Another Thanksgiving classic...

Enjoy. :)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow US peeps! (Happy Thursday to everyone else. LOL)

I'm thankful for my family, pets, friends, readers, and the fact that I'm blessed enough to be able to work doing my dream job.

It's time once again to trot out one of my absolute favorite Thanksgiving favorites. Count Boogie and "How to Dominate a Turkey."

Enjoy! :)

Release Day: Porpoisefully Yours (Placida Pod 4)

Woot! It's release day! The fourth book in my Placida Pod dolphin shifter series, Porpoisefully Yours, is now available. This also marks my 50th release with Siren-BookStrand. :)

http://www.bookstrand.com/porpoisefully-yours

Blurb:

[Siren Everlasting Classic ManLove: Erotic Alternative Paranormal Romance, M/M, shape-shifters, sex toys, HEA]

The Samhain superpod is over, but Sean Morita isn’t convinced Erik’s dead. Sean and Emery Nadel are settling into their new home for their first Christmas together, and Sean wants to make it a great one. It should be a happy occasion, but then tragedy strikes another pod, changing their own lives forever.

Emery won’t publicly admit his doubts that Erik’s gone for good. For the time being, he wants to focus on his new responsibilities as the Placida Pod’s Alpha. But how will he and Sean handle the toughest challenge of all—parenthood?

The past returns in an unexpected way, testing the strength of the extended Nadel family and bringing the pod and friends together like never before. Now it’s left to Sean to dig deep inside himself and stand alone to protect everything he holds dear in a desperate showdown that will either rip them apart forever, or finally bring them peace and healing.

A Siren Erotic Romance

Tymber Dalton is a Siren-exclusive author.

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The other books in the series are:

1 - Accidentally on Porpoise
2 - Porpoiseful Intent
3 - Without Porpoise

You can find my BookStrand releases under all my pen names on my author page at:

http://www.bookstrand.com/tymber-dalton

We remember.

I was standing in the bathroom, washing my hair in the sink. I had the TV on and heard the news come on. I remember walking out to the living room and standing there, water just running off my head, as I stared at the TV in shock.

That was what my grandmother said any time the assassination of JFK was brought up. She talked about that day in November of 1963, eight years before I was born, the same way I talk about the Challenger disaster, or 9/11. My grandmother would have been 41 at the time, a little younger than I am now. Tampa, where I grew up, was a special player in the events, because JFK visited here a few days before the Dallas trip. We even have a Kennedy Boulevard, which was part of his motorcade route and renamed in his memory.

Growing up, I remember the constant shadow over the events of that day. The conspiracy theories.

When I was with my ex husband, we ran an auto repair business. One of our customers was an elderly couple. The husband had been a radio operator onboard Air Force One that day in Dallas, and had interesting, albeit sad, anecdotes about Lyndon Johnson that tragic day.

It's only been in the past few years that science has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that, yes, Oswald could have made the killing shots from his nest. It will likely never be able to disspell all the surrounding mystery, or answer other questions about various conspiracy theories. I heard an interetsting theory just the other day that it's hard for people to believe that one angry young man, who obviously had other issues going on in his life, could have been "lucky" enough to snuff out such a vibrant man. The person being interviewed went on to posit something along the lines of when you can have an angry, disturbed lone gunman walk into a school or a movie theatre and take lives, it's not such a stretch to think they'd go after such a high-profile target. Especially fifty years ago, when the Secret Service didn't have all the high-tech equipment they have today, or the inherently evil acts to take into consideration that we read about on an increasingly frequent basis.

Yes, JFK was flawed and human. We can debate ad naseum what might have been. But today is an indellible mark on our history, a slub in the threads of our shared history and consciousness. A mark that can easily be conjured with a name, just as so many others can. Dallas. 9/11. Sandy Hook. Challenger. Columbia. Three Mile Island. Katrina. Mt. St. Helens. Columbine. Aurora. Virginia Tech. Andrew. Sandy. Triangle Shirtwaist. Jonestown. Johnstown. Luby's. Texas Bell Tower. Hindenburg. Apollo 1.

There are more, many more, too numerous to count, especially if you start taking events outside our nation's borders into consideration. They all are woven into the tapestry of our national history. For some, as active witnesses or survivors, for others as students or children watching events unfold through old footage or the words of others. Some are deliberate acts of evil, some are simply acts of nature, and some are the result of hubris or human fuck-ups.

The only thing we can do is pick up and move forward, hopefully wiser, stronger, and more unified with our fellow Americans as a result. And to never let such incidents ever completely be laid to rest in our collective memories, lest we forget the painful lessons they teach.

Namaste, peeps.

Winnah, winnah!

Okay, the winners from the latest giveaway for the salt and pepper shakers are...

Salt and pepper shaker set: MellyM

Swag envelope winners: Claudette Heron, Debby236

Congrats to all the winners! Please email me at tymberdalton AT gmail DOT com with Contest Winner in the subject line so I don't miss it. Shoot me an email by Monday, 11/25, with your full name and snail mail address so I can get these out in the mail to everyone.

Tomorrow is release day for Porpoisefully Yours (Placida Pod 4). If you haven't already, you can click here to pre-order it from Siren-BookStrand.

