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Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Miss White and the Seventh Heir By Jennifer Faye Excerpt, Review, FREE Bookmark & Giveaway

On Tour with Prism Book Tours

Book Tour Grand Finale for
Miss White and the Seventh Heir
By Jennifer Faye

We hope you enjoyed the tour! If you missed any of the stops
you can see snippets, as well as the link to each full post, below:

Launch - Note from the Author

Hi. :-) Welcome to the blog tour for the second book in my ONCE UPON A FAIRYTALE duet. Trey and Sage’s story is loosely based on another of my favorite fairytales, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs...


ELSA WHITE STOOD before the window of her stylish Manhattan office adorned with black furnishings and gold trim. It wasn’t just any office building. It was a skyscraper owned by White Publishing. And Elsa’s office was on the top floor. She enjoyed looking down upon the rest of the world.

From her office window, the people below looked like peons—small and inconsequential. She smiled, knowing she was so much better than them. She had money, lots of money, and a powerful reach. She was forever finding ways to make her presence in publishing even greater—legal or illegal, it made no difference to her.


"The parts that make you smile the most is when each of them sees something that either humbles or surprises them about the other whilst finding that the longer they spend time with each other the more muddling things become as they are each spending an inordinate time contemplating each other!

...Faye loves to write strong heroines and heroes who are saving their own lives!"


Knock. Knock.

Sage stood and smoothed her navy skirt down over her thighs. She then ran a hand over her hair, making sure the long dark strands weren’t out of place. She didn’t know why she was making such a fuss. It wasn’t like she was the one being interviewed.

She came around her desk and opened the door. She had to crane her neck in order to smile up at him. From behind a pair of dark-rimmed glasses his dark gaze met hers, but she was unable to read anything in his eyes. A man of mystery. She was intrigued.

She held out her hand. “Hello. My name’s Sage White.”


"Although everybody knows the outcome of this tale, the characters are unique and the added twists" are engaging! It is a refreshing change to a well-read tale.

The characters are very real, the scenes easily visualized, and the adventure steadily increases and "draws the reader into the tale".The Book Cover image and Title are both "well-fitted" to this story.

I offer a Five Stars rating."


With evening setting in, Trey continued running—pushing himself. After bumping heads with Sage most of the afternoon, he was filled with pent-up energy. That woman was so frustrating and yet so enticing. He couldn’t decide whether he wanted to yell at her or pull her into his arms and kiss her.

He let out a frustrated groan as he slowed to a walk a block from his condo. The sooner he got the information he’d come to QTR for, the better. Ever since he’d stepped inside the office, everything had grown increasingly complicated.

The shrubbery next to him shook. He came to a stop. There was no wind to explain the sudden rush of motion. It was probably a squirrel. He was about to move on when he heard a high-pitched whine. Or was it a bark. Could there be a dog in there?

Bri's Book Nook - Review

"The plot was fast moving and told from the POV of Trey, Sage, and Sage’s stepmother Elsa. . . . The world-building was also unique, as I found myself enjoying the description of the gala, the chateau, and even the office. This novel definitely didn’t just focus on the romance and forget the rest of the story. Everything flowed smoothly...

...For a short book, everything was done in a nice and orderly fashion. I had nothing to complain about."


“I’ve been waiting for you. I have news.” Sage stopped in her tracks. A ball of white fur was sticking out from under Trey’s arm. “What is that?”

He turned to her. His hair was scattered. His shirt was unbuttoned at the collar and his tie was stuffed in his pocket. “It’s more like who is this?”

She frowned at him. “I’m not playing games. Is that a dog?”

Trey nodded. “I can explain—”

“You can’t have a dog in here.”

“I didn’t have a choice.”


"This modern-day retelling of Snow White was a fun read. Both Sage and Trey are dealing with their own issues with trust, parents, and "abandonment". They have trouble trusting each other. . . . Overall, it was an enjoyable book and I can't wait to read more books by the author."

E-Romance News - Excerpt

“His name. We’ll call him Happy.”

“Really?” Trey’s gaze moved from Sage to the dog, whose tail picked up speed. “I guess it fits.” Staring at the dog, he asked, “Would you like the name Happy?”

Arf! Arf!

Sage laughed. “I think he agrees.”


"This book is sweet and intriguing. I loved the journey of catching Elsa in her evil ways. This modern Day Snow White story is worth the couple hours it will take you to read it!"

Becky on Books - Excerpt

Trey laughed. “You had a pet rat?”

“What’s so funny about that?” she asked with a perfectly straight face.

He subdued his amusement. “Nothing. It’s just that you never cease to surprise me.”

“I also had fish, a bunny—” she paused as though to think about it “—a hamster and a guinea pig.”

