IT'S TOMORROW - PLEASE JOIN ME at the MFRW Facebook Book Party - UPDATED

The MFRW Facebook Party event was cancelled 
Sorry for all of the confusion. 
But I will be posting today about my book 
Karma Visited on my FB author page between 1-2pm (est) 
https://www.facebook.com/AuthorChelleCordero. 
Hope you will join me.

One lucky participant will win a FREE Karma Visited ebook!

Tuesday, July 1 from 1-2PM (EST)

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Introducing Tom in Within the Law - Weekend Writing Warriors / #8sunday / 06/29/14

Hi! Welcome to another Weekend Writing Warrior round. Every week writers post 8 sentences on their blogs from a published or unpublished book. Then we "hop" around and leave comments on each other's snippets. Whether our work is already published or in progress, the helpful comments help us become stronger writers on our next WIP. We welcome EVERYONE's comments.

  

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Welcome to a snippet from Within the Law. The protagonist, Tom Hughes, was created in His Lucky Charm (formerly called Forgotten). Tom is cousin to the female main character in HLC. I fell in love with Tom, I think he might be my favorite hero from all of my books. His character and his history was so compelling that I HAD to write his story, one in which he has his own HEA.

The following scene is from the prologue - I didn't even need to use any creative punctuation.

He put his hand on the bartender’s wrist as she moved the open bottle towards his glass to refill.

“That’s going to be it for me, I’ve got an early morning.” He removed his hand from her wrist and watched as she pulled her slender hand away, noting the bright red of her nails. He remembered seeing red nails like that before. It was the same red as the cherry that topped the ice cream sundae you took your girl out for on a hot summer night. It was the same red as the Ruby stone that sat in a high school ring.

It had been more than eight years since he had seen that high school ring. She had been wearing it on a gold chain around her neck as she kissed him and told him she’d see him later.

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Within the Law

Series: Chelle Cordero's Cousins Suspense, Book 2. 

Tom gave up on ever falling in love again the day that he buried his high school sweetheart and fiancé. He started a career in law enforcement just so that he could find her murderer and rapist. Just when he is about to see justice done, he meets Alli Davis-the defense attorney for the murdering rapist who took his love from him.

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an Amazon review:

Within the Law - Where Murder and Love Collide

By Todd A. Fonseca 

Eight years after the abduction and murder of his fiancé, Tom Hughes throws back his last drink pondering the next day's hearing. Her killer had been found. Consumed with rage and wanting to confront the man who took his future away, Tom leaves the bar and stumbles upon an attractive well dressed woman named Alli whose badly bloodied her knee after twisting her ankle. Uncertain why such a woman would be found so late in a rather dangerous part of town, Tom comes to her aid. Though cautious of a complete stranger wanting to help her, Tom insists ensuring that Alli does not suffer the safe fate as his fiancé years before.

At the hearing, Tom begins to think perhaps his life can finally move on with the killer to be tried and a new woman in his life. His dreams quickly unravel when he learns that Alli is the killer's attorney. Taunted by the man as they leave the courtroom, Tom beats him so badly the killer is hospitalized and later found murdered. With his life turned upside down, Tom is now accused of murder and Alli must prove his innocence.

Chelle Cordero begins Within The Law with a great setup of murder, betrayal, and plot twists that engage the reader immediately. As I read the opening chapters, I was reminded somewhat of Scott Turow's Presumed Innocent. Cordero then takes a turn I didn't expect, and the opening story arc closes. In Ken Follet style, the novel subsequently explores the tragic sequence of events keeping Tom and Alli from being together. The novel is, therefore, less courtroom murder mystery and more star-crossed love story.

Cordero's writing and plot is engaging and entertaining. One is drawn to Tom and Alli and their story just as they are drawn to one another. The dialogue is real and crisp and the novel moves quickly. Within the Law makes a great summer beach read.

Winners ~ Summer Lovin Blog Hop

Thank you all for coming by my post during
the Summer Lovin' Blog Hop.

