Blog Tour: THE CINDERELLA SERIES

THE CINDERELLA ROMANCES SERIES

Petie McCarty

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GENRE:  Contemporary Romance

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BLURB:

The Cinderella Romances…Fall in love with the fairy tale all over again.

Modern-day Cinderella stories that provide unlimited opportunities to retell the classic fairy tale, happily with returning characters to share in these adventures.

Cinderella Busted

Once upon a time, in Jupiter Island, Florida . . .

Billionaire developer, Rhett Buchanan, is forced to inspect a shipment of priceless trees and meets the girl of his dreams instead. A bit jaded where women are concerned—since most are gold diggers—Rhett falls head over heels for the Jupiter Island socialite who only wants him, not his money. Except she isn’t the glamorous socialite she appears to be.

She’s the gardener . . .

Betting on Cinderella

Once upon a time in Biloxi, Mississippi . . .

Garrett Tucker inherits his grandfather’s casino empire and steps into the reclusive billionaire’s shoes as the new “Prince of Vegas.” Discovering embezzlement in his newly purchased casino in Biloxi, Garrett goes in undercover. His prime suspect? The new finance supervisor . . . a feisty brunette who stole his heart at first sight. 

Andi Ryan moves to Biloxi to care for her godmother. Taking a job as finance supervisor for the renovated Bayou Princess casino, she discovers someone is skimming from the till. Andi starts her own investigation, worried she will be blamed for the theft when the handsome new owner discovers her godmother likes to gamble.

Industrial espionage is afoot at the Bayou Princess, and Garrett and Andi are soon forced to work as a team to prove her innocence and save the casino before it’s too late.

This swoonworthy modern-day fairy tale joins the other stories in the Cinderella Romances series. Each provides a new opportunity to retell the classic fairy tale, happily with returning characters to share in these adventures.

Par for Cinderella

Once upon a time in Cedar Key, Florida . . .

Golf resort developer Aidan Cross is at loose ends. Something feels missing from his life, but that something isn’t women. He has too many women chasing him now. To confuse things even more, his yacht breaks down off-shore of his next project site in Florida, and Aidan falls for his only competition in the small town—a woman who wants nothing to do with him or his rakish charm.

Casey Stuart is stuck living in Cypress Key, unwilling to abandon her uncle or the golf course they manage together. She doesn’t quite trust the stranger Aidan who shows up in town looking for work, and she vows to steer clear of him and the danger their intense chemistry provokes. Aidan’s stay is temporary, and falling for him promises only heartbreak. 

But Casey needs Aidan’s help when she discovers Cypress Key’s mayor is making underhanded business deals, and she ends up on the wrong side of the powerful crook. Aidan steps in to rescue her, but secrets from his past threaten to bogey their new-found affair. 

This swoonworthy modern-day fairy tale joins the other Cinderella stories in the series. Each provides a new opportunity to retell the classic fairy tale, happily with returning characters to share in these adventures.

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Excerpt One:

from Book One: Cinderella Busted

“Do you buy a lot of plants here?” Buchanan suddenly asked.

Her head snapped up from examining a bent gray frond. She swallowed. “Buy?”

“You must be one of the nursery’s best customers as well as you know the stock and know your way around here.” He gave her that slow, sexy smile again. “Are you buying landscaping for business or pleasure?”

Oh good grief! He thinks I’m a customer.

But why wouldn’t he? Today, she was dressed like one. Surely, he could tell from their conversation she worked here at the nursery. 

Or not. 

He waited for a response. So that was why he had asked her to help him! She grinned. She couldn’t help it. She felt like Cinderella masquerading as a princess at the ball. Maybe she could just avoid answering his question altogether. 

She guided him to the end of the aisle, made the turn to the fifth row of trees, and aimed their steps toward a cluster of Monterrey pines. 

Buchanan put a hand out to stop her. “I hope you’ll let me take you to dinner to thank you for helping me, Lily.”

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INTERVIEW

Where are you from? Tell us a little about yourself!

After spending most of my career working at Walt Disney World and living in Orlando, Florida, I presently share my home on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee with my horticulturist/landscaper husband and a garrulous Nanday conure named Sassy-Smart-Assy, but just Sass for short. My time is spent writing sequels to my Cinderella Romances series and my Regency time-travel series, Lords in Time. 

Last month my publisher, Soul Mate, closed her doors, and with the rights to my Mystery Angel Romances series now returned to me, the stories are being rewritten, retitled, recovered, and rebranded. So, be on the lookout for The Watchers series, hopefully to be published in the very near future.

What inspires and what got you started in writing?

Odd as this will sound, I see movies running in my head. Almost like real feature films in full color. The first one over ten years ago pestered me until I just had to put it to paper, and that was the beginning. If there’s a beginning, a middle and an end to the movie, then that is the next one I write. When the movie is running, I just write as fast as I can to try to keep up. I never stop for the day at the end of a scene, I always stop halfway through the next scene. That way it’s really easy to get the movie restarted.

Tell us about your book? How did it get started?

Driving by Cinderella’s Castle every day on my way to and from work had me itching for my own Cinderella story to tell. Once I had completed the editing process for Cinderella Busted (the first book in my Cinderella Romances series), my editor with Soul Mate Publishing sent me an email telling me she hoped I was working on Garrett’s and Aiden’s stories—two characters from Busted. I wasn’t, but I didn’t tell her that. I just did. Thus, the series got its start.

Where do you write? Is there something you need in order to write (music, drinks?)

I’m lucky to have an office in my home where I do all my writing, typing, and editing. I try to do it in some semblance of quiet if I can get it with a loquacious Nanday conure sharing my home who continuously calls to me if she can’t see me. ☹

What do you like to read?

I LOVE all genres of romance novels, except steam-punk and fantasy, though I have read both. Gotta have the happily ever after! I have over 800 titles in my Kindle Fire and probably half that number of paperbacks on my bookshelves. Did I mention I love to read?

What would your advice be for authors or aspiring in regards to writing?

Read, read, and keep reading! I learned more about writing romance from reading romances than I ever did from the 20+ writing texts I own. And you can learn just as much if not more from bad or poorly written novels as you can from reading the masters. You quickly learn what you don’t like and what not to do.

Anything else you’d like to share?

I would love to thank The Pen and Muse Book Reviews and all the Goddess Fish followers and supporters and bloggers who have visited or participated in my Cinderella Romances series tour this month. This has been a blast and I appreciate all of you.

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Petie spent a large part of her career working at Walt Disney World—”The  Most Magical Place on Earth”—where she enjoyed working in the land of fairy tales by day and creating her own romantic fairy tales by night, including her new series, The Cinderella Romances. She eventually said good-bye to her “day” job to write her stories full-time. These days Petie spends her time writing sequels to her regency time-travel series, Lords in Time, and her cozy-mystery-with-romantic-suspense series, the Mystery Angel Romances.

Petie shares her home on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee with her horticulturist husband and an opinionated Nanday conure named Sassy who made a cameo appearance in No Angels for Christmas. 

Visit Petie’s web site online at http://www.petiemccarty.com or her Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/petie.mccarty.

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