Small Town Romances With Heart
Want to have a little fun with a bunch of wonderful authors? Come hang out on Facebook on Wednesday, July 26th starting at 4 PM EST. I’ll be making an appearance in the 6:45 to 7:00 p.m. time slot with some fun Christmas-themed games for you to celebrate the upcoming launch of Maybe It’s the Mistletoe.
Here is the link to join the Books ‘R’ Us group. Hope to see some of you there!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/969378346890741
Hi, everyone! If you don’t know me, I’m Lori Soard. I mainly write romance novels, and am also a nonfiction writer/editor. Welcome to my site. I’m thrilled to participate in Rave Reviews Book Club’s BACK-TO-SCHOOL BOOK & BLOG BLOCK PARTY. Thank you for checking out this first stop on the block party. Let’s kick things off with a bang!
My Location: Southern Indiana, USA (we have black bears here again and it is all anyone is talking about!)
UPDATE: Congratulations to Miranda L., winner of the bundle prize. Congrats to the winners of the autographed book and $10 gift card for Amazon: JoAnn W., Janelle J., Stacey D., Linda M. I have emailed everyone and once you send me your addresses will get the prizes out to you this week. If you did not win, you can still get free copies of THE ELIXIR and “DANCING LESSONS” by clicking on the links below.
To enter for a chance to win one of these prizes, you need to comment on this page. RRBC Block Party organizers will gather the names of those who comment and will randomly choose winners of the prizes.
I’m so thrilled you’ve stopped by and I’d love for you to check out my books and let me know what you think. If you sign up for my newsletter, you’ll get a free short story right now. The free short story you’ll receive just for signing up for my mailing list is titled “Auction Block”. It is a sort of comedic mystery. I think you’ll like it. I’d love to hear from you and know what you think.
You can also download The Elixir and Dancing Lessons for FREE on Amazon (links below). This will give you a chance to check out my books. I hope you love them and will want to read more.
The Elixir
by Lori Soard
The dark parking garage with the dead body of his friend and mentor only begins Jake Walker’s problems. Soon, he is the prime suspect in Benjamin Monroe’s murder and worried that his best friend, Ben’s daughter, will believe the worst.
Celeste doesn’t know who killed her father but she does know one thing—it wasn’t Jake. As she and Jake set out to find the killer, they discover that her father unlocked the code to a fountain of youth formula. Anyone who wanted the formula could have killed him, and it was worth millions.
During their investigation, they uncover more facts and more bodies. Because they show up at every crime scene, the detectives investigating the case suspect Celeste and Jake of murder. The two go on the run until they can clear their names. But, there are more sinister forces at work than either realizes, and the deception runs as deep as the national government…
Read The Elixir for free. Download now, read later.
“Dancing Lessons”
by Lori Soard
A heartwarming short story about the power of lasting love. A golden years romance tale of love that lasts forever.
“An incredibly beautiful story in such a few pages. I cried through the whole story. The story especially touched me because my late husband had Alzheimer’s.” – Lillian Ammann (5 stars)
“A sweet romance reminiscent of The Notebook without all the back story. Lori Soard gave us the important part – the eternal love between a man and wife. I have to wonder if Lori is feeling us out before taking this to a larger format. While I enjoyed this read, I hope there are more like this to come.” – Angela (5 stars)
Read “Dancing Lessons for free. Download now, read later.
Cupid’s Quest is the first in my Cupid’s Crossing series. It is an inspirational romantic comedy and starts with the story of Gracie, who runs a small nursing home in town that is about to go under.
Romance stories are in my blood. I read my first romance novel at the age of nine and simply absorbed them since them. Needless to say, while the story centers around the romance between Gracie and Brandt, the heart of this story is in the nursing home residents. They are wise, cranky, funny, and just know how to live life in a way that only those who have spent many years testing out different adventures can live.
This is the story of my heart and I hope it will become the story of your heart as well. I am currently working on Book # 2 in this series, which will be called Change of Heart.
If you get a chance to read this book, I’d love to hear your thoughts or have you review it. I hope you enjoy this story and these characters.
Order Your Copy of Cupid’s Quest
Once again, thanks for stopping by and don’t forget to share your thoughts and comments below for a chance to win one of the great prizes listed at the top of this page. You must comment today, August 1st, 2016 to be entered into the drawing. Best of luck on winning my giveaways! Be sure to check out the next stop for BOOK & BLOG BLOCK PARTY! I’ll be stopping in at future party stops as well. Enjoy!
Love,
Lori
This Saturday at 1 p.m. EST (noon CST), I will be on the radio show Tag Team 2*4*5. You can listen to the show by going tohttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/ravereviewsbookclub. Hope some of you will join me as I talk about Cupid’s Quest and the writing life.
I want to thank everyone for joining me on my first blog tour. I had so much fun on this tour.
A special thanks to Marilyn Meredith, whose notes about her own blog tour helped me be better organized with my own. I think what I enjoyed most about this tour was meeting new readers and getting to know some writer friends as bloggers as well as making a couple of new friends.
In my day-to-day life, I am always running into people who remind me of how much kindness and camaraderie there is in this world. They make up for the few rude ones who will drop a door in your face or cut you off on the highway. There was the 90-year-old woman recently who I had a lovely conversation with in the grocery store and the friend I made at the dentist’s office while waiting for my mom.
There are interesting people everywhere and I love meeting them and talking to them when I leave my house. Doing this blog tour was a lot like that. I met some truly nice people. It was interesting to talk about websites over at Mad Lemmings because the readers got very involved and had some smart insight to add.
I want to take a minute to thank those who hosted me on their blogs. Some of you simply saw I was lining up a tour and took it upon yourselves to contact me and invite me to your blogs. Others responded to a message I sent because I liked your blog and thought we were a good fit.
You all worked hard to get my articles up, get the word out and make me feel welcome. Thank you to:
Finally, I want to thank one special reader named Kimberli Campbell. Kimberli was a great support throughout my entire tour. I think she read nearly every article, commented on them and just made me feel supported. Thank you so much, Kimberli. I truly appreciate it and I’m going to send you a gift. I will contact you here in a moment about it via Facebook.
The tour was fun, but it involved a lot of additional writing and keeping up with comments. I will likely wait until my next book release before scheduling another one. Thank you so much for joining me. If you missed the tour, you can go to the tour schedule page and still read the old posts on each of the blogs I visited. Thanks so much!
Lori Soard
I am thrilled to announce my first blog tour coming up in May. The places, topics and dates are below. Come join me as I go on this tour and let’s chat about a variety of topics related to writing and life.
May 5th-6th: Marilyn Meredith Blog
http://marilynmeredith.blogspot.com
“When People Make Me Mad, I Just Murder Them”
May 8th: See Ya on the Net (LaShaunda Hoffman)
http://lashaunda.blogspot.com
“Why I Started Writing”
May 9th: The Writer Reads (Jeanne Grunnert)
https://thewriterreads.wordpress.com/author/jeannegrunert
“Note from Leani from Dear Viking“
May 10th: Ella Medler
http://ellamedler.wordpress.com
“Author Spotlight”
May 11th: Restless Chipotle (Marye Audet)
http://www.restlesschipotle.com
“My Grandmother’s Teacups”
May 12th: Mad Lemmings
http://madlemmings.com/blog
“5 Reasons Your Website Drives Visitors Insane”
May 13th: Manic Readers
http://manicreaders.com/blog
“Inside the Mind of a Writer” (How I came up with the idea for Dear Viking)
May 14th: Lillie Ammann
http://lillieammann.com/blog
“Interview”
May 15th: Luxury Reading
http://www.luxuryreading.com
“Favorite Books and the Recipes that Made Them” + Recipe for Viking Stew