It’s Monday again! Man, this year is flying. Can you believe we’re already in May? It’s just crazy.

And what a crazy week it’s been too!

I did my first ever podcast interview! Eeeeek!!  Man, I was so nervous, but Kris at Romance Out Loud was just ever so lovely and professional. You can listen to the whole episode HERE  and according to some people on Facebook, apparently I have a funny/cute accent LOL.

In the interview, I talked about how music influences my writing and how each main character has a song that reminds me of them.  Then a lovely reader on Facebook (*waves to Dawn*) asked me what some of them were, so I thought I’d share them with you all.

Please note each link will take you to YouTube:

Isaac Brannigan – Better Than I Know Myself, by Adam Lambert

Thomas Elkin – New York State Of Mind, by Billy Joel

Cronin (particularly from CKIII) – I See Fire, by Ed Sheeran

Matthew Elliott – Hurricane, by Thirty Seconds to Mars

Spencer Cohen – Hallelujah, by Jeff Buckley and also Scars, by James Bay

Trent Jamieson  (Learning to Feel) – The Red Strokes, by Garth Brooks

Harrison Haddon  (Exchange of Hearts) – Fantaisie Impromptu, by Chopin

Charlie Sutton – Underneath, by Adam Lambert  and also Bow River, by Cold Chisel  and also  The Meadow, by Alexandre Desplat (instrumental – I know it’s from Twilight New Moon, but I could always picture Charlie riding on Shelby through the desert to this song)

And I can’t really think of/remember what songs remind me of the Three’s Company boys, or Taxes and TARDIS.  Not that they wouldn’t have had a song, but I just can’t remember it.  When/if I remember, I’ll let you know. 🙂

Now, onto some new and exciting news!! I have a cover reveal for you!  The very lovely and talented Reese Dante has made me a fabulous new cover for Starting Point. I had the rights return to me recently, and have had it re-edited. There is no new content. It will be available at all retail sites in the next day or two. I’ll provide links when I have them! <3

Here’s the cover. Isn’t it just beautiful?

Okay, so that’s it from me for today!  I hope everyone is well and happy. Until next week…

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In conjunction with Alpha Book Club, I’m  giving away one SIGNED paperback set of “The Spencer Cohen Series”  & 4 eBook Sets of the series! 5 Winners total!!! Each winner will get the ENTIRE    5+ star series!!!!

Amazon Global Book 1 – http://bit.ly/1Si0k9r
Amazon Global Book 2 – http://bit.ly/1YLQwoz
Amazon Global Book 3 – http://bit.ly/1NlHf63

Check out Alpha Book Club reviews:
Book One:
http://alphabookclub.org/…/…/spencer-cohen-nr-walker-review/
Book Two:
http://alphabookclub.org/…/spencer-cohen-book-two-n-r-walk…/
Book Three:
http://alphabookclub.org/…/spencer-cohen-series-book-3-n-r…/

TO ENTER: 

All you have to do for a chance to win is ENTER HERE – please be aware the link will take you to Facebook.

Spencer Cohen Book Three is out today!!!   And to help celebrate, I’m doing a $25 Amazon Gift Card Giveaway!

To enter, you need to go to ENTICING JOURNEY BOOK PROMOTIONS where you’ll find the rafflecopter.  It’s that simple.

BLURB:

Learning to be in a committed relationship has been easy for Spencer. In fact, too easy. Andrew has fit into his life seamlessly. Spencer’s let go of his insecurities and hang-ups, and he and Andrew are enjoying where things are headed.

For the first time in years, Spencer’s life is unbelievably perfect.

Andrew overthinks everything. So when Spencer gets a phone call from Australia, he’s certain Spencer will push him away.

But instead of driving them apart, maybe it will solidify what they already have. Maybe Spencer will depend on Andrew more than ever. Maybe the Spencer Cohen story will come full circle, and maybe, just maybe, Spencer will have the happily ever after he never thought possible.

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Universal link: myBook.to/SpencerBookThree

Some Release Day Reviews

“I highly recommend this series. You really can’t go wrong, it has everything you need in a book and more – 5+ Stars to this amazing series and to this book!” – Alpha Book Club

“Overall, this has become one of my favorite series…” – Reading Addict Mom’s Blog

“N.R.Walker read my mind and soul and gave me Spencer Cohen. I’m giving my second beyond five stars rating of the year, and I rarely do that ever.” – The Written Voice of Is

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What a week it’s been!!

