tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45488861186930047192024-03-13T06:49:00.577-04:00'Tween You and Me‘Tween You and Me is a celebration of the writing process and a glimpse into my creative core. It allows readers to preview my works in progress, enjoy new, unique works created just for them, and hear what I’m up to. Most importantly, it gives me a chance to share my love of all things fantastic and fun!Sam Cheeverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18345859454984056740noreply@blogger.comBlogger218125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4548886118693004719.post-76876164988600535772013-10-31T07:40:00.001-04:002013-10-31T07:40:25.051-04:00I've moved!It's true, I used to have a blog here. #:0) But I've combined my blog with my website so visitors can enjoy one stop shopping! If you'd like to see what's on my mind or get information about WIPs, new releases, and contests, you can visit my new blog, entitled Eclectic Insights, here!
Thanks for stopping by!Sam Cheeverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18345859454984056740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4548886118693004719.post-90792283449523152342013-01-27T09:03:00.000-05:002013-01-27T09:03:34.114-05:00Sam's Sunday Snippets
When your name is Valentine, February’s pretty much gonna suck.
Valentine Smith H-A-T-E-S the month of February. The constant jokes about her name and comparisons to the chubby guy with arrows are enough to make her want to run and hide for the entire month.
But, this Valentine's Day, the ultimate joke is about to be played on poor Valentine. She's supposed to choke on a chocolate heart and Sam Cheeverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18345859454984056740noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4548886118693004719.post-24859479853154789082013-01-24T16:25:00.000-05:002013-01-24T16:25:56.712-05:00Thursday Twisted LinksHa! I must be crazy. But here goes.
Stretchy pants. Edits. Chicken and noodles.
God I love stretchy pants. Don't you? When I think of all the years, when I was young and stupid, that I wore tight clothes that threatened to dissect me in several places, I wonder I even survived it. But those days are over. As I get older I've learned to appreciate the wonder Sam Cheeverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18345859454984056740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4548886118693004719.post-40787866789426252852013-01-20T11:41:00.000-05:002013-01-20T11:41:05.015-05:00Sunday Snippet
Book 1: Gods of Love series
In honor of the upcoming Valentine's Day, this is week two highlighting my Cupid titles. This week, I'm featuring the first book in my Gods of Love series. Enjoy!
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Daphne Charissa isn't a chubby little guy with wings and a quiver of arrows. But she does belong to the Cupid race—a race of devastatingly beautiful creatures who excel at helping others find Sam Cheeverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18345859454984056740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4548886118693004719.post-56897440454746068642013-01-18T12:08:00.001-05:002013-01-25T05:43:01.055-05:00Thursday Tidbits - Join My Kitchen Team?
For today's tidbit, I'm putting out a call for anybody who wants to be a member of my kitchen team. What? You've never heard that term before? Oh yeah. It's been around...oh I don't know...ten minutes or so, at least.
A street team just seems like too much work, so I thought maybe I'd start small and just do a team that would fit into a single room. And since the kitchen is my favorite room inSam Cheeverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18345859454984056740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4548886118693004719.post-24067567308866724982013-01-13T10:05:00.002-05:002013-01-13T10:05:34.779-05:00Sam's Sunday Snippets
Valentine's Day is just around the corner! In celebration, I thought I'd highlight all my fun and sexy Cupid titles over the next few weeks. Starting with my V-day title from last year, Cupid Only Rings Twice. Enjoy!
This Valentine’s Day, Rori’s gonna meet an honest to god Cupid. And he’ll use more than arrows to win her love.
Rori Foster is too beautiful to find love. Men just can’t seem Sam Cheeverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18345859454984056740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4548886118693004719.post-65755038193627122312013-01-10T05:52:00.000-05:002013-01-10T05:52:51.350-05:00Thursday Twisted LinksThis week's link has been literally wrenched from my poor brain, kicking and screaming. I think my ears are bleeding. But here goes.
Resolutions Flowers Work Ethic
Resolutions are hard. Every year, heady with the bright promise of the months ahead, we make proclamations about what we're going to do to improve ourselves. Our intentions are good. Our hopes are Sam Cheeverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18345859454984056740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4548886118693004719.post-54872640804383528772013-01-06T17:07:00.000-05:002013-01-06T17:19:14.670-05:00Sam's Sunday Snippet
Bright City Lights – Book 1: City of Lights
Sometimes it's harder to be apart than it is to be together.
Rabb
is an alpha shifter, a werewolf, who likes to defy both the odds and authority.
He prefers the city lights over the open spaces most shifters enjoy.