Announcing my winners:

books4me won an Audio-book download of 

Bartlett's Rule

Kimber Shook won a Smashwords e-book copy of 

Karma Visited

Heare2Watts won a Smashwords e-book copy of 

The Many Faces of Chelle Cordero Short Story collection

Charmaine Gordon won a Smashwords e-book copy of 

Living, Breathing, Writing: A Lesson a Day Vol. 1

...and now the Grand Prize winners:

from Jane Wakely ~ the Grand Prize winners…

$75 Amazon Gift Card— Kim Turner

$25 Starbucks Gift Card— Trudy Baker Dowling

$25 Amazon (or B&N) Gift Card— Shirley Ann Speakman

Summer Lovin’ Blog Hop! ~ About Friendship

Adam is ready to talk - Weekend Writing Warriors / #8sunday / June 22, 2014

Hi! Welcome to another Weekend Writing Warrior round. Every week writers post 8 sentences on their blogs from a published or unpublished book. Then we "hop" around and leave comments on each other's snippets. Whether our work is already published or in progress, the helpful comments help us become stronger writers on our next WIP. We welcome EVERYONE's comments.

  

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Welcome to a snippet from Courage of the Heart. Courage of the Heart was originally published by Xlibris in 1999 (BEFORE they went full vanity press) - with no real marketing efforts from the publisher and before I knew much about the subject, it didn't do very well. However it was revised slightly and republished by Vanilla Heart Publishing in 2009 and has enjoyed a healthier reception.

Davie comes back from her father's to find Adam in the hospital with a serious case of pneumonia. When he is released, she stays with him to nurse him back to health.

This will be the final snippet from Courage of the Heart, next week I'll move on to another story. Your comments have helped me see different views of my writing and it's been really helpful. I used creative punctuation to make this fit:

"You said earlier that you wanted to talk."

"Yeah, Davie, this is really important…"

Davie knelt on the carpet next to the couch, "I'm here."

Adam twisted to face her, he realized he was having difficulty finding the right words to start, "It's about us, I want there to be an us, I don't know where this relationship will wind up, but suddenly I find myself thinking of tomorrow…with you. I never meant for that to happen."

"Why does that scare you?" Davie spoke softly.

"It scares me that you might not want to be a part of it," Adam swallowed and looked uncomfortably around the room; he realized that this could be the most important thing he ever had to say. His eyes finally settled on her, "Davie, there are some things I have to tell you about my past, some things that may make you walk out and never look back."

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Courage of the Heart

Sometimes love is the only cure for the very deepest of emotional wounds. The story of the two lovers takes a series of unexpected and fast paced turns where lives, sanity and love are put in jeopardy. Their commitment to one another results in a spirit that binds them together and helps them to overcome physical and emotional dangers.

Audiobook

Smashwords

Amazon (print)  

Summer Lovin’ Blog Hop! ~ About Friendship

Welcome to the 
Summer Lovin’Blog Hop

We're celebrating love, romance, & falling in love

Prizes! There are Prizes!

Please read through to the end to see how you
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The portrayal of a friend

 Writers can’t help allowing some of our ideals sneak into our works. The things that are important to us in our real lives become important to at least some of our characters.

Friendship – what it means and how it impacts our lives – has always been important to me. Quantity has never been an issue, quality is. I believe a friend is more than just someone to pal around with; a friend should be someone you can count on for support, for honesty, and for loyalty. Few things sting as much as betrayal especially when we thought that individual was a true friend. Betrayal by someone we trusted forces us to question our ability to judge people and in turn our capacity to trust.

 Many of my beloved characters have storylines which involve friendships, both good and bad. Paige Andrews in Bartlett’s Rule has a history of betrayal by people she trusted and now must find a way to trust again or lose the love she needs to heal her. In His Lucky Charm Caitlyn Smythe is able to depend on her best friend Keisha to back her up when she is doing everything possible to avoid Brandon Price; the friendship between Caitlyn and Keisha extends to their husbands, Brandon and Malcolm, and even lasts through a second book Within the Law. Another prominent friendship in these two books is the one that develops between Caitlyn’s cousin Tom Hughes and her love Brandon Price; Brandon and Tom back each other up many times in both of these books.

