Helen C. Johannes's Blog, page 9

Adventure, mystery, romance…and a wedding! Heroes, villains, and messy family secrets are guaranteed to keep you reading well past bedtime to discover that happily ever after for these newlyweds. 
4.5 Stars and a Crowned Heart of Excellence from InD'Tale Magazine: ““Lord of Druemarwin” … is a wonderful love story filled with secrets and treachery! Readers will be immediately drawn into the saga of war, alliances, bravery, and honor.… The lovers … are richly written characters devoted to each othe...

Are you an audiobook addict? June is audiobook month and there’s a huge event going on at N. N. Light’s Book Heaven Celebrate Audiobook Month. 41 audiobooks featured plus a chance to win one of the following:
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Stress got the best of you in these uncertain times? Escape inside these books and watch your stress disappear at N. N. Lights Book Heaven Stress Busting Book Festival. 43 books featured plus a chance to win one of the following:
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Wave a big, happy hello to FREDERICK FLY-CATCHER, my new children's fantasy novel releasing today in wide e-distribution. Frederick has been a long time coming as it's a book I first wrote to entertain my children. They're grown now, but Frederick is finally ready to be shared with the children of the world. It's a book about family and friendship and the power of small people when they band together against a much larger, common foe.

Here's the blurb:


Frederick the frog isnt looking for...

While we're all at home relying on modern technology to stay in touch, order food, and be entertained, this virus has inspired some of us to dust off old-time skills that not so very long ago were still taught in school. I speak of sewing.

I am one of those who still has a sewing machine, who learned to hand-sew and embroider, who learned to use a pattern to create. Since my children grew up, that sewing machine mostly sat in my closet, sometimes for more than a year at a time. Now I've pulled...

Calling all readers! Spring has sprung and youre all invited to N. N. Lights Book Heaven Spring Break Bookapalooza. 31 books featured plus a chance to win one of the following:
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LORD OF DRUEMARWIN at 99-cents is at the top of the list of sci-fi and fantasy books here: Science Fiction or Fantasy Romance (erotic and non-erotic)

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Now through March 27, my latest fantasy romance LORD OF DRUEMARWIN will be on sale for 99 cents at Amazon Kindle and Barnes and Noble Nook. Here's what readers are saying about the book:


having Raell be such a kick ass female lead was great Jennifer W. 4 stars on NetgalleyThis was an amazing read that kept me hooked from beginning to end. Danielle B. 5 stars on NetgalleyThis is what epic fantasy book lovers rejoice over: sweeping stories, intertwined plot lines, interesting...

Are you suffering from the winter doldrums? I’ve discovered the cure at N. N. Light’s Book Heaven Shake Off Winter Doldrums Book Festival. 33 books featured plus a chance to win one of the following:
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I love to read, and I never go anywhere without a book in hand. But I'm highly selective about what I choose to read. Over the years, I've accumulated a list of go-to authors whose books never disappoint and whose works I eagerly await. Here, in no particular order, are three of those favorites and why I return again and again to their works.


#1 – Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Breathing Room, First Lady, It Had to Be You, etc.– Complex, fully realized characters whose sometimes wildly...