Goddess Fish BLURB:

Do you believe in magic?

Reporter Stacey Matthewson has made a living writing sensational stories that knock celebrities off their pedestals. Now she’s got a hot lead on an even hotter magician who’s mystifying Las Vegas with his new show–the problem is, she’s had a crush on him for years. How can she write a story that might ruin him, especially when he proves himself to be so much more than she’d ever dreamed?

Magician Andre Hawke has a knack for making things disappear, but when it comes to his brother’s drinking and gambling, he’s got a problem. Hiring the sexy reporter who threatens to blow away his carefully wrought illusion might be the answer to his problems…or she might bring on a whole new set of them.

Stacey’s never believed in magic, and Andre doesn’t know who to trust anymore. Can passion overcome their inhibitions, or will betrayal stem the tide of love?

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EXCERPT:

Andre caught up to her, wheeled around and started walking backward in front of her. He was amazingly nimble on his feet, able to avoid oncoming traffic without even glancing over his shoulder. Stacey shook her head. “Don’t you think you need to watch where you’re going?”

“Why?” He shrugged. “I can never see it until it’s past anyway. Most people can’t.”

She rolled her eyes. “I had no idea kissing made you philosophical.”

He tsked. “Kissing makes me horny. Life makes me philosophical.”

He was starting to get on her nerves. “Get over it, Andre. So we made out. We got carried away, that’s all.”

“I think it was more than that…for at least one of us.” His words teased her, but she wouldn’t ask him which one of them he was talking about. He kept walking backward, and this time, he was heading directly toward another man–a very large one–walking toward them. Stacey opened her mouth to say something but before she could, he’d walked directly into the other man, almost as if he’d intended to do it. He laughed out loud, catching himself by putting his arms around her. He glanced over at the large man, breaking off his embrace of Stacey to turn and shake his hand. “Thank you! That was perfect. Sorry about that, I’m trying to make a point, though, and you just did it very effectively.”

He turned back to Stacey. “You say you never saw it coming. I say we never see things coming. I mean, look at this particular incident. I was walking backward, couldn’t possibly have seen him, right? But what’s his excuse?”

AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Michelle Garren Flye is the award-winning romance author of five novels. Her most recent novel, Where the Heart Lies, has been described as an “engaging novel with charming and likable characters” and a story that “will make you believe in love and second chances.”

Michelle placed third in the Hyperink Romance Writing Contest for her short story “Life After”. Her short stories have been published by the romance anthology Foreign Affairs, Opium.com, SmokelongQuarterly.com and Flashquake.com. She has served on the editorial staffs of Horror Library Volume 1, Horror Library Volume 3, Butcher Shop Quartet, Butcher Shop Quartet II and Tattered Souls.

Michelle has a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Master’s degree in Library and Information Science from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is the mother of three and lives in North Carolina with her husband and their rapidly growing collection of pets.

Connect with Michelle Garren Flye online:

Website: http://michellegflye.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Michelle-Garren-Flye/132688623422175

Twitter: https://twitter.com/michellegflye

Amazon Author Central: http://www.amazon.com/Michelle-Garren-Flye/e/B006QG88WY/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1

What Inspired Me to Write Close Up Magic (Guest post)

By Michelle Garren Flye

“What made you write about that?” is always a hard question for me to answer. I can’t really put my finger on one thing, in particular, that makes me write about the themes and things I write about, because for the most, they grow naturally from ideas and experiences I have over a long period of time.

Close Up Magic is just such a book. I like to say it’s the book I always wanted to write but didn’t know how, and it’s actually true. I’ve gathered the inspiration and ideas for Close Up Magic my entire life, but I can pinpoint a moment when the idea became more concrete in my head.

I’d always wanted to write about magic. I believe in magic. I believe I’ve seen magic. I actually believe we all do, but we don’t always recognize it. But magic is amorphous and difficult to nail down. How do you write about such a thing?

I used to try to write fairytales and science fiction/fantasy type things, but the world building was way too intricate for me. I just wanted to write about magic. I loved it, I believed in it—why did I have such a hard time writing about it?

In October last year, I started working on my outline for my National Novel Writing Month novel and preparing to go to Las Vegas with my husband at the same time. We were hunting around for a couple of shows to go to and I decided I wanted to see David Copperfield. That’s the moment inspiration really struck.

What if I wrote a romance novel with a magician as the hero? I could even set it in Las Vegas. And why stop at one? I’d been looking for a premise for a good romance series, and this would be perfect. A series where either the hero or the heroine was a magician.

And that’s how Close Up Magic, the novel about magic I’ve always wanted to write, was born. Maybe it had been thirty years in gestation, but it was that trip to Las Vegas that sparked the seed of an idea into germination.

GIVEAWAY:

Michelle will award a Magic Gift Basket, including a copy of “Magic for Dummies” by David Pogue to one randomly drawn commenter during the tour (US only), and one commenter at every stop will win a $5 Amazon GC. One randomly drawn host will win a $20 Amazon GC.

The more you comment, the better your chances of winning. The tour dates can be found here:

http://goddessfishpromotions.blogspot.com/2013/04/virtual-book-tour-close-up-magic-by.html

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