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The Meld: Magic, Please by Kelley Kay Bowles – Book Blast

12 Monday Sep 2022

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About The Meld: Magic, Please

The Meld: Magic, Please
Young Adult Paranormal
1st in Series
Setting – The fictional Mountain West town of Pinewood, Colorado
All Things That Matter Press (July 3, 2022)
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 143 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8986288529
Kindle ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0B5RZPXCX

The Meld, an otherworldly group of six, has gathered in the past millennium to bestow gifts on the most interesting of all populations: adolescents. The Meld members comprise a yin/yang of deadly behaviors which qualified their membership: half took lives for noble reasons, half for selfish ones. They completed their circle with Delilah Mackley in 1962 and have since been operating at full strength to give a supernatural gift to their chosen charges. This time, they choose Colorado sophomore Millie Mahoney.

The murder of Millie’s mother and the resultant self-destruction of her father have rendered her life chaotic, which Millie fights by immersing herself in her great passion: words and their power. The Meld gives her the ability for her words to become real:

Everything she writes comes true.

While she’s too smart to bring her mother back to life, Millie does look for a way to heal her family … and maybe catch the loving attention of Derek Samson while she’s at it.

About Kelley Kay Bowles

Kelley (Kelley Kaye, Kelley Kay Bowles, Kelley Gusich) taught High School English and Drama for twenty years in Colorado and California, but her love for storytelling dates back to creating captions for her high school yearbook. Maybe back to the tales she created around her Barbie and Ken. A 1994 MS diagnosis and many years of fertility struggles have (circuitously) brought Kelley, finally, to the life of writer and mother, both of which she adores. Death by Diploma, released by Red Adept Publishing in February 2016 and #1 for cozy mystery on Amazon in August that same year, is her debut cozy mystery, first in the Chalkboard Outlines® series. Book 2, Poison by Punctuation, was released on April 24, 2018, and the latest, Strangled by Simile, was released in March 2022. Her debut Young Adult Paranormal, Down in the Belly of the Whale, received the 2017 Indie Book of the Year from Aionios Books, which published the book on May 5, 2018. The first of The Meld YA Paranormal series: Magic, Please, was released July 3, 2022.

She’s also working with her husband to raise two active and busy teenage sons.

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Website – https://kelleykaybowles.com/

Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/kelley.bowles.gusich

Twitter – https://twitter.com/kelkay1202

YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVlte3qfP3gTpHOwjNjqDqg

GoodReads Link – https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1380492.Kelley_Kay_Bowles

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Murder up to Bat – New Release!

29 Monday Aug 2022

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Hello Readers!

Murder Up To Bat

I’m excited to announce the release of Murder up to Bat – Book 2 in my cozy mystery series.

Description: After falling in love with the quiet lake life and a certain police detective, former Chicago Tribune reporter Emma Moore trades interviewing jocks for chasing champion cows at the county fair. As a small-town newspaper reporter, she covers local topics both big and small, but when her friend Luke is arrested for the murder of the head coach of his club softball team, she’ll need to hone her investigative skills to clear his name. Emma calls up best friend Grace for help, and together the women go up against cutthroat parents willing to kill for a chance to get their daughters onto a premier college sports team.

The game is tied with bases loaded, and murder is up to bat. Can Emma and her friends bring the heat and win the game?

If you haven’t read The Great Jewel Robbery – Book 1, you might want to start there. Both are standalone cozy mysteries and quick reads!

I’m not going to lie. Writing this book was a struggle, and it took me longer than usual to complete it. I started it days before the 2020 pandemic took over our lives. Unfortunately, my mental health suffered from all of the chaos and tragedies, and I didn’t write for almost two years.

The story was inspired by my experiences watching my daughters play middle school and high school sports and travel softball. My youngest also played college softball. Over the years, I witnessed police intervention due to threatening behavior, profanity-laced tantrums, and umps ejecting people from the ballpark. All because an adult took winning a game or a tournament too seriously. It was often embarrassing and sometimes frightening.

But my daughters’ sports experiences weren’t all bad. They bonded with their various teammates and forged lifelong friendships. They learned teamwork and not to give up despite what the scoreboard read. They also learned the power of sunscreen and Gatorade.

I hope you enjoy Murder up to Bat and will leave a review on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or Goodreads.

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Holiday Fake-Out: 22 Fake Holiday Dates to Heat Up the Season

07 Thursday Oct 2021

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Holiday Fake-out: 22 Fake Holiday Dates to Heat Up the Season
by Heather Graham, Carmen Falcone, Victoria Pinder, Christine Glover, Ann Omasta, K.L. Brady, Michele De Winton, Kristin Wallace, Rossie Cortes, EmKay Conner, Jodi Linton, Melanie Rose Clarke, Lyz Kelley, Marcia King-Gamble, Brynn North, Cindy Redding, Kathleen Lawless, Laurel Greer, Dee J Holmes, Emma Lee Jayne, Cara Carnes, Kat Baxter, Kara Kendrick

About Holiday Fake-Out


Holiday Fake-Out: 22 Fake Holiday Dates to Heat Up the Season
Holiday Contemporary Romance
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Love in a Book (October 19, 2021)
Number of Pages: 500
Digital ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08WM377B8

Need a date for the holidays? We’ve got you covered with 22 fake holidates to heat up your season!

Travel from small towns to cosmopolitan cities, snow covered mountains to gorgeous mansions. You’ll meet sexy billionaires, brainy tech gods, buff journalists, sinfully cocky athletes, and sizzling hot chefs. They’re naughty and nice (and everything in between) and they’re enough to fulfill any romantic fantasies.

These 22 swoon-worthy heroes are ready to be your *fake* plus-one at holiday events, from Christmas weddings to Chanukah and Kwanzaa celebrations. Each starts out as a charade, and though they might lie to family, friends, or co-workers, they won’t be able to fool themselves when a very real romance develops.

Escape into addictive tales of second chances, sweet new beginnings, secret crushes, friends to lovers, love triangles, and forbidden rendezvous. Throw in a mix of suspense, laughs, passion, and temptation, and your holidays are set.

Pre-order HOLIDAY FAKEOUT now to get the season started. The tingles, butterflies, and swoons brought on by these sweet and scorching stories will have you wondering which book boyfriend you should bring home for the holidays.

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Lyz Kelley
Lyz Kelley
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Laurel Greer
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Kara Kendrick
Emma Lee Jayne
Emma Lee Jayne
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Cara Carnes
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Jodi Linton
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Kat Baxter
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