 1-4)

2011-10-18T00:15:00.002-05:00

Title: The Steven Noricin School for the New Race (The Noricin Chronicles Books 1-4)
Author:Mark Sheldon
Trailer Creator: Mark Sheldon

Blurb:
You are invited to enter a world of wonder, mystery and danger. Dan Regal's journey starts at the Steven Noricin School for the New Race. On September 2nd, for a limited time, get the first four installments of Mark Sheldon's epic adventure book series in one hardcover special limited edition. 100% of the author's royalties for this special limited edition will be donated to Book Aid International (http://www.bookaid.org).

October 2011 Entry #17 Kiss it Better

2011-10-17T00:15:00.002-05:00

Title: Kiss it Better

Author: Linda Kage

Trailer Creator: Linda Kage

Blurb:

A PAST TO PLAGUE HIM...

When his sister is attacked, memories of his miserable childhood assault Reed Walker and interfere with his perfectly structured life. To add to the chaos, just when dating becomes the last thing on Reed's mind, Sophia Eschell, the very woman he's been dreaming about for the past three years, noses her way into his life.

AND A WOMAN TO HEAL HIM...

After hooking up with too many troubled men, Sophia is determined to find a normal, average guy sans baggage. She turns her attention to Reed, only to discover he has more issues than anyone. But if he can learn to open up to her, can she honestly reject him or will she kiss it all better?

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October 2011 Entry #16 The New Gettysburg Campaign Handbook book trailer

2011-10-16T00:15:00.003-05:00

Title: The New Gettysburg Campaign Handbook book trailer
Author: JD Petruzzi and Steven Stanley
Trailer Creator: David Van Dusen

Blurb Title:
The New Gettysburg Campaign Handbook is an informative full-color guide for American Civil War and Gettysburg enthusiasts of all ages. Authors J. David Petruzzi and Steven Stanley use clear and concise writing broken down into short and easy to understand chapters complete with original maps, modern and historic photographs, tables, and artwork to narrate the history of the Gettysburg Campaign from the opening battle at Brandy Station in Virginia on June 9, 1863, to the escape of Gen. Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia across the Potomac River on July 14, 1863.

Chapters include quotes of interest from participants; weather observations during the battle; a stunning photographic study of the entire campaign; a discussion of the battle's myths and controversies; biographies of select officers, civilians, and battlefield photographers; trivia about the campaign; a comprehensive order of battle; lists of suggested reading and websites.

As enjoyable to look at as it is easy to use, every casual and serious student of the Civil War and Gettysburg will want a copy of The New Gettysburg Campaign Handbook as a constant companion while reading other books on the campaign-and even as a supplement and general field guide while walking the hallowed Pennsylvania ground.

October 2011 Entry #15 Blood and Bronze

2011-10-15T00:15:00.002-05:00

Title: Blood and Bronze
Author: David J. Guyton
Trailer Creator: David J. Guyton

Blurb:
The doom of the western world is on the horizon. Hope that was promised has turned to dust, and the violent storms of rebellion begin. Armies march from distant lands to destroy Medora as it rots from within. Beings from hidden realms demand their freedom, or threaten all of mankind with their legions of the dead.

But saving them would send every living soul into darkness, and Rommus will not obey. Threads are removed from the fabric of reality and mighty nations fall. The god of war may have been robbed of his power, but there is more to this man than his enemies know.

Will Medora fall to shadow and flame? Or can our heroes bring the light of freedom to the fallen realms?

October 2011 Entry #14 The Spanish Helmet

2011-10-14T00:15:00.009-05:00

Title: The Spanish Helmet
Author: Greg Scowen
Trailer Creator: Greg Scowen

Blurb:
A phone call between two friends unleashes a series of events which threaten to shatter New Zealand's officially accepted history.

Dr. Matthew Cameron travels to New Zealand to investigate a remarkable archaeological discovery. As he follows a trail of clues scattered throughout the country, Matt is thrust into the role of student and learns about trust, love and deception. But can he succeed in revising a nation's history when the Government will stop at nothing to hide the truth?

Five centuries earlier, Francisco de Hoces is lost in the Pacific Ocean after his ship is separated from the rest of his fleet. Fate shipwrecks the San Lesmes on beautiful and mysterious shores. Can he and his crew survive amongst the natives in this extraordinary land?

The Spanish Helmet weaves together the stories of two men whose destinies are set to collide. When they do, the explosive aftermath will change New Zealand's history forever.

Greg Scowen's debut novel is a plot-driven tale of a modern-day treasure hunt and a meticulously researched conspiracy thriller which carefully blends fact and fiction.