Brant
is a politician with a secret that's becoming harder and harder to contain. As
mayor of Bright City, he's determined Sam Cheeverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18345859454984056740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4548886118693004719.post-25280685327664751332013-01-03T07:03:00.001-05:002013-01-03T07:03:37.468-05:00Thursday Tidbits
Book 3: Hoale Construction MysteriesComing Soon!
Returning to Normal - Whatever that is!
Every year I lament the seemingly endless break between Christmas and New Years. Everything seems to stop from a few days before Christmas until a few days after the new year. It's impossible to get anything done and I'm forced, kicking and screaming, from my comfortable, productive rut into the wild and&Sam Cheeverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18345859454984056740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4548886118693004719.post-15339025594032841442012-12-30T07:45:00.001-05:002012-12-30T07:45:50.177-05:00Sam's Sunday Snippets
Nuria, Warrior Monad Third Level is a protector of the magical realm. She occasionally works with guardian angels when the human realm is in danger. When Nuria is called to help a guardian save a human woman from a demon, she isn’t prepared for the woman to turn on them and send the guardian to the Elysian Fields for all eternity. Now Nuria’s on the hot seat with the gods of Olympus, and to Sam Cheeverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18345859454984056740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4548886118693004719.post-22545669456505539662012-12-27T06:49:00.006-05:002012-12-27T06:54:08.644-05:00Thursday Twisted Links
Elf Satisfied: This Christmas, Deirdre’s
own, personal elf has a delicious
present waiting for her!
This week's link might be more interesting than twisted. But it involves a part of our culture that I find fascinating this time of year.
Santa. Elves. Reindeer
Aside from the obvious link with Christmas, why do you suppose these three characters have Sam Cheeverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18345859454984056740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4548886118693004719.post-25934609908606714002012-12-23T09:48:00.000-05:002012-12-24T04:28:29.254-05:00Sam's Sunday Snippets
Elf-Satisfied
This Christmas, Deirdre’s own, personal elf has a delicious present waiting for her!
Deirdre Phillips knows she's skirting trouble when she waits until late on Christmas Eve to finish up her gift shopping. But she has no idea how much trouble, until she walks out of the mall and finds herself embroiled in a timeless war between elves and dark fairies.
It seems that Sam Cheeverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18345859454984056740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4548886118693004719.post-47008953392112800102012-12-20T05:00:00.000-05:002013-01-14T11:00:18.863-05:00Okay, so the World Has Ended – Now What Are We Going to do With all these Zombies?
There’s no question about it, somebody should have come up with an anti-zombie spray months ago. I mean, come on, we all knew this day was coming. The Mayans told us about it last year right? Huh? Twelve hundred years ago? Really? My, how time flies when you’re up to your armpits in zombies.
So anyway, now we have this little zombie problem. There’s no spray to get rid of them, guns don’t Sam Cheeverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18345859454984056740noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4548886118693004719.post-13175481353414334102012-12-16T04:59:00.000-05:002012-12-16T04:59:22.039-05:00Sam's Sunday Snippets
In this short Christmas story, Astra has been
conscripted to deal with a demon that’s been sliding down chimneys after Santa
leaves, stealing toys, and beating up anyone who tries to stop him. The
reportedly hairy, green demon wearing a red Santa suit and hat has been really
hard to catch in previous years, but the Big Guy has grown increasingly tired
of his antics and, this Christmas, has Sam Cheeverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18345859454984056740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4548886118693004719.post-52164636938289064802012-12-13T04:00:00.000-05:002012-12-13T04:30:38.105-05:00Thursday Tidbit: Santa's Goin' Underground!For the sake of the embattled Christmas holiday, and to save its celebrants unnecessary pain and stress, Santa has made an extremely difficult, well-thought-out decision. He's decided to do a lateral pass to a stand-in to take the heat off the holiday. With this goal in mind, he's walked into the sunset with his evil sidekick, the brightly clad Christmas tree, and left Christmas in the capable...Sam Cheeverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18345859454984056740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4548886118693004719.post-73588211213227617832012-12-09T06:39:00.005-05:002012-12-09T16:23:11.398-05:00Sam's Sunday Snippets
Continuing to highlight past Christmas free reads, Astra Gets a Lump of Coal for Christmas is from 2010. Enjoy!
In this short
Christmas story, Astra is forced to spend Christmas in Satan’s backyard,
helping the angels figure out how the green dragons are escaping Hell to
terrorize the human realm on Earth. Astra is thrilled. I mean, there’s nothing
like Hell at Christmastime. The lovely, Sam Cheeverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18345859454984056740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4548886118693004719.post-141922654430612832012-12-06T07:25:00.000-05:002012-12-09T16:23:56.710-05:00Thursday Twisted LinksAs we head towards the end of the world and the zombie apocalypse I thought it might be fun and interesting to talk about how we actually could be overrun by zombies...scientifically that is. Wish me luck, people, cause this one is a doozy!