And if you use a Kindle, you can still order it from Siren-BookStrand, and they'll send it right to your device. Click here for instructions on how to do that.

Another "fintastic" giveaway!

Giveaway is closed, winners are posted here. Stay tuned for the next giveaway, coming soon!

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Time for another giveaway! As I said, I picked up more of the salt and pepper shakers (and other goodies) to give away. The fourth book in my Placida Pod series, Porpoisefully Yours, releases in less than a week on 11/22 (what a date!) and is available for pre-order now. This book also marks my 50th release with Siren-BookStrand. :)

You know the drill. I'll pick the winners from the comments (after removing spam or duplicates) by using random.org's number generator.

Since a lot of the winners aren't responding, I'm lowering the number of swag envelopes I've been offering as runner-up prizes. I'll pick three winners: one will get the salt and pepper shaker set, the other two will get swag envelopes. (Yes, you can keep entering even if you won in the past. LOL)

One entry per person. Open world-wide, void where prohibited, must be of legal age, yadda-yadda TEH LEGALZ!

Remember, if Google/Blogger wants to make you "anonymous" leave a name or email addy or something in the comment so I can distinguish you from everyone else.

All you have to do is comment. :) Say hi, ask me a question, whatever. I'll pick the winners on Wednesday, 11/20. Good luck!

If you haven't read the first three books, Accidentally on Porpoise, Porpoiseful Intent and Without Porpoise, they're available in e-book format from Siren-BookStrand, Kindle, Nook, etc. and the first two books are combined as one print volume if you prefer that format.

And yes, I'm working on Wyatt's book. He's the alligator shifter who is a friend of Emery's. :)

Blurb for Placida Pod 4 - Porpoisefully Yours:

AVAILABLE: Friday, November 22nd

[Siren Everlasting Classic ManLove: Erotic Alternative Paranormal Romance, M/M, shape-shifters, sex toys, HEA]

The Samhain superpod is over, but Sean Morita isn’t convinced Erik’s dead. Sean and Emery Nadel are settling into their new home for their first Christmas together, and Sean wants to make it a great one. It should be a happy occasion, but then tragedy strikes another pod, changing their own lives forever.

Emery won’t publicly admit his doubts that Erik’s gone for good. For the time being, he wants to focus on his new responsibilities as the Placida Pod’s Alpha. But how will he and Sean handle the toughest challenge of all—parenthood?

The past returns in an unexpected way, testing the strength of the extended Nadel family and bringing the pod and friends together like never before. Now it’s left to Sean to dig deep inside himself and stand alone to protect everything he holds dear in a desperate showdown that will either rip them apart forever, or finally bring them peace and healing.

A Siren Erotic Romance

Tymber Dalton is a Siren-exclusive author.

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The other books in the series are:

1 - Accidentally on Porpoise
2 - Porpoiseful Intent
3 - Without Porpoise

You can find my BookStrand releases under all my pen names on my author page at:

http://www.bookstrand.com/tymber-dalton

Updated book list.

Yes, I finally remembered to update (and upload!) the newest version of my booklist.

You can find the .pdf here on Google drive.

Available for pre-order: Porpoisefully Yours (Placida Pod 4)

Woot! The latest book in my Placida Pod dolphin shifter series is now available for pre-order. Porpoisefully Yours releases on 11/22 from Siren-BookStrand. It's also my fiftieth book with Siren-BookStrand (if you consider all four of my pen names)!

http://www.bookstrand.com/porpoisefully-yours

Blurb:

[Siren Everlasting Classic ManLove: Erotic Alternative Paranormal Romance, M/M, shape-shifters, sex toys, HEA]

The Samhain superpod is over, but Sean Morita isn’t convinced Erik’s dead. Sean and Emery Nadel are settling into their new home for their first Christmas together, and Sean wants to make it a great one. It should be a happy occasion, but then tragedy strikes another pod, changing their own lives forever.

Emery won’t publicly admit his doubts that Erik’s gone for good. For the time being, he wants to focus on his new responsibilities as the Placida Pod’s Alpha. But how will he and Sean handle the toughest challenge of all—parenthood?

The past returns in an unexpected way, testing the strength of the extended Nadel family and bringing the pod and friends together like never before. Now it’s left to Sean to dig deep inside himself and stand alone to protect everything he holds dear in a desperate showdown that will either rip them apart forever, or finally bring them peace and healing.

A Siren Erotic Romance

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The other three books in the Placida Pod series are:

• Accidentally on Porpoise
• Porpoiseful Intent
• Without Porpoise

And Wyatt's book (the alligator shifter) is in progress. :)

Finally...

It only took Callie the Crakypottamus Kitty TWO years to use the shelf I installed under the window by my desk. LOL (Some of the other cats have used and love it.)

Now she thinks she owns the joint. :)

Why aren't you paying attention to MEEEEE?

Write Your Ass Off: Another Facebook warning for authors.

I blogged about it today, another religious troll making the rounds, friending erotic romance authors. Yet another reason authors should be using Facebook pages and not profiles: http://writeyourassoff.blogspot.com/2013/11/another-reason-why-authors-should-use.html