There is a rivalry between the heroine’s best friend Matt Garatti and the man Julie fell in love with, Jake Carlson, in Final Sin, but the two men eventually find an easy rapport and even team up when Julie’s life is threatened. The lack of friends to depend on adds to Annie Furman’s desperation in an abusive marriage until Dave Turner comes along and becomes a true friend which eventually leads to love in Karma Visited; I’m working on a sequel which will follow Annie and Dave’s in their love affair – more on that down the road. In Hostage Heart Ryan Hunter thinks he has a friend in his boss and former lover until Connie Reed tries to come between him and Deanna Blair, yet in the end Connie proves that being a friend was more important to her.

In my personal life I am blessed with a few very close friends, in some cases my friends are related by blood and in some they’ve merely come into my life through some other connection. My best friend is the man that I married. And yes I’ve known people who I thought were friends who disappointed me with disinterest and dishonesty, but even these people came into my life for a reason and that is something I won’t regret. I share that with each of my characters, they’ve all taken something from every relationship and become the “people” they were meant to be.

What does friendship mean to you?

Please comment below - I will pick random commentors for prizes such as: an Audio-book download of Bartlett's Rule; a Smashwords e-book copy of Karma Visited; a Smashwords e-book copy of The Many Faces of Chelle Cordero Short Story collection; and a Smashwords e-book copy of Living, Breathing, Writing: A Lesson a Day Vol. 1.

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Seeking comfort ~ Weekend Writing Warriors / #8sunday / 06/15/14

Hi! Welcome to another Weekend Writing Warrior round. Every week writers post 8 sentences on their blogs from a published or unpublished book. Then we "hop" around and leave comments on each other's snippets. Whether our work is already published or in progress, the helpful comments help us become stronger writers on our next WIP. We welcome EVERYONE's comments.

  

See more at the WeWriWa blog

Welcome to a snippet from Courage of the Heart. Courage of the Heart was originally published by Xlibris in 1999 (BEFORE they went full vanity press) - with no real marketing efforts from the publisher and before I knew much about the subject, it didn't do very well. However it was revised slightly and republished by Vanilla Heart Publishing in 2009 and has enjoyed a healthier reception.

Feeling rejected by Adam - again - Davie takes a bus to visit her father in time for the anniversary of her mother's passing. It's always been her habit to be with him to remember her mom together, but since she was busy the night before taking care of the very sick Adam she never got around to calling her dad about her visit. Spurned by one of the men in her life, she was ready to be comforted by her father. Imagine her surprise when she walks in on him and his special lady-friend. (btw, "Gizzy" is her childhood dog that still lives at home.)

Davie stared out the bedroom window into the dark night, she couldn’t sleep; there were so many things running through her mind. Gizzy was snoring as he lay at her feet. She was still upset that Adam had forced her to leave and she was confused to find that her father was moving on with his life without her mother and without Davie’s blessing if need be.

She had been surprised to see her father's tears at the cemetery; her father's grieving over the loss of her mother comforted Davie, at the same time she felt terrible seeing his pain. They had gone to church together and she sat with his arm around her shoulders, it was good to be with him and just him. Davie was grateful that Elizabeth understood that she would only be intruding.

On the drive home from the church, he told her that they would be having dinner with Elizabeth and that's when the fighting started.

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Courage of the Heart

Sometimes love is the only cure for the very deepest of emotional wounds. The story of the two lovers takes a series of unexpected and fast paced turns where lives, sanity and love are put in jeopardy. Their commitment to one another results in a spirit that binds them together and helps them to overcome physical and emotional dangers.