Zombies. Toxoplasmosa Gondii. Alzheimers.
Yeah, say Sam Cheeverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18345859454984056740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4548886118693004719.post-53277150749191923592012-12-03T05:16:00.000-05:002012-12-09T16:24:17.297-05:00Sam's Sunday Snippets
As Christmas fast approaches, and I busily work to complete this year's Christmas story, I thought it might be fun to highlight previous year's free Christmas reads. So this week's Sunday Snippet is from my 2011 Astra Q Phelps short, The Year the Grinch Stole Santa. Enjoy!
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Astra is determined to take
Christmas off, so she’s been ignoring the nearly constant calls from the North
Pole Sam Cheeverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18345859454984056740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4548886118693004719.post-62564527632135226972012-11-29T16:28:00.000-05:002012-12-09T16:24:36.358-05:00Thursday Tidbit - The Magic of Mistletoe!
Many of us have grown up with the
tradition of kissing under the mistletoe, but I’m guessing most of us don’t
have any idea about the plant or the origins behind its magical aura.
First,
about the plant. Mistletoe is actually a predatory plant, which evolved and
prospered by leeching nutrients from other plants. It’s considered a partial
parasite, because it can grow on its own, but is more Sam Cheeverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18345859454984056740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4548886118693004719.post-84377790895446043672012-11-25T14:46:00.000-05:002012-11-25T14:46:02.741-05:00Sam's Sunday Snippet
Devil Under the Mistletoe - Coming November 29th!
Perdition guide Damian is supposed to escort sexy Amanda to Hell. But he’d much rather keep her.
Damian Noire is a Perdition Guide. He escorts people who die to their rightful spot in Hell. Business always seems to pick up around the Holidays and this Christmas is no exception. Damian’s assignment is to bring a beautiful young woman to HellSam Cheeverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18345859454984056740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4548886118693004719.post-32709936406999804972012-11-22T10:13:00.000-05:002012-11-22T10:16:00.173-05:00Thursday's Twisted LinksSince it lands on Thanksgiving, of course this week's twisted link needs to start with my favorite "eating" holiday. #:0) So here goes. This week's odd set of links is:
Thanksgiving. Red Dawn. Migraines.
Yes, I know. Blood may shoot out of my eyes on this one. But I'm going for it anyway.
What could be better than a holiday that Sam Cheeverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18345859454984056740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4548886118693004719.post-44369879375919223302012-11-18T05:29:00.001-05:002012-11-18T05:31:04.378-05:0010 Questions: The Next Big Thing Blog Hop
I got tagged by Zenobia
Renquist to do a blog hop post for The Next Big Thing. So this week, instead of a Sunday Snippet, I'm participating in the blog hop. I'll do a snippet of the new book next Sunday!
Here goes...
1. What is the title of your latest
book?
Devil Under the Mistletoe – Book 1
Holidays Are Hell series – Release Date 12/01/12
2. Where did the idea come from for
theSam Cheeverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18345859454984056740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4548886118693004719.post-58991140793305480932012-11-15T05:52:00.001-05:002012-11-15T05:54:57.084-05:00Thursday Tidbits
Coming Soon!
DO
THE HOLIDAYS INSPIRE YOU?
I’ll admit it, around this time of
year I start feeling my imagination gearing up. There’s just something about
cool weather, the smell of burning leaves, and the promise of the holiday
season ahead that makes me want to delve into the realm of make-believe.
I think it’s magic.
I believe in magic, don’t you?
That’s why I write paranormalSam Cheeverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18345859454984056740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4548886118693004719.post-88144600281163479792012-11-11T10:14:00.001-05:002012-11-11T10:20:32.082-05:00Sam's Sunday Snippets
This week I'm giving you a sneak preview snippet of Declan Sands' soon to be released dark paranormal romance, Bright City Lights!
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An Alpha, a Politician, and a killer walk into a bar...
Rabb is an alpha shifter, a werewolf, who likes to defy both
the odds and authority. He prefers the city lights over the open spaces most
shifters enjoy.
Brant is a politician with a secret Sam Cheeverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18345859454984056740noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4548886118693004719.post-6897882194801281412012-11-08T12:51:00.001-05:002012-11-08T12:51:40.331-05:00Thursday TidbitsIn honor of the upcoming Thanksgiving season, here are some fun turkey day tidbits. I hope you enjoy them. Source: http://www.coolest-holiday-parties.com/thanksgiving-facts.html
Did you know?
At my house, we have a herd of wild turkeys that occasionally moves into our evergreen trees? Gobble gobble! #:0)
Have you ever heard of Turducken? Apparently this interesting dish, which originated Sam Cheeverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18345859454984056740noreply@blogger.com0