Spencer Two is out in the world and the reviews have been incredibly amazing.  <3  Everyone seems to love Spencer and Andrew more now than they did after Book One, which is a lovely compliment.

Unfortunately, I spent release day and the three days that followed in bed sick with some kind of stomach bug.  *insert audio of crowd booing*  It was pretty disastrous, I have to admit, and none too glamorous.  Seriously, it wasn’t good.

And I’d like to extend a HUGE thank you to every single person who bought, borrowed, read and reviewed Spencer Two.  Spencer and Andrew were a joy to write, and I’m so thrilled that everyone loves them as much as I do.

And to every single person who retweeted, reposted, pimped, liked and commented for me when I was in bed with my head in a bucket (nice, huh? lol)  Your support and love means the world to me. I appreciate you all, more than you can possibly know.

And I sincerely apologise if I missed any notifications or comments, posts or messages. If I haven’t returned any emails or messages, please send them again.

And for those that liked my Spencer Cohen Soundtrack playlist on Spotify, I’ve done another one for Book Two. You can find the new one HERE

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This coming week is busier than normal. I’m not quite sure how my life can get any damn busier, but as always, when I think I’ve reached breaking point, Life screams CHALLENGE ACCEPTED and ups the ante. *long suffering sigh*  I have a little thing such as a 40th birthday (which might actually be today but don’t tell anyone LOL) and then I’m taking the kids away for a tennis tournament for five days.  So, for the next week, I’ll be largely uncontactable.  Again, if I miss anything, I apologise in advance.  And if I still haven’t gotten back to you in a few days after I return, please send me a quick reminder via email.

I’m not sure when I’m supposed to get any work done in this time…  Blood & Milk is at 40K words and I’m guessing there could be 20K words to go, or another 40K, I just don’t know… The characters are just wonderful, and I will post more on them after Spencer 3.

As I’ll be away, I’m hoping I will still get a chance to post next week, but if not, I’ll see you all on the other side of Easter.

Until then… Stay beautiful.  <3

It’s release week for Spencer Cohen Book Two!!  I can not wait for you all to see what he and Andrew have been up to! 😉

The preorder link is HERE!  And it should be live on the 17th, exclusive to Amazon!

And an excerpt!

“Can today involve a nap?” I asked in the car on our way to his place.

“Are you five?”

I rubbed my eyes with the heels of my hands. “Last night is catching up with me.”

“Or are you just trying to get me back into bed?”

“Possibly. Do you always answer every question with a question?”

He grinned. “Possibly.”

“I really am sorry about last night. I actually don’t drink that often,” I told him. “Which is why I was so wrecked.”

“It’s okay Spencer,” he said, looking from the road to me. He smiled. “Emilio told me that you’re not a real drinker. Maybe a few beers now and then, but not normally hard liquor.” He laughed a bit. “I think they were worried I’d think less of you. They were all so busy telling me what a good guy you are.”

I shook my head. “I didn’t ask them to do that.”

“Yes, I know. They were worried about you.”

I sighed. “I owe them a pretty big thank you. Dinner or something.”

“They also told me you’d been different with me from day one,” he said, just all casual-like. There was a hint of humour in his eyes.

“They did, huh?”

“Yep. Said you were all ridiculous smiles whenever you mentioned my name.”

“Right, then. Well, I’m taking back the offer to buy them dinner.”

He laughed. “So it’s true?”

“My answer depends on whether you agree to a nap this afternoon.”

He laughed. “I take it that’s a yes.”

I could feel my cheeks flush with embarrassment. “I told you already you were different. But I object to the term ridiculous smiles.”

He was still smirking when he parked his car near his apartment. I grabbed my bag of laundry from the backseat and followed him inside. “I don’t know, Spencer,” he said, putting his keys and wallet on the hallstand. His voice was quieter, more serious. “I happened to like hearing that you thought I was special from day one. When they told me, Lola laughed and said my smile matched your ridiculous one. So we’re probably even.”

I stood there, holding my bag of laundry, not sure what to do with it. I was suddenly nervous. Here we were, alone at his place. I mean, we’d been alone all morning, but this was somehow different. It was like we were one breath away from going at it like rabbits, or he was about to tell me he’d changed his mind. “Well, that’s good then. We can be ridiculous together.”

