Cocktales, a limited-release anthology of original, never before published material, from some of your favorite bestselling authors is only available till August 26th! Get your copy NOW!
Cocktales Anthology
Publishing Date: May 26th
Cover Designer: CD ReisEach story was specifically written for this anthology.
The goal of the Cocktales Anthology is to raise funds to fight against obstruction of creative expression. Specifically, what we believe are obstruction attempts through the trademarking of common (single) words for titicular use in books / or as a book series (eBooks, print, and audio).Cocktales will only be available May 26th-August 26th.
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*ALL* net profits will be donated to:
Authors already impacted by creative-obstruction (10%), and Romance Writers of America (RWA) (90%) as a general donation intended for their Advocacy Fund.
Contributing Authors Include:
ADRIANA LOCKE
USA Today and Amazon Top 10 Bestselling author Adriana Locke lives and breathes books. After years of slightly obsessive relationships with the flawed bad boys created by other authors, Adriana has created her own. She resides in the Midwest with her husband, sons, and two dogs. She spends a large amount of time playing with her kids, drinking coffee, and cooking. You can find her outside if the weather’s nice and there’s always a piece of candy in her pocket.
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ALEATHA ROMIG
Aleatha Romig is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author who lives in Indiana, USA. She grew up in Mishawaka, graduated from Indiana University, and is currently living south of Indianapolis. Aleatha has raised three children with her high school sweetheart and husband of nearly thirty years. Before she became a full-time author, she worked days as a dental hygienist and spent her nights writing. Now, when she’s not imagining mind-blowing twists and turns, she likes to spend her time a with her family and friends. Her other pastimes include reading and creating heroes/anti-heroes who haunt your dreams!
ALY MARTINEZ
Born and raised in Savannah, Georgia, USA TODAY bestselling author Aly Martinez currently living in South Carolina with her husband and four young children. She passes what little free time she has reading anything and everything she can get her hands on, preferably with a glass of wine at her side.
AMY DAWS
Amy Daws is an Amazon Top 25 bestselling author of sexy contemporary romance that take place in America and across the pond. She’s most known for her footy-playing Harris Brothers and writing the majority of her words in a tire shop waiting room. For more of Amy’s work, visit: http://www.amydawsauthor.com
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APRIL WHITE
APRIL WHITE has been a film producer, private investigator, bouncer, teacher and screenwriter. She has climbed in the Himalayas, lived on a gold mine in the Yukon, and survived a shipwreck. She and her husband live in Southern California with their two sons, dog, various chickens, and a lifetime collection of books. Marking Time, book one of her five-book time travel fantasy series, is the 2016 Library Journal Award winner, and her other works include historical mystery and contemporary romance.
BB EASTON
BB Easton lives in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia with her long-suffering husband, Ken, and two adorable children. She recently quit her job as a school psychologist to write stories about her punk rock past and deviant sexual history full-time. Ken is suuuper excited about it.
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CD REISS
CD Reiss is a New York Times bestselling author. She still has to chop wood and carry water, which was buried in the fine print. Her lawyer is working it out with God but in the meantime, if you call and she doesn’t pick up she’s at the well hauling buckets. Born in New York City, she moved to Hollywood, California to get her master’s degree in screenwriting from USC. In case you want to know, that went nowhere but it did give her a big enough ego to write novels. She’s frequently referred to as the Shakespeare of Smut which is flattering but hasn’t ever gotten her out of chopping that cord of wood. If you meet her in person, you should call her Christine. Text–> cdreiss to 77948 to get a notification whenever I have a new release!
CORINNE MICHAELS
New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestseller Corinne Michaels is the author of nine romance novels. She’s an emotional, witty, sarcastic, and fun-loving mom of two beautiful children. Corinne is happily married to the man of her dreams and is a former Navy wife. She enjoys putting her characters through intense heartbreak and finding a way to heal them through their struggles. Her stories are chock full of emotion, humor, and unrelenting love.
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DAISY PRESCOTT
Writer, traveler, gardener, taco lover, friend of sloths, and USA Today Bestselling Author of romantic comedies.
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DENISE GROVER SWANK
New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author Denise Grover Swank has released over fifty novels and novellas and has sold over two million books. She writes mysteries with romance, humorous romance, light-hearted young adult romance, and urban fantasy. She lives in Blue Springs, Missouri with her four naughty dogs and six imaginative children.
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DYLAN ALLEN
Dylan Allen is a Texas girl with a serious case of wanderlust. A self-proclaimed happily ever junkie, she loves creating stories where her characters chase their own happy endings. When she isn’t writing or reading, eating or cooking, she and her family are planning their next adventure.
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EMMA HART
Emma Hart is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of over thirty novels and has been translated into several different languages. She is a mother, wife, lover of wine, Pink Goddess, and valiant rescuer of wild baby hedgehogs. Emma prides herself on her realistic, snarky smut, with comebacks that would make a PMS-ing teenage girl proud. Yes, really. She’s that sarcastic.
JANA ASTON
Jana Aston likes cats, big coffee cups and books about billionaires who deflower virgins. She wrote her debut novel while fielding customer service calls about electrical bills, and she’s ever grateful for the fictional gynecologist in Wrong that readers embraced so much she was able to make working in her pajamas a reality. Jana’s novels have appeared on the NYT, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists, some multiple times. She likes multiples.
JAYMIN EVE
Jaymin Eve is the USA Today and Amazon top 5 bestselling author of more than 25 fantasy and paranormal romance stories. She lives in Australia with her husband, two little girls, and a couple of crazy pets.
