I am a writer who loves story, no matter the genre and have my heart in the past, present, and the future.  So I hope you get the chance to enjoy all of my novels because they are coming at you in a Big Way in 2012.

First up is new hope for my beloved gothics!  The Mistress of Trevelyan and His Dark Desires (The Trevelyan Series) are now available on Kindle.  Classic mystery and romance set in the demure, but sexy Victorian Age, where women emerged from the confines of culture and society to take control of their lives.  I grew up loving Mary Stewart, Victoria Holt, and Phyllis A. Whitney and love the tale of a romance wrapped up in a murder mystery that keeps you on the edge of your seat.

Samhain Publishing re-released Midnight Secrets and Darkest Dreams, the first two books of my Killdaren Series, sexy gothics with a touch of the paranormal.  Book three, Silken Shadows will be re-released in July of 2012.

In January, my scorching hot Weldon Brothers Series will get a new look.  So be on the watch for Jesse in Wild Irish and Jackson in Smooth Irish.  If you’ve never had a taste of a Southern Bad Boy Romance then you are definitely missing something good.

In February heart-pounding suspense and romance will take center stage with the release of my military thriller, Tactical Deception.  Roger and Mari plunge headfirst into a terrorist plot that is tearing the heart out of America.  This is the much awaited sequel to and I am so excited to be starting off 2012 with this no holds barred race into danger and love.

There’s more!  But I will save news about Tales from the Dark Domain: Aerik the Eternal, Bewitching the Wolf (Shadowmen Series Book 5), and Hot Irish (Weldon Brothers Series Book 3) for later!

Thanks to all who email me your support and post reviews.  I can’t tell you how much your words encourage me.  You give me hope.

Bring on the New Year!  And never give up on your dreams.  Remember every day to Dream, Believe, Create, Inspire, Love, and Heal.

Jenni

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Is he her darkest dream… or her most terrifying nightmare?

Today, drum roll please, I am unveiling the fabulous new cover for MIDNIGHT SECRETS, my April 12, 2011 ebook rerelease from Samhain Publishing, a sexy murder mystery that will chill your spine one moment then curl your toes the next.  This is the first book in my Killdaren Series about cursed brothers who encounter sisters determined to find truth and love even even in the face death.

In preparation for this release my seven suspenseful sentences will now come from MIDNIGHT SECRETS  For a longer excerpt of when Sean holds Cassie at gunpoint you’ll have to revisit Week 2 of Seven Suspenseful Sentence Sunday.   To set the stage for you, Cassie has gone undercover as a maid in a castle to discover the truth behind her cousin Mary’s death, a quest that will cost her more than she ever dreamed.

“The sound grew insistently louder until I realized I wasn’t dreaming and the screeching was coming from outside.

Rushing to the window, I saw the glass roof of the gargoyle-guarded building glow like an eerie sun. That’s were the sound was coming from. As I stared with my heart pounding, the noise suddenly died.

What had it been? Had it been a woman crying for help? Then the light from the building flickered wildly, as if a huge moth had been pinned over a flame and someone stood watching it flutter in helpless torment.”

If you pre-order on Amazon or Barnes and Noble then make sure you put Samhain Publishing along with MIDNIGHT SECRETS and Jennifer St. Giles into the search window.  You want the copy with this fabulous cover.

Update on me.  The clock measures seconds but I swear a week goes by with every tick.  I won’t even get into the tock part.  You’ll see on my Facebook page that I ventured out to hear the band Personal Favorite rock a college bar in Athens, Georgia and I was really impressed.  Chris, the son of my BFF, Jacquie-fantastic writer-D’Alessandro, was the drummer.  Chris’s friend Gray played base guitar, and his friend John sang and played the electric guitar.  You won’t have heard of them yet, but I hope you do someday.  They were awesome.

Waiting to hear about the job for the cancer center.  I want to be part of a ground breaking program to bring wellness writing classes online to patients.  I could merge both my nursing and writing skills in an awesome way, so please send prayers and all of the positive energy you can imagine my way for this to happen.   If this doesn’t workout I may strike out on my own and do this, but it would be so much better to be part of the amazing group of people at this cancer wellness center.

And lastly, besides the “I’ve got more to do than I can possibly get done” situation, I have a new-for-me concept kicking around in my brain amid the dozens of unwritten stories hounding me.  That concept revolves around the idea of energy and the world around me.  We all project and attract it.  I decided that yesterday, after having a glass of iced tea dumped in my lap at a restaurant by the waiter that I need to find a way to change what I attract from the universe toward me fast.

Feel free to share your ideas with me.

Go Forth, Dream, Believe Create, and Inspire.
Forgive the typos and have a great day.
Jenni

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We can’t help but search our souls after the last turkey has been blessed and eaten, the last carol has been sung, the last Christmas tree turned off, the last present is opened, the last New Year’s Eve bell has rung, and the last Valentine opened.  After each of these lasts, when we look into ourselves we see so many things both good and bad, things that make us both happy and sad, things we wish were different, things and people we have lost, things we wish were better, and things we would never change because they are just perfect.  This past year, and yes, even the year before, have been especially difficult for me.  And I got to thinking about the painful changes and the difficulties I faced and will face and found  that I could so easily be saddened or even over-whelmed by it all.   And when I look at the state the world and the United States are in, I wonder how there can be any hope?

Yet I still hope and I know why.

Collateral Damage originated as a military term referring to unattended or incidental damage from an action taken.  The phrase has since been used to describe so much more.  If you think about it, we are all victims of  Collateral Damage in life.   There is no person who remains unharmed from the decisions and actions of those around them.  In my book, Collateral Damage, a December 14th release from Samhain Publishing, I delve into this issue in the many faces it can show.  Everyone in the story is affected by the Collateral Damage from the actions of the people and the institutions around  them and from the events occurring in the world as well.  No one