He studied me for a long moment before walking slowly over to stand in front of me. He put his hand on my laundry bag, where I was clutching it tightly. His fingers touched mine, and warmth shot up my arm causing the butterflies in my stomach to take flight, and he stared into my eyes. I licked my lips, wanting to kiss him, and he leaned in just a fraction, but stopped short of contact. “I’ll take that for you,” he said gruffly and pulled the bag out of my hand. He took a step back and my breath left me in a rush.

“Fuck,” I mumbled, not really meaning to say the word out loud. “Are you trying to kill me?”

He grinned. “Just checking it wasn’t some kind of fluke before.”

“A fluke? What fluke? That I find you insanely hot or that you make my stupid brain malfunction?”

He laughed quietly. “Maybe both.”

“Well, you could have just asked me,” I said, adjusting my now aching—thanks to him—dick.

He watched my hand on my crotch, and his nostrils flared, a rush of pink crept down his neck. His voice cracked when he said, “We better start this laundry.”

He turned and walked down the hall past the bathroom, to what I assumed was the laundry, so I followed. He upended the bag, the contents spilling onto the tiled floor.

“Here, I can do that,” I told him. “I don’t expect you or anyone else to do my washing.” I picked up a shirt and moved it to one side and shoved the sheets to the other side. And as I sorted the dark and light coloured clothes, I could feel him watching me. I looked up and smiled. “What?”

“You sort laundry,” he said quietly.

“Of course I do. By colour and then fabric.”

A slow smile spread across his face, and he bit his lip.

“Do you have a laundry kink I don’t know about?” I asked.

He laughed. “Uh no. It’s just that I always sort that way too, colour then by types of fabric. Eli never did, and it used to drive me insane.” He shrugged. “I like that you do.”

“Um, if you like it, then I’m pretty sure it falls in the kink category.”

He laughed, a low warm sound, before collecting the sheets off the floor and throwing them in the washing machine. He added powder and set it going, which left us standing close together with nothing between us, and suddenly the air was electric in the small room. I could see the rise and fall of his chest, the heat in his eyes.

Fuck.

There was a chemistry between us that I’d never felt with anyone else. And before my brain could catch up, I slid my hand along his jaw and drew his mouth to mine.

Oh, and in case you missed my announcement on Facebook yesterday, I am very excited (and anxious and and nauseous and terrified) to announce that I will be attending GRL this year as a Featured Author!!!  I’ll post more on that later…

Until next week!     <3

For your chance to win a $25 Amazon Gift Card or some of my backlist titles, check out my blog tour!!  Visit ENTICING JOURNEY for the rafflecopter to enter <3

BUYLINKS

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I am so very honoured to say that Cronin’s Key made it to the BEST OF 2015 TOP READ LIST on Prism Book Alliance!!

I’d like to thank everyone who nominated and voted, and a huge thank you to Brandilyn at Prism for running such an amazing giveaway and poll.

You can check out the other winners HERE

For anyone unfamiliar with Cronin’s Key…

BLURB:

NYPD Detective Alec MacAidan has always been good with weird. After all, his life has been a string of the unexplainable. But when an injured man gives him cryptic clues, then turns to dust in front of him, Alec’s view on weird is changed forever.

Cronin, a vampire Elder, has spent the last thousand years waiting for Alec. He’d been told his fated one would be a man wielding a shield, but he didn’t expect him to be human, and he certainly didn’t expect that shield to be a police badge.

Both men, strong-willed and stubborn, are still learning how to cope with the push and pull of being fated, when fate throws them another curveball.

Rumors have spread quickly of turmoil in Egypt. Covens are fleeing with news of a vampire who has a talent like no other, hell-bent on unleashing the wrath of Death.

Alec and Cronin are thrown into a world of weird Alec cannot imagine. What he learned in school of ancient pharaohs and Egyptian gods was far from the truth. Instead, he finds out firsthand that history isn’t always what it seems.

Cronin’s Key is 83,000 words long and just 99c

BUY LINKS:

Amazon

Barnes and Noble

All Romance eBooks

Are you ready to meet Spencer Cohen?

It’s release week!!  I won’t lie – I’m super nervous about this one.  But I can’t wait for the world to meet him (and Andrew, of course).  The pre-release reviews have been fabulous, and it’s such a relief to know other people love these characters as much as I do. <3

The Spencer Cohen Series is being added to KU (Kindle Unlimited) which means it’s exclusive to Amazon.

The pre-order/buy links is

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01BOB6L56

EXCERPT:

“Come on,” Andrew said, standing up. “Let’s go.”

I slowly closed my laptop. “Uh, where exactly are we going?”

“You’re going to buy me my first Jeff Buckley album.”

I grinned at him. “Oh, am I?”

“Yes, you are. Unless you want to give me that one.” He pointed to my record player.

“Like hell. That’s my favourite.”

“That’s what I thought,” he said, walking to the door. He turned back to look at me—where I hadn’t moved from—and clapped his hands together. “Look alive, Spencer.”

“Alright,” I said, collecting my wallet and keys. I quickly grabbed two bottled waters out of my fridge and handed one to him as we walked out the door. “Are you always so pushy?”

He laughed, and those little lines crinkled the corners of his eyes, and the sun gave a warmth to his skin. He went down the stairs first and waited for me to get to the bottom. I guessed he was unsure of which direction to go. I pointed my thumb to the tattoo shop’s dead bolted door. “Can’t access the shop from the outside, so we’ll have to go around,” I nodded toward the end of the building, and we settled into a comfortable stride next to each other.

“I assume there’s a music store around here somewhere,” he said as we neared the street.

“There’s a few,” I told him. “Did you want CD or LP? I could have just downloaded it for you if that would have been easier.”

“I want LP.”

“Do you have a record player?”

“Well, no. But I think I’ll have to get one. I would imagine jazz and blues from vinyl would be incredible.”

I grinned at him. “I’ve created a monster!”

“You can’t just play classic vinyl albums to a music lover and not expect him to want it.”

I grinned. “True.”

We walked the two blocks, the banter between us never stopping. He talked with his hands when he explained things, which I found to be rather endearing, and I’m pretty sure I hadn’t stopped smiling since we left my place. I led him down a side alley off the boulevard and stood in front of the door to the music shop. “Before we go in, you must promise me something.”

He was suddenly serious. “What?”

“This place is special, and thus, must remain a secret.”

“Thus?”

“It’s a word.”

“That no one has used in two hundred years.”

“Not true. I just used it now.”

He laughed. “Okay, so I’m not supposed to tell anyone I came here?”

“Nope. It’s like Vegas.”

“As in ‘What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas’? Really?”

“Yes, really.” I nodded. “It’s too awesome to be popular.”

“Isn’t that redundant to their business profitability?”

“Possibly. But it’s completely old-school indie. I think the owner was a pot-smoking surfer from the sixties and has principles against corporations, though I’ve never asked him. Anyway, if too many people know about it, then it becomes mainstream. And that would ruin it.”

He frowned at me. “Then it’s not like Vegas. It’s more like Fight Club.”

I laughed and bowed my head. “Ah, Grasshopper. You have passed the test. You may enter.” He beamed, and I opened the door with a laugh.

He stepped inside.  “Okay, wow.”

Every so often, an author will write a character they truly connect with and for me, that happened  with Charlie Sutton from my Red Dirt Heart Series. And, it’s happened again with Spencer Cohen.

I have LOVED giving this character life with words. When I had originally planned this book, the MC was supposed to be a cocky guy (think Lucas from Sixty Five Hours). All swagger and zero giveafucks, self-aware and confident with who he was and what he stood for.

But then I started writing. And Spencer was not any of these things. He was so much more.

With a beard and covered in tattoos, Spencer has survived a rather horrible few years, but he has found where he belongs. And for this Australian guy, that place is LA.  That’s where we meet him, just as his entire world gets knocked of its axis by an argyle sweater wearing geek, Andrew Landon.

I made the original cover but Sara York tweaked and made them perfect.   <3  The release date is February 18th, and now to the fun part.  Here is the gorgeous cover…

Blurb:

Spencer Cohen is the guy who gets answers to relationship questions. Playing the role of the new lover, his job is to make his client’s ex realise one of two things: he doesn’t want to break up or he really does. Either way, his client gets answers.

The ex would either apologize and beg, or turn and walk. But in the end, Spencer’s client won. If he wanted his ex back and got him, it was great. If the guy walked away, then as hard it was for the client, he knew it was over. Regardless of the outcome, Spencer’s work was done.

Andrew Landon’s ex left him without so much as an explanation. But his sister can’t stand to see him miserable, so, much to Andrew’s dismay, they hire Spencer to be Andrew’s new boyfriend to get the ex back.

For Spencer, it is never personal. Merely a business transaction. No emotions, no strings, no complications.

Yeah right.

Even a blind man could see how this would end.

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It’s a three-part series. Book 2 will be out in March and Book 3 will be out in April. I can’t wait for you all to meet this cast and crew.  I hope you love them as much as me.