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JESSICA HAWKINS
Jessica Hawkins is a USA TODAY bestselling author known for her “emotionally gripping” and “off-the-charts hot” romance. Dubbed “queen of angst” by both peers and readers for her smart and provocative work, she’s garnered a cult-like following of fans who love to be torn apart…and put back together.
JESSICA PRINCE
Jessica is a wife and mother, a self proclaimed caffeine addict, connoisseur of inexpensive wine, and the worst driver in the state of Texas.When she’s not nose deep in her next manuscript, or binging on sit-coms, you can usually find her with her kindle in hand.
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JULIE A RICHMAN
A native New Yorker living deep in the heart of Texas, Julie is obsessed with reality TV, the existence of past lives, and Bruce Springsteen. And she misses the ocean. Big time.
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JULIE JOHNSON
JULIE JOHNSON is a twenty-something Boston native. When she’s not writing, Julie can most often be found adding stamps to her passport, drinking too much coffee, striving to conquer her Netflix queue, and Instagramming pictures of her dog.
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KF BREENE
KF Breene is a USA Today Bestselling author of paranormal romance, urban fantasy, and fantasy novels with over two million books sold.
KARLA SORENSEN
Karla Sorensen is a wife, mother, writer and life-long hater of folding laundry. She lives with her husband, two sons and big, shaggy rescue dog in Michigan.
KARPOV KINRADE
Karpov Kinrade is the pen name for the husband and wife entertainment duo Lux and Dmytry Karpov-Kinrade. Together, they write award-winning, USAT bestselling books, make music, write screenplays and direct movies — all the things. They live in wine country with their three offspring who have crazy creative genius oozing out of them, one dog who thinks he’s a cat and six cats who all think they rule the world (spoiler alert: they do).
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KATE STEWART
A Texas native, Kate Stewart lives in North Carolina with her husband, Nick, and her naughty beagle, Sadie. She pens messy, sexy, angst-filled contemporary romance as well as romantic comedy and erotic suspense because it’s what she loves as a reader. Kate is a lover of all things ’80s and ’90s, especially John Hughes films and rap. She dabbles a little in photography, can knit a simple stitch scarf for necessity, and on occasion, does very well at whisky.
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KAYTI MCGEE
Kayti McGee lives and loves in beautiful Kansas City, Missouri. Her interests include blood and guts and love and stuff. Also, wine. And your mom.
KENNEDY RYAN
Kennedy Ryan is a Southern girl gone Southern California. A Top 40 Amazon Bestseller, Kennedy writes romance about remarkable women who thrive even in tough times, the love they find, and the men who cherish them. She is a wife and a mother to an extraordinary son. She has always leveraged her journalism background to write for charity and non-profit organizations, but enjoys writing to raise Autism awareness most. Kennedy’s writings have appeared in Modern Mom Magazine, Chicken Soup for the Soul, USA Today and many others. The founder and executive director of a foundation serving Georgia families living with Autism, Kennedy has appeared on Headline News, Montel Williams, NPR and other media outlets as a voice for families living with autism.
KYLIE SCOTT
New York Times Bestselling Australian Romance Author
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L.H. COSWAY
L.H. Cosway lives in Dublin, Ireland. Her inspiration to write comes from music. She thinks that imperfect people are the most interesting kind. They tell the best stories.
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LEIA STONE
Leia Stone is the USA Today bestselling author of the Matefinder series which is optioned for film. She writes urban fantasy and paranormal romance with sassy kick-butt heroines and irresistible love interests.
LEX MARTIN
Lex Martin is the USA Today bestselling author of the Dark Texas Nights series, the Dearest series, and All About the D, books she hopes her readers love but her parents avoid. To stay up-to-date with her releases, subscribe to her newsletter or join her Facebook group, Lex Martin’s Wildcats.
LIV MORRIS
USA Today bestselling author, Liv Morris, resides on the concrete rock known as Manhattan with her first and hopefully last husband, because he’s a keeper.
MARIAH DIETZ
Mariah Dietz lives with her husband and three sons, who are the axis of her crazy and wonderful world in North Carolina. Mariah grew up in a tiny town outside of Portland, Oregon, where she spent most of her time immersed in the pages of books that she both read and created. She has a love for all things that include her family, good coffee, books, traveling, and dark chocolate. She’s also obsessed with Christmas ornaments and all things Disney.
MEGHAN QUINN
Author, wife, adoptive mother, and peanut butter lover. Will dance for laughs, won’t eat anything spicy because you asked, but will squeeze boobs in replace of a hug. Grew up in Southern California, lived in New York, and now resides in Colorado with my wife, our son, two dogs, three cats, and my multiple book boyfriends. Loves love, anything romantic, and will die if I ever meet Tom Hanks. Yay, books!
PENNY REID
Penny Reid is the Wall Street Journal and USA Today Best Selling Author of the Winston Brothers, Knitting in the City, Rugby, and Hypothesis series. She used to spend her days writing federal grant proposals as a biomedical researcher, but now she just writes books. She’s also a full time mom to three diminutive adults, wife, daughter, knitter, crocheter, sewer, general crafter, and thought ninja.
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RACHEL VAN DYKEN
Rachel Van Dyken is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestselling author of regency and contemporary romances. When she’s not writing you can find her drinking coffee at Starbucks and plotting her next book while watching The Bachelor. She keeps her home in Idaho with her Husband, adorable son, and two snoring boxers! She loves to hear from readers! Want to be kept up to date on new releases? Text MAFIA to 66866! You can connect with her on Facebook or join her fan group Rachel’s New Rockin Readers.
Disclaimer: This anthology is not being conducted on behalf of RWA, nor does RWA endorse this anthology or effort. They have, however, graciously agreed to accept the funds.
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