25 Random Things About H.M. Ward (For Realzies)

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1. My favorite color is purple.

2. My secret favorite color is pink.

3. I like to make sublime things, and I’m a hopeless romantic.

4. I believe in true love, and was lucky enough to find it and keep it.

5. I love somber, melancholy stories and music.

6. I play the cello, and competed when I was younger.

7. I LOVE playing in pit orchestras.

8. And I’m infatuated with the theatre. Backstage, when the lights are down, and the theatre is empty offers a ghostly hallowedness that is so alluring, I could sit there, listening to the silence forever.

9. The giggles of a child are like Pixie Stix for the soul.

10. Dogs love me, although I only admire them from a distance. It’s quite awkward, actually.

11. I have middle child syndrome. My mom told me so. A lot.

12. I have curly hair that puts Side Show Bob’s untamed mane to shame.

13. My favorite number is 3.

14. I’m a professional artist (commissioned painter).

15. I’m a full time writer. DEMON KISSED (A Paranormal Romance-Book #1 in the Demon Kissed Series) (Demon Kissed #1) was my 1st book. I shot all the covers for that series and Catalyst in my studio.

16. Although my mother thinks so, I am not the heroine in any of my books even they have unmanageable hair, middle child syndrome, an affinity for art and music, are rather clumsy, and like the #3.

17. Oh yeah, I’m clumsy.

18. My favorite book is Peter and Wendy.

19. I went to seminary. I forget exactly how that happened.

20. I’m an award winning boudoir photographer. Fo shizzle.

21. I appear to be slightly bipolar, tripolar as I’m reading this list.

22. I’m introverted. I’d be a hermit, but I don’t like caves. Okay, I’m, lying. I LOVE caves, but I hate things that live in them, like bats and other hermits.

23. I’m a native NYer, which is why most of my novels take place on Long Island. The high school in DEMON KISSED and TRYSTAN SCOTT is Deer Park High. Yes, there is a prop room in the basement. That was just an open invitation to trouble. What the hell were they thinking?

24. When I 1st moved to TX, I thought nice people were trying to steal my car. They’d say stuff like, “How are you?” and “Nice morning, isn’t it?” I managed not to punch anyone. They say I’m doing rather well now.

25. I found out I’m old last week. It didn’t go over well. I’m hoping it was a mistake.

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H.M. Ward’s Hot N’ Steamy Romances on GoodReads

Check this out Goodreads peeps! A fan put together a HUGE fan page with tons of stuff on it! She did a stellar job. I can’t tell you how excited I am that she did it and chose me! This chick has one of the most active groups on Goodreads, and she made another one–just for me!

Go join when you get a second. It’s going to be stellar!

http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/110068

Thank you Izzy!!! You rock!!!  :)

 

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H.M. Ward’s Awesomesauce Summer Giveaway (1 Kindle, 29 books, value $260)

It’s totally time for a giveaway – and this time International peeps can enter! Wahoo!

ONE LUCKY WINNER WILL GET:

A Kindle Fire, Plus 29 of H.M. Ward’s hottest ebooks including: NYT Bestseller Damaged 1 & 2, NYT Bestseller Scandalous 1 & 2,  NYT Bestselling Series Arrangement Vol 1-8  Secrets 1-5,  The Secret Life of Trystan Scott1-4, and Christmas Kisses. Demon Kissed 1-5, Bane 1 & 2 (Value $260US)

Go enter to win!

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New Description for SCANDALOUS by Ella Steele HM Ward

So, the first description kind of sucked. I swear, it’s harder to write a good short description than it is to write the book. Anyway, here’s the redo. Hopefully it feels more like SCANDALOUS. Remember, this is for mature readers, meaning it has hawt steamy steam going on under that pretty cover.

NEW DESCRIPTION:

“I see it, Jack. Your muse is back. The thing that gave you passion, tormented you, and haunted you is back. You’re reeling in ecstasy and dread. It’s something you want, but can’t ever have. And the one that brings the pain is pure, white as snow… and standing in front of you.”

One kiss could have changed Abby’s life, but when it didn’t happen, she ran. Jack was everything to her and when he didn’t respond, Abby couldn’t bear it. Everything about that night–leaning in close to his face, feeling the night breeze teasing her hair, the way his scent filled her head—was burned vividly into her mind, including the moment when Jack pulled away. There was no kiss. Abby was wrong. She was wrong about him, wrong about them.

Maybe she didn’t have to go to college two thousand miles away, but she did. She had to forget about him. Abby threw herself off the grid, disappearing completely from the life she knew.  After completing her undergraduate degree, she enrolled in seminary. All contact with her old life was severed and she never looked back, until she was forced to.

When Abby puts idealism into practice, her congregation throws her out. If she can survive a year on her own, they’ll take her back, and continue to pay off her student loans—but if she fails, Abby is on her own with enough debt to fund a small town. Seminary wasn’t cheap. With no place left to go, Abby returns to New York and her best friend takes her in.

Desperate to make it on her own and prove she was right, Abby follows a job lead to an art studio on Long Island. It isn’t until she hears Jack’s voice that she freezes. The hairs on the back of her neck prickle as she turns to see Jack, ten years later, looking even more tempting than before.

Fate is cruel. Abby left this life behind, but she’s thrown back into it, head first. It’s like someone hit rewind on her life and its ten years earlier. She’s the cotton-mouthed girl that she always was around Jack, and now her future relies on the man who rejected her.”

SCANDALOUS is on sale now at these retailers:

         

This book has such amazing reviews. It really chokes me up. People ask what made me write SCANDALOUS, because it’s so different than my other books. It’s pretty simple really, this simple question prompted it: What would have my life been like if that kiss never connected? Can one kiss change your life?

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