“You had a very interesting childhood.”

He didn’t want to stop driving. This was the first time Sage had let down her guard with him and he liked it. She was a lot different outside the office—more relaxed and much more approachable.



Sage pressed a hand to his arm. “Are you okay?”

Trey pushed away the troubling thoughts. “Of course. Why do you ask?”

“Because we’ve arrived at the hotel and you haven’t gotten out of the car.”

He glanced out the window at Cannes’ finest hotel. When he was a child he imagined this place was a palace and a rich king lived within its walls. Other times, he would pretend his father lived there, taking care of important business, and that one day he’d return home. But in truth, his father never stayed at this hotel that he knew of and his father never came home.

Trey choked down the unwanted rush of emotions. “I think I’m just tired. I can’t sleep on planes.”

Book by Book - Review

"If you’re in need of a fun, contemporary romance to read this summer, Jennifer Faye’s Miss White and the Seventh Heir could be the perfect choice for you. . . . Though it’s not entirely unpredictable, Miss White and the Seventh Heirkept me entertained from start to finish, and I enjoyed it."

Wishful Endings - Review

"MISS WHITE AND TE SEVENTH HEIR is a modern twist on the classic fairy tale, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. It's a light, fun romance with plenty of nods to the classic tale. For sweet romance readers who like their romance on the lighter side with a little heat, this one is for you."

Simply Kelina - Review

"I loved how both Sage and Quentin have family issues they are working through, which in turn leads them to pushing away from each other. I also love how they meet at work. This was a really fun and fluffy read. It even involves something for our animal lovers."


Her pulse quickened and she wondered what it would be like to kiss him. Before now, they’d always been at work where there was a constant string of people in and out of her office. There was no time for indulging in a kiss.

But tonight, all bets were off. She assured herself that exhaustion was playing with her mind. As she continued to stare at him, she knew she wasn’t alone with these wayward thoughts.

Bookworm Lisa - Review

"I loved that the characters are flawed and working to do and be better. This book is easy to read and enjoy. The romance isn't rushed, it begins as a reluctant friendship. The friendship is one of the highlights of the book. The characters how that positive relationships lead to a happy and productive life.

I enjoyed my time in this book. I give it a high recommendation."


"What a great fairy tale retelling. There are so many retellings out there that it is hard for me to give any a 5, unless they truly deserve it. They have to be different, have their own plot, be in their own time period and still have all the original things I remember form the original tale. This story has all those things."

Don't forget to grab a free bookmark and enter the giveaway below, if you haven't already...

Freebie


Grab a FREE Miss White and the Seventh Heir (Once Upon A Fairytale) Bookmark!
NOTE: A big apology but due to postal fees the freebies are only available to continental U.S. residents.

All you have to do is go to Jennifer's Contact Page and let her know your physical mailing address.
NOTE: Please state the quantity you desire and which bookmarks/titles you are interested in.

And remember you can order extra to share with your favorite bookstore, library and family/friends. :-)

Miss White and the Seventh Heir
(Once Upon a Fairytale #2)
by Jennifer Faye
Contemporary Romance
Paperback & ebook, 256 pages
June 1st 2018 by Harlequin Romance
A billionaire with a secret…

Can the truth lead to happily-ever-after?

In this Once Upon a Fairytale story, hardworking magazine editor Sage White’s just getting used to being in charge, so she’s alarmed to find sparks flying with her new assistant—the distractingly handsome Trey! Working together, they grow closer, but can their blossoming relationship survive when Sage learns that Trey is really Quentin Rousseau, seventh heir to the publishing empire—and her boss?

Other Books in the Series

Beauty and Her Boss
(Once Upon a Fairytale #1)
by Jennifer Faye
Contemporary Romance
Paperback & ebook, 256 pages
March 1st 2018 by Harlequin Romance
An innocent beauty, a scarred hero...

Could she be the one to open up his heart?

Handsome but guarded former Hollywood star Deacon Santoro prefers the confines of his mansion since an accident left him scarred both inside and out. But he promised to protect sparky beauty Gabrielle Dupre, his new PA. Can Gabrielle convince Deacon that love will give them the fairy-tale ending they deserve?

About the Author


Award-winning author, Jennifer Faye pens fun, heartwarming contemporary romances with rugged cowboys, sexy billionaires and enchanting royalty. Internationally published with books translated into nine languages. She is a two-time winner of the RT Book Reviews Reviewers' Choice Award, the CataRomance Reviewers' Choice Award, named a TOP PICK author, and been nominated for numerous other awards.