Audiobook

Smashwords

Amazon (print)  

Is this the end? ~ Weekend Writing Warriors / #8sunday / 06/08/14

Hi! Welcome to another Weekend Writing Warrior round. Every week writers post 8 sentences on their blogs from a published or unpublished book. Then we "hop" around and leave comments on each other's snippets. Whether our work is already published or in progress, the helpful comments help us become stronger writers on our next WIP. We welcome EVERYONE's comments.

  

See more at the WeWriWa blog

Welcome to a snippet from Courage of the Heart. Courage of the Heart was originally published by Xlibris in 1999 (BEFORE they went full vanity press) - with no real marketing efforts from the publisher and before I knew much about the subject, it didn't do very well. However it was revised slightly and republished by Vanilla Heart Publishing in 2009 and has enjoyed a healthier reception.

Davie and Adam has enjoyed a very amicable relationship (finally) and have spent lots of time together. Suddenly Adam is MIA from work and Davie finds him at home suffering from what he says is "just the flu". She stays to take care of him, feed him chicken soup and give him aspirin... He becomes delirious and is afraid he is going to hurt her, so he sends her away and is cruel with his words when she refuses. She tearfully leaves him alone in his misery.

Adam had never felt so sick before; he had to speak to Davie, he had to let her know he never wanted to hurt her. He struggled to get dressed and nearly gave up when he couldn't button his shirt. After he found her and apologized again, he was going to see his doctor. He felt sick.

Adam struggled to get to his front door and the exertion made him breathless. He wondered if the pain he felt in his chest was even worth the effort to breathe. Adam pulled the door closed behind him and only made it a few steps away from his door when he felt himself falling forward. He remembered thinking how far away the floor was when darkness surrounded him.

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Courage of the Heart

Sometimes love is the only cure for the very deepest of emotional wounds. The story of the two lovers takes a series of unexpected and fast paced turns where lives, sanity and love are put in jeopardy. Their commitment to one another results in a spirit that binds them together and helps them to overcome physical and emotional dangers.

Audiobook

Smashwords

Amazon (print)  

(a previously published post) 

Oy - what I put my heroes through...

I put each one of my heroes into the hospital!!!

I realized that the other day and wondered why. Am I being sadistic? Yikes.

But then I suddenly understood – vulnerability. I like knowing that my muscled and independent hunks are vulnerable. Okay, maybe hospitalizing each of them is a bit extreme, but it helps to point out how very human they are and it gives a chance for the heroines to take care of them.   (read more...)

Celebrating Audio Book Month - Courage of the Heart

Can you hear it now? YOU BET!

Courage of the Heart by Chelle Cordero is now available as an AUDIOBOOK on Audible, iTunes, and on Amazon! Also in All Ebook Formats and  Print Editions.

Courage of the Heart shows us that sometimes love is the only cure for the very deepest of emotional wounds. Adam Sherman has remained quiet about his scandalous past and is comfortable with his reputation as a womanizing and dedicated bachelor. Davie Prescott is twenty years old and a college student working part-time at the same Internet Provider where Adam is employed.

Adam is attracted to Davie, but he shies away from her innocence because he feels his shameful past is too harsh for her existence. Adam finally shares his darkest secret with Davie and is amazed to find that she doesn’t turn away from him.

But when Adam’s past catches up to him, he soon learns that there’s a lot more at stake than just his nightmares. Adam is prepared to give Davie up if need be in order to protect her until he learns that she´s got a secret of her own. With Davie´s help, Adam learns a courage that is born of love, courage of the heart. The story of the two lovers takes a series of unexpected and fast paced turns where lives, sanity and love are put in jeopardy.

Review

Courage of the Heart by Chelle Cordero begins as an office romance that quickly turns into an unlikely love affair. In one fell swoop, life changes when the past confronts the present with mystery, intrigue and life threatening situations. More than once I found my heart racing as I turned the page. Kudos to Ms. Cordero for penning an entertaining read.

kgcummings... Kathy

author of The Wind Whispers War and it's sequels

Courage of the Heart is narrated and produced by Raquel Gliss, professional voiceover artist and narrator in her early 40's specializing in the narration of romance and erotic novels.   

            

                

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