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IN PURSUIT OF GREAT ROMANCE

Best of 2016

12/31/2016

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Here are a few of my favorite personal experiences from this year in photos and video. Hope you enjoy.
April 2016
Hotel Rio, Las Vegas 
RT Romance Lover's Convention
Steampunk Party

*Unfortunately, I cannot get the video to be vertical. 

July 2016
Visiting the Dale Chihuly glass museum and garden, beneath the Space Needle in Seattle, WA.

June 2016
​Family trip to Sedona, AZ
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Goodbye 2016

12/30/2016

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As we close 2016, my heart goes out to everyone who has suffered loss this year. Sending peace and love to everyone.
XOXO, Tess
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Reindeer kitty and holiday wishes

12/25/2016

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Sending hugs, humor and happiness to one and all. Merry Christmas!
​XOXO, Tess
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SFR Brigade Showcase: A Contest and an Excerpt

12/15/2016

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Discover more Science Fiction Romance authors at the 
​Science Fiction Romance Brigade's website.
Happy holidays to one and all! This is my husband's favorite time of year, after Halloween and Thanksgiving, that is. We've put up our tree and we're getting ready to wrap up this year's crop of presents. I'm more of a Nightmare Before Christmas gal myself and love Halloween best of all holidays, but I do enjoy the good company and tasty food of the holiday season. I also like giving gifts that make people smile. So below I've got a few gifts for you just for stopping by. Then let me know what's the best gift you've ever given or received.
 ~ Holiday Contest ~
​Enter to win a Haunted Hollow Themed Pendant*

plus a copy of Before My World Turned Blue, book two in the Haunted Hollow series (ebook).
All you have to do to enter is join the mailing list for my monthly newsletter, The Life Romantic. I'll send periodic news about my latest books and adventures and you can unsubcribe at any time.

After that, keep scrolling down to read an excerpt from my current work in progress, Howling for You, book three of the Haunted Hollow .
*Pendant prize is open to US residents only. eBook prize is open worldwide.
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~ Excerpt ~
​A sneak peak at the Haunted Hollow Book III

Here's an excerpt from the first draft of my newest novel, HOWLING FOR YOU, book 3 in the Haunted Hollow series. It has not yet gone through editing, so please forgive any mistakes. Tell me what you think.
November 2147 —The Haunted Hollow, Old California

“Pinche cabron, they can’t take the surge of energy!” Ava heaved at the lever with all her might, trying to decrease the output from the omni-dimensional energy relay. With Cole’s recent illness and sudden miraculous recovery, the machines had been through hell, and so had Ava. Now, with Cole at his full powers again, his energy feed had overloaded the conduits and relays and sent the motors into overdrive. Up above, day was turning to night and back to day. Sun turned to rain turned to wind turned to sun. Thank the goddess most everyone was still inside the winery celebrating their incredible victory over the necro-virus and Scheherazade. The witch wasn’t dead, not yet, but they’d struck her a vicious blow. 

Ava wasn’t in there celebrating, though, because the machines had gone on high alert. She’d been on her way with Tempe to see Cole before Tempe went back in time on an important mission. Instead she was here, fighting with all her might to keep her machines from exploding. 

She shouted orders at the lackeys she’d been assigned a year or so ago, but they didn’t have the depth of knowledge she did regarding the machines. She knew every piece of scrap metal, every bolt and wire and fan blade. She knew how every motor came apart and went together. She could literally hear the parts talking to her. On a level only she could understand, the cooling unit for the seasonal regulator told her it was seconds from blowing. 

“You, take this lever and keep pulling. Do not let the relay switch back to full power, understand?” she shouted at the nearest lackey, Paul, Preston, something with a P, and then raced to the cooling unit over on the other side of the yard. 

But she was too late. Just as she reached it, the metal housing buckled and then blew apart into a million pieces of deadly shrapnel. It all registered in the split second before the blast wave hit her. 

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Images of the Season

12/14/2016

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Some recent pictures from walks around Alameda.
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Fashion find ~ Alice in Wonderland skirt

12/13/2016

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I was walking down the street at the Barlow in Sebastopol with my mother recently and stumbled across this lovely skirt in the window at the Mad Mod Shop. I had to go inside for a closer look. The entire shop was gorgeous, with vintage inspired fashion and other pretty things. For more about the shop, visit their website: MadModShop.com
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Holiday Hop ~ Giveaways, free eBooks and More! Dec 12th-18th

12/12/2016

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☃❄✳☃Holiday Hop☃❄✳☃
Visit my Facebook page any time this week and just for stoppying by you can download a free copy of the first book in my urban fantasy romance series, The Haunted Hollow!

PLUS, I’m giving away a swag pack, complete with a Haunted Hollow themed pendant and a free download of book two in my series, to one lucky winner!  This prize is for US only, but I’ve got a few ebooks if someone outside the US wins.

All you have to do to enter to win my prize is LIKE my Facebook page and subscribe to my newsletter: http://eepurl.com/bXppBD.
My prize is available during each day of the hop!

So now that you’ve entered to win my holiday treat, comment below with your favorite holiday movie. I love Nightmare before Christmas.
 
After visiting me, head on over to the event page and hop to all of the 100+ authors, bloggers, and book pages giving out prizes. Happy Holidays! https://www.facebook.com/events/1101537709967416/

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My first furry fan!

12/9/2016

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Meet Bailey, my first furry fan. I confess, I love all things kitty. There's nothing quite like a cup of tea, a kitty in the lap, and a great book in hand. 
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Fairy doors of Alameda

12/7/2016

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Do you have fairy doors in your town?
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Want to win more than 60 science fiction romance novels?

12/5/2016

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Of course you do! To celebrate the end of fall, I’ve teamed up with more than 60 fantastic science fiction romance authors to give away a huge collection of novels, PLUS a Kindle Fire to one lucky winner! 
 
You can win my novel BRING ME TO RUIN, plus books from authors like Cathryn Cade, Laurie A. Green, Pauline Baird Jones, Sabine Priestly, Veronica Scott, Carol Van Natta and MORE. #scifirom #sfrb #sweepstakes
 
Enter the giveaway by clicking here: bit.ly/sci-fi-rom
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    Tess Rider

    writes romance at the crossroads of the paranormal, science fiction, and fantasy. She lives with her wonderfully eccentric husband in an equally quirky Victorian in the San Francisco Bay Area. An avid cat lover in search of her next cat, Tess is a huge fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Doctor Who. She’s an accountant by day, a novelist by night, and an artist at heart 24/7.

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