April 2019 – Allison M. Azulay

Book Covers Part One

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:30 April 2019
Post category:Writers

Independent publishers have a variety of options, whether publishing digital or print books. There are individual designers who specialize in cover design; their prices vary. There are companies that make…

Website Woes

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:23 April 2019
Post category:Writers

The internet is a dynamic place. And a weird one. Not only are there constant changes wrought by software companies forever fixing and improving their products, and people like myself…

Emotion

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:16 April 2019
Post category:Adventure Readers Romance

Romance books specifically evoke emotion; that is part of their appeal for many and what repels others. In my experience, men in general and academics in particular often dismiss the…

May-December Romance

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:9 April 2019
Post category:Readers Romance

While for some time now younger generations have been encouraged by media to consider mature adults to be beyond sexual thoughts and relations, historically it was common for an older…

Creative Blocks

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:2 April 2019
Post category:Writers

Most blocks to creativity are internal; that is, they stem from our inhibitions and fears. And where do those inhibitions and fears come from? In my experience and observation, they…

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I NOTICED THE SWAGGER FIRST: that arrogant saunter that said, “I’m irresistible and I know it.” He was good-looking, yes—as emphasized by the tight jeans that displayed every muscle and more than hinted at one in particular. And the chambray shirt open to show off a broad chest matted with jet hair that proclaimed his masculinity.

–excerpt from Bad Twin

GINETTE LAY STARING into darkness in the low cot by the grand canopied bed in which Lady Barton snored softly. To her surprise and dismay, the old woman had roused from her fireside dozing when she entered the room and had insisted on regaling her with more tales of the foibles and weaknesses of the aristocracy as Ginette helped her undress.

Thinking back on it, she realized there had been a subtle urgency in the manner of the viscountess. Indeed, now that she recalled her months as maid-cum-companion, she recognized that she had felt yet dismissed a sense of impendence. At first, she had wondered was it she who anticipated something vaguely threatening, or was it Lady Barton who expected some event? Now, a certainty filled her that Lady Barton’s choosing to employ her signified much more than she had guessed.

But what?

–excerpt from Propositions and Proposals