Today we are happy to welcome to Book Lovers Inc Mallory Kane who just released a sexy romantic suspense novel, No Hero in Entangled Publishing’s new category romance imprint: Deadly Sexy. Please give her a warm welcome and read on to win a copy of No Hero! (pst. with such a handsome cover model, who in my opinion looks totally like Josh Hartnett, who wouldn’t want to discover if he really is no hero? 😉 )

With a mother who was a librarian and a father who was a master storyteller, I naturally was reading from the time I was three years old and sat in my mother’s lap, making her sound out words for me. I wasn’t much older when I wrote my first story. However, it did take me a little longer to get published. My first e-book (WAY before e-readers) was published in 1995 and my first print book appeared on the shelves in 2001. I had a successful career as a pharmacist between 1972 and 1997, when I retired. At that time I began writing full time.

My first book for Entangled Publishing, NO HERO, is a launch book for Entangled’s Dead Sexy imprint. Here’s a bit about the book.

Teenagers are being murdered in New Orleans. Not just any teens, teens from Detective Devereux Gautier’s Johnson Center for Homeless Teens. Dev is determined to catch the killer before any more kids are killed, but he has no leads. Then Reghan Connor shows up, telling him she knows who the killer is. He’d be more inclined to believe her if she hadn’t exposed the past he’d worked for 20 years to hide on her TV news show. But when another teen is murdered, Dev begins to realize that Connor may have the key to catching the killer. But she nearly destroyed his career and his life once. If he works with her on this case, what will stop her from doing it again?

NO HERO is available on Amazon for $2.99. I hope you enjoy it.

Writers and readers often ask me whether I’m a plotter or a pantser (writing by the seat of my pants.)

Years ago I, like a lot of other writers, considered myself a pantser. But once I’d sold my first book to Harlequin Intrigue in 2000, I realized that I no longer had the luxury of writing a book by the seat of my pants. If I wanted to write 3 or 4 books a year, I was going to have to make some sort of plan. I worried about plotting a book out before I started writing it. I was afraid I’d lose the magic that happened when I let the book take its own path. But in fact, I don’t feel like I’m missing out on magic at all. Whether plotting or pantsing, there’s still plenty of magic.My advice for anyone who wants to write for publication is never ever ever ever ever give up. Ever. If you truly want to see your book in print, you may have to go through a lot of rejections. Don’t let them get you down.

My biggest fan was always my daddy. Every day of my life he let me know that I could do anything I put my mind to, and he treated me as if I could do anything. He taught by example, excelling at everything he did in life, from being an All-American basketball player, a winning and respected basketball coach, a decorated war hero and a beloved husband and father. He was always my biggest fan. When I published my first book, he told me that if he could write, he’d never do anything else.

I love the opportunity to talk to readers and writers. Readers, because without you, we writers would be putting all of our efforts under the bed to gather dust. Writers, because there’s nothing a writer loves to do more than talking to other writers about writing, reading and avoiding writing. We like to remind ourselves that each one of us is unique, just like all the rest of us. 🙂

Thanks so much for inviting me to be a guest today.

Keep on reading,

Mallory Kane

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No Hero by Mallory Kane

A darkly handsome New Orleans detective who insists he’s no hero is blindsided by his one-time lover, a sexy investigative TV reporter, who exposes his secret troubled past to the whole world…and nearly costs him his job. When the at-risk teens he mentors start turning up dead, his vow to protect the other kids hits a major snag…his only clue to finding the determined killer is held by the one woman he never wants to see again. Compelled to work together to solve the vicious murders before another child dies, their passion reluctantly reignites, and their mutual mistrust slowly turns to respect as she realizes there’s much more to being a hero than outward appearances, and his deeply wounded heart gradually opens to the possibility of love.

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~*~*Giveaway*~*~

Entangled Publishing has generously offered an ebook copy of No Hero by Mallory Kane to a lucky commenter!

All you have to do is leave a comment/question for Mallory or tell us why you enjoy reading romantic suspense novels?

(You can read our full giveaway policy here)

Please be sure to include a valid email address in the comment form (need not be in the actual body of the comment).

This giveaway is open to all!

Giveaway ends on Saturday, 11 August 2012; we will announce the winner on Sunday.

Good luck!

About Stella

Stella is a proud bookaholic and a self-taught multilinguist in training. Besides reading, her other great passions are travelling and baking. When she is not globetrotting she lives in sunny Budapest, where she loves to spend her free time preparing (and feasting on) delicious cookies or devouring equally yummy books. Her favourite genres are urban fantasy and romance and she couldn't live without her daily dose of sunshine. Besides being the Latin Lover on BLI Stella also blogs about books and a bookish life on Ex Libris.

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