1 winner will receive a $20 Amazon Gift Card, autographed copy of BEAUTY & HER BOSS (Once Upon a Fairytale, book 1), Lindt Lindor assorted chocolate truffles, Lindt Salted Caramel bar, Whoppers, Reese's Pieces, candle, flower kit, book magnet, pen, and bookmarks
- US only
- Ends June 13th

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Ritual Tea: How the 9 Secrets of Tea Can Transform Your Life by Mario Zeleny Review


Title: Ritual Tea: How the 9 Secrets of Tea Can Transform Your Life
Author: Mario Zeleny
Publisher:
Sancti Spiritus
Pages: 200
Genre: Self-help/Inspirational
Format: Paperback/Kindle
Purchase at AMAZON
Media headlines abound these days saying, “Tea is trendy...” and we believe it until we read the first chapter of Ritual Tea: How the 9 Secrets of Tea Can Transform Your Life.   Entitled, Tea’s Sordid and Holy Exploits, chapter one is a worldwide, whirlwind tour of tea history that leaves the reader knowing once and for all that tea has always been trendy for very good reasons. Next to water, tea is the world’s most popular drink.
Author Mario Zeleny, lifelong tea lover and personal coach, extracts the magic of tea from its history, uses, and benefits but also from its power to change the world. He brings the secrets of tea into modern light, and makes it accessible for contemporary lifestyles.
“We do not have to be a Buddhist monk, or study The Way of Tea for decades to be your own Tea Master,” says Zeleny, “but you must understand its secrets to reap tea’s transformative qualities in your life.”
Ritual Tea boasts over 30 links to free tea products, ten personal rituals to help with everything from anxiety to sleep, and 10 charts that make crafting our own ritual a breeze.  
Discover the transformative power of tea hidden in its history, versatility, and essence through simple, timeless and individualized rituals. To help us on the tea path, the author has made a free Ritual Tea ecourse available through ArtSpellz.com.
Tea has made a 5000 year trek to inhabit the world and in its wake it has altered not only individual lives but cultures and countries.  Ritual Tea asks, “Who will we be in tea’s history?”  Will we just make tea, or will we allow tea make us?
First Chapter:
Tea Incarnations:

Sordid and Holy Exploits

Like most major discoveries, the invention of tea was an accident.

The history of tea reads like a myth from The Hero of a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell:



                            •           Tea went on a journey and traveled the world.

                            •           Tea has companions.

                            •           Tea altered history—politics, commerce, spiritual traditions as well as the growth of nations in addition to people’s well-being, fame and fortune.

                            •           Tea has transformed, yet remains the same.

                            •           Tea is personal and universal.

                            •           Tea has started wars and ended them.

                            •           Tea is both sacred and ordinary. 

                            •           Tea has been used as money, for negotiations, to buy a wife and as a sacred tool in monasteries.

                            •           Tea is for welcoming and saying goodbye. 

                            •           Tea has provided meaningfulness and stability, social connection and comforting solace. 

                            •           Tea is refreshing and healing, stimulating and calming.

                            •           Tea overcame many challenges to reach you.



It should not be a surprise then that a substance of this magnitude has many birth legends. But, China, Japan, Korea and India have finally come to agree on one thing: tea was discovered in China about 5000 years ago by Shen Nong.

Shen Nong is the acclaimed father of agriculture and medicine in China. Shen Nong named tea ‘cha' which is the same pronunciation for "checking for poisons". One myth says, "He tasted herbs and plants all day noting their effects." When he tasted tea, he believed it checked for poisons as it made its way through his intestines.  In effect, it purified him of toxins.

Another story says Shen Nong was traveling, when he stopped to boiled water to sanitize it.  Leaves from a nearby bush blew in the steaming water. This new brew created an appealing aroma.  Upon tasting the tea, he found it delicious and stimulating.

Out of facts and legends, another less exciting story can be seen emerging.  In southwest China 5000 years ago, there was a tribe of people called Shen Nong.  The Shen Nong macerated herbs, plants and leaves to soften them. It was a common practice to extract the nutrients.  Edentulism (loss of teeth) was also common. Obviously, after the loss of molars, chewing many of the leaves and plants becomes difficult, if not impossible.

The next best thing to the dissolving qualities of saliva and maceration is water and a mortar and pedestal. Simple observations would have shown that warm water extracts faster and better than cold. Tea must have been extraordinarily easier to consume as a warm liquid than chewing and sucking on it during the day.

Regardless of tea's creation story, all is conjecture. Tea is not mentioned in writing until 3rd century AD in a Chinese medicinal text written by Hua T'o; far after tea's discovery.  By this time, the legends of the birth of tea had already begun to develop.