October 2011 Entry #13 Life After the Undead

2011-10-13T00:15:00.004-05:00

Title: Life After the Undead
Author: Pembroke Sinclair
Trailer Creator: S.D. Hintz

Blurb:
The world has come to an end. It doesn’t go out with a bang, or even a whimper. It goes out in an orgy of blood and the dead rising from their graves to feast on living flesh. As democracy crumples and the world melts into anarchy, five families in the U.S. rise to protect the survivors. The undead hate a humid environment, so they are migrating westward to escape its deteriorating effects. The survivors are constructing a wall in North Platte to keep the zombie threat to the west, while tyranny rules among the humans to the east. Capable but naïve Krista is 15 when the first attacks occur, and she loses her family and barely escapes with her life. She makes her way to the wall and begins a new life. But, as the undead threat grows and dictators brainwash those she cares about, Krista must fight not only to survive but also to defend everything she holds dear—her country, her freedom, and ultimately those she loves.

October 2011 Entry #12 Honor Bound

2011-10-12T00:15:00.002-05:00

Title: Honor Bound
Author: Suzanne Rock
Trailer Creator: Suzanne Rock

Blurb:

Deep in the Hidaka Mountains, Akito is commissioned to capture the goddess of desire. He expects to use all of his samurai skills to complete the task. What he doesn’t expect is the resurrection of his deceased lover, or the number of immortals who wish them both dead.

Condemned to an eternity of loneliness, Jin curses the day the mother goddess tricked her into becoming immortal. When a seasoned samurai enters her prison, she’s determined to build the man’s desire so she can harness enough strength to break the bonds that tie her to the mountain. As the intruder makes himself known, memories long buried rise to the surface and Jin becomes desperate for Akito to believe the truth – that she is his beloved. Can she earn his trust in time, or will they both succumb to the forces that strive to keep them apart?

October 2011 Entry #11 Talons

2011-10-11T00:15:00.005-05:00

Title: Talons
Author: W. G. Griffiths
Trailer Creator: JKSCommunications

Blurb:
Jesse Brockett and Angela Perez pair up from Harbor Insurance to uncover the truth about the super computer chip robbery. Their work is hindered when they are being attacked in all directions from incredibly fast, deadly forces.

October 2011 Entry #10 Witchlanders

2011-10-10T00:15:00.005-05:00

Title: Witchlanders
Author: Lena Coakley
Trailer Creator: Lena Coakley

Blurb:
High in their mountain covens, red witches pray to the Goddess, protecting the Witchlands by throwing the bones and foretelling the future.

It’s all a fake.

At least, that’s what Ryder thinks. He doubts the witches really deserve their tithes—one quarter of all the crops his village can produce. And even if they can predict the future, what danger is there to foretell, now that his people’s old enemy, the Baen, has been defeated?

But when a terrifying new magic threatens both his village and the coven, Ryder must confront the beautiful and silent witch who holds all the secrets. Everything he’s ever believed about witches, the Baen, magic and about himself will change, when he discovers that the prophecies he’s always scorned—

Are about him."

October 2011 Entry #9 Ever: The Turning

2011-10-09T00:15:00.001-05:00

Title: EVER: THE TURNING
Author: Eden Bradley
Trailer Creator: Saturday Buffet

Blurb:
Love may die, but it is never forgotten…

A Midnight Playground story

As a young Viking in the late ninth century, Ever’s ship is destroyed in a catastrophic storm, killing his brothers and crew. Avoiding the fate of his shipmates, Ever is rescued by the beautiful, savage vampire Vérún, who lustfully Turns him from human to immortal, creating a unique and enduring bond.

But as the decades pass, Vérún becomes enveloped by the weight of time. Even Ever’s great love for her is unable to save her from her fate. But that love will last for eternity…

As the prequel to Eden Bradley's erotic vampire stories, “Ever: The Turning” connects the series’ past to its future, revealing the origin of the Midnight Playground Clubs and giving new meaning to their existence.

October 2011 Entry #8 Kiss Me, I'm Irish

2011-10-08T00:15:00.003-05:00

Title: Kiss Me, I'm Irish
Author: Bella Street
Trailer Creator: Shawn K Maravel

Blurb:
In 1813, Emily Musgrave is heading to a convent for misbehavior. But it was due to loneliness, not rebellion. In modern-day Tennessee, Liam Jackson is playing his Dobro in seedy bars and it's doing nothing for his music career--and even less for the dark places in his soul. Pixie mischief can not only change timelines, it can change hearts. Because every girl needs a little magic in her life.

October 2011 Entry #7 Dracula's Kiss, a 1 NightStand Book

2011-10-07T00:15:00.003-05:00

Title: Dracula's Kiss, a 1 NightStand book
Author: JoAnne Kenrick

Trailer Creator: JoAnne Kenrick

Blurb:

Cathela's Office Halloween Ball is a complete bust. She spills out her Dracula's Bride costume, and her vamp fetish chases away her boyfriend. Only redeeming feature to the night? Necking multiple shots of Dracula's Kiss—a lush Black Cherry Vodka cocktail—and an interlude with a gorgeous man dressed Gary Oldman style.

No one comes close to satisfying Alec Murray's needs until he meets Cathela during some lame-ass party for bankers. One taste of her blood, sweet yet darkly dangerous, he knows she's perfect for him.

A night of goth bondage is planned for one. For the other, a night of sexual control is a must. A perfect fit. Alec is compelled to reveal his true nature, but can their relationship survive his dark secret?

Release date: October / Halloween release
Author website: www.joannekenrick.com
Author FB page: www.facebook.com/joannekenrick

October 2011 Entry #6 Mixed Nuts

2011-10-06T00:15:00.002-05:00

Title: Mixed Nuts
Author: Venita Louise
Trailer Creator: Way2KoolDesigns

Blurb:
The Beals live in a upper middle class neighborhood in the mid 1960's. Frank is a jingle writer who is having more than a little trouble coming up with a shoe polish jingle. Trying to keep up with the neighbor's expensive tastes is a full time job in itself but when Frank butts heads with a Voodoo practicing Brazilian gardener he gets much more than he bargains for.

October 2011 Entry #5 Jenny's Passion

2011-10-05T00:15:00.003-05:00

Title: Jenny's Passion
Author: Diane Wylie
Trailer Creator: Diane Wylie

Blurb:
David is a solider in the 17th Pennsylvania Cavalry fighting for what he believes is right. His dark good looks and bewitching green eyes entice Southern belle, Jennifer Winston, to do things she never thought possible...she would even kill for him...

October 2011 Entry #4 Once in Every Generation

2011-10-04T00:15:00.006-05:00

Title: Once in Every Generation
Author: Lauren B. Grossman
Trailer Creator: Trailers to the Stars

Blurb:
What Terms of Endearment did for the mother-daughter relationship, Once in Every Generation does for the teacher-student connection.

Eleven-year-old Angelina Mariano was a phenomenon that happens only once in every generation. Her spectacular singing voice was incomparable. But a traumatic incident creates a debilitating phobia which destroys any dream of pursuing her passion.

As an adult, Angelina teaches private voice lessons and takes on a student whose voice she recognizes as an astonishing talent and one who has the possibility of the career that eluded her. Lisa Forester is that student. Becoming her mentor and friend, Angelina nourishes young Lisa’s talent and instills in her that which had escaped her—the confidence and belief in her own superb talent.

Unleashed, the young student’s talent launches her on a meteoric rise to stardom. At the height of Lisa’s career, a life-altering illness arises. Because of her love for Lisa, Angelina must face her own fears and dig deep down inside herself to find the courage to sing.

Relying on one another’s strength, both women must learn to face their own challenges.

Once in Every Generation is a story of relationships, courage and dreams interrupted

October 2011 Entry #3 Dreamscape

2011-10-03T00:15:00.003-05:00

Title: Dreamscape
Author: Rose Anderson
Trailer Creator: Rose Anderson

Blurb:
Unable to deny his own translucence, Dr. Jason Bowen determines his lack of physical substance could only mean one thing—he’s a ghost. Murdered more than a century before, Jason haunts his house and ponders the treachery that took his life.
When Lanie O’Keefe arrives with plans to renovate her newly purchased Victorian mansion, Jason discovers, ghost or not, he’s still very much a man.
Despite its derelict condition and haunted reputation, Lanie couldn’t be happier with her new home, but then she has no idea a spirit follows her every move throughout the day and shares her captivating warmth at night. Jason soon discovers he can travel through Lanie’s dreams and finds himself reliving the days before his murder with Lanie by his side.
It took one hundred and twenty years for love to find them, but there’s that insurmountable little matter of Jason being dead.

October 2011 Entry #2 After Midnight

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October 2011 Entry #1 Anima Venti

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Title: Anima Venti
Author: Bosley Gravel
Trailer Creator: Bosley Gravel

Blurb:
A decade of indifference, an epiphany... the brilliant Seward
Stacy woke one morning to find himself Godless and alone. Brandi-Wyne,
a beautiful women fallen from grace, as alone as he. Together they
search out a new life on a mountaintop where Seward builds a house of
many rooms, the first step in creating a family.

Their attempts to conceive a child thwarted by the limits of nature,
Seward--a long time student of the intangible--takes the matter into
his own hands. He is successful, but the results are imperfect and
slowly all that he has built begins tumbling down.