Events – PATCHWORK BLUEZ PRESS

May 06

Forever Woman, are you for real?

by B.L. in Events, Latest Novels 0 comments

Jenna Jacks, a wildly temperamental artist with a load of baggage, goes through chauffeurs faster than she goes through the models she paints, or so rumors suggest. Professional limo driver Florence Walker immediately bumps heads with Jenna during her interview, but Jenna discovers that Flo is a highly sought after driver and there is also an undercurrent of attraction that both women work at denying. Despite the headaches that Jenna anticipates, she offers Flo the position and despite the warnings from co-workers that Jenna might be high maintenance, Flo takes the job. Unfortunately, the first day of work goes badly and causes Flo to become closer to her new boss than she wants to be, and not in the way either woman wants. Can the two women work on their differences and accept their mutual attraction and the baggage the other has, or will they miss the chance to become each other’s Forever Woman, are you for real? Pre-order now on Kindle for $2.99. Release date on Mother’s Day May 8, 2016. ASIN: B01ES9AQN4 (Kindle Version $2.99) ISBN-13: 978-1532896248 (Print Version $10.99) ISBN-10: 1532896247 (Print Version $10.99) Here are the links for FOREVER WOMAN, are you for real? Amazon Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01ES9AQN4 Amazon Kindle UK: […]

May 06

The First One’S Free, the rest you pay for with your life

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Want to read a great romantic suspense tale for $2.99? Buy THE FIRST ONE’S FREE, the rest you pay for with your life. Pre-order now. Release date 6/1/16. New York City sanitation worker Tracey Sneed witnesses a group of men shoot an unarmed man behind a vacant building. Frightened by what she has observed, she tries to keep it to herself, but the DA’s office tracks her down anyway so she can testify against the dirty cops who allegedly committed the murder. Now she is the target of harassing calls and other small attacks, but the final straw is when her house is set on fire while she and her young son are in it. Angry, she visits the DA’s office to let them know that she will not testify, that it is too much of a risk to her and her child. There, she confronts ADA Ramona “Remy” Martin, a feisty lawyer who is determined to win her case. Sparks fly between the two women, although from different backgrounds and places in their lives. Will this encounter unite the two women or is it only the beginning of the danger and intrigue surrounding the murder case in The First One’s […]

May 05

Bloodhound3, pour me another one

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Want to read a great mystery for Gay Pride? Then buy BLOODHOUND3, pour me another one. Pre-order now, release date 6/1/16. NYPD homicide detective, Lindsay Washington is trying to catch a serial rapist who is evolving into a killer who keeps slipping through traps. She drinks to ease the knowledge she’s been unable to catch this one criminal. She drinks to hide the problems in her personal life. She drinks because she enjoys the look of Jack but hates the taste. Lindsay’s drinking problem becomes apparent when a sixth victim is murdered by serial rapist. To make matters worse for Lindsay, the sixth victim is her on-again-off again lover. Department brass, blame her for messing up evidence in the case. They give her an ultimatum—get sober then accept a demotion to work as a street cop or resign. Lindsay is insulted by NYPD’s unbending stance on her drinking issues. She quits the department convinced it will end her stress and her pain which will stop her drinking. It doesn’t but three years sober in AA and a new job as a security guard help. She’s in control of her life again until the same lethal serial rapist starts sending her […]

Dec 08

Muffin: it’s never too late for love

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My Unfinished Business of Love series of 5 novellas examines how women handle romantic relationships that end badly. Do the ex-lovers still think about each other? Would they want a do-over? What would they do differently if given the opportunity for a fresh start? Each of my novellas examines what women do when given another chance to make things better for the ones they profess to love…even when that chance comes ten or fifteen years after the breakup. MUFFIN: it’s never too late for love is the fourth book in my Unfinished Business of Love series. Here’s a bit of the backstory about writing this book. I wanted to write a book with an older but still very attractive woman who has a reunion with the younger woman she dumped years ago. The younger woman can’t forget the lessons she learned from the older woman. She wants to see her again. On one hand the younger woman hates that the older woman dumped her. She seeks a little revenge, hoping older woman has grown old and unattractive. But she’s still curious about her older ex-lover. She remembers how good loving her felt. She wants to feel that all-encompassing love again. […]

Dec 07

Adam: a mother’s love lasts forever

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My Unfinished Business of Love series of 5 novellas examines how women handle romantic relationships that end badly. Do the ex-lovers still think about each other? Would they want a do-over? What would they do differently if given the opportunity for a fresh start? Each of my novellas examines what women do when given another chance to make things better for the ones they profess to love…even when that chance comes ten or fifteen years after the breakup. ADAM: a mother’s love lasts forever is the third book in the Unfinished Business of Love series. I wanted to tell you a little about why I wrote the novella. The death of a child is always difficult to accept. I wanted to write about it. How would it feel to know the child I carried in my belly for nine months, would die long before I did? At first I thought no child should die before his parents. Then I thought, yes, that is true but that is not life. Children die before their parents all the time in many parts of the world. When I finally accepted what it must be like to never see my child grow up; graduate […]

Dec 06

Little Hellion: love tames a wild heart

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LITTLE HELLION: love tames a wild heart is the second in my Unfinished Business of Love series. Here’s a bit of backstory. This was the first novel I ever presented to a writing group. I had gone to a writing seminar at the same site where one of the facilitators made fun of my desire to become a romance writer. He and his writer friends look down their noses at me saying that I didn’t deserve to join their writing group because my choice of genres was foolish and unworthy of a real discussion. He continued to make belittling comments. I finally left the seminar felling belittled and humiliated. I even demanded a refund and explained in a terse letter why. The administrator of the writing program had a difficult time with my situation, refusing to refund my money for serval weeks while he checked out my complaint. I finally received a refund. Of course I was very wary about joining another writing group at the same location. The leaders of my new writing group were two older women. What a difference gender makes! They were actually nice, formulating their critiques of my work in useful ways and I learned […]

Dec 04

Unfinished Business – a romantic tale about old loves and new ones is the book that started it all for me.

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I wrote this book in 2006 to challenge myself. I wanted to see if I could tell a decent suspense tale with a romantic bent. I needed inspiration to keep writing so I named one of the main characters after one of my favorite play aunts from childhood. As happens sometimes in life my play aunt grew older and developed dementia. In her later years, her children admitted her to an assisted living center for seniors. The last time I visited my mother, we went to see my play aunt. She looked older but she was still so beautiful it nearly took my breath away. Unfortunately her mind wasn’t a match for her body and she didn’t remember who I was. At the time we visited, my play aunt was concerned that her husband wasn’t in the room with her and she was running all over the place searching for him. My mother didn’t have the heart to tell her what the nursing staff had told my play aunt a million times that her husband lived elsewhere in another assisted living center. Her husband of nearly sixty years needed a wheelchair to help him get around. While his body had […]

Nov 14

Unfinished Business Series

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My Unfinished Business Series of 5 novellas examines how women handle romantic relationships that end badly. Do the ex-lovers still think about each other? Would they want a do-over? What would they do differently if given the opportunity for a fresh start? Each of my novellas examines what women do when given another chance to make things better for the ones they profess to love…even when that chance comes ten or fifteen years after the breakup. As always, the main characters in the five novellas are all city workers and or women in uniform. The five novellas in the Unfinished Business Series are HORSEWOMAN, LITTLE HELLION, ADAM, MUFFIN and FIRST TIME. Pre-order date: 11/15/15. Release dates are: 12/1/15, 12/2/15, 12/3/15, 12/4/15 and 12/5/15 In HORSEWOMAN (Unfinished Business Volume 1), Melanie Burton and Heather Spencer-Poole lived together. They broke up because Mel enrolled in the police academy to become the cop that Heather, the daughter of the police chief, doesn’t want. After the breakup, Mel earns promotions, becoming a sergeant in narcotics. Meanwhile, Heather, a nurse at Presbyterian Hospital, resigns to raise a son and becomes a domestic partner with a detective. Heather’s father, Archie, feels guilty about the lies he […]