Written records or not, tea myths still abound even today. Many tea writers, blind to anthropological realities, have tea arriving into some countries considerably later than it actually occurred.  These stories are often dependent upon biased historical claims rather than on science and evidence. 

Throughout tea's travels, tea has remained ecumenical.  Tea is still innocent of the drama, abuse, bloodshed, and espionage associated with its history.  It is highly unusual that some cultures did not demonize tea for all the hell it caused among people. But tea also continues to be steeped in adoration and honor from the individual and collective lives it has changed for the better.
  
Ritual Tea: How the 9 Secrets of Tea Can Transform Your Life Tour Page:




About the Author

Mario Zeleny – Lover of all things tea.  Mario spent 15 years in healthcare and social services in clinical and administrative roles that offered coaching to employees and volunteers.  An artist and entrepreneur from an early age, Mario now brings his love of writing, art, spirit, coaching and ritual together online at his creative living site, Sancti Spiritus and also from his transformational art site, Art Spellz. Mario looks forward to completing his education with Mentor Coach and St. Clement Seminary. He currently resides in Sacramento with his husband of 8 years, their children and their domestic sovereign, a pug named Brigit.
His latest book is the self-help inspirational, Ritual Tea: How the 9 Secrets of Tea Can Transform Your Life.

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My Review: 
Since I am Deal Sharing Aunt, I LOVED that there were links to 30 FREE tea products. There are so many different kinds of tea, that I was lost before I read this book. However now I know the meanings and so much more. I feel like I could sweep a tea category on Jeopardy! The tea blend chart on page 129 is great, because you will know exactly where and how the tea is made. The Herb Correspondence on page 110 was informative. If I feel like I am having a bad day and I need energy, then I know to drink ginger tea. There is also a free online class that goes with this book! I am giving this book a 4/5. I was given a copy to review, however all opinions are my own. 

Saturday, October 6, 2012

October 5th freebie, Halloween freebie and Autumn Blog Challenge

Today's freebie: Free Nivea sample;
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I clicked submit for the survey, even tho I left it blank!

Today's Halloween Freebie; You need to be a member, but I already am to print coupons!
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Today's Autumn Blog Challenge;
October 5 - Your favorite Autumn recipe.
I Love making Pecan pie this time of year! I make so many that I actually laminated the page right out of the Betty Crocker cookbook! Now when I am baking the recipe can get dirty or wet, and it is easy to clean up!.. Plus it will last longer :)

Friday, October 5, 2012

October 4th ABC challenge, freebie, Halloween freebie

Here is today's Halloween freebie...Some are really gross...depending on your taste! http://www.divinedinnerparty.com/gross-recipes-for-halloween.html


Here is today's Autumn Blog Challenge
October 4 - Tell the story of your first time on a hayride, in a corn maze, in a haunted house, etc.
Well I know I did when I was little, but the earliest one (and my favorite) Hay ride was from when my oldest sister over at www.3partnersinshopping.blogspot.com was dating her husband. He had a best friend that he used to bowl with (K). So the four of us went. K is 10 years older then me.... My mom told my sister not to let him sit next to me LOL! So we went and we had a blast. The monsters touched my leg and I jumped a mile... I was 15!
I loved it! As my readers know already, I LOVE HALLOWEEN!
So we started to see K more and more around the bowling ally and we found out that he used to be my grandparents paper boy, while my mom lived home with them still! My Sister Lala started to date K. Now the 2 bowlers that went on the Haunted Hayride with me are my 2 brother in laws!!! They are real brothers to me, and I couldn't ask for any better!

Today's freebie is:
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Click redeem now in the pop up and get 5 free facebook credits!
These can be used in any facebook game!!!

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Today's freebie, Autumn Blog Challenge and Halloween freebie

Here is today's Halloween Freebie:
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This site has a bunch of free halloween stuff but this is my favorite: http://www.1halloween.net/html/cosipad.html   AN IPad costume! they have free instructions!


Like this facebook page to get a free 10 pack of razors :)
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Autumn Blog Challenge:
October 3 - What is the scariest movie you've ever seen?
I am a huge Stephen King fan, and I have seen all his movies. I am not easily scared. However the one movie that did freak me out was "The People Under the Stairs". That movie makes me jump every time I watch it!
 

Saturday, September 29, 2012

3 free Twinings Tea bag samples

You can get 3 free samples of Twining tea bags just click on the link below. :)


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I am going to try 2 of their Chai's... Pumpkin Spice and Apple yummy!

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

FREEBIES!

These are some cool freebies that I have seen this week!

Free Quiznos sub at http://www.millionsubs.com/Reg.php?x=1
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Free pancakes at IHOP today!
Free "pets inside" sticker at https://www.adt.com/resi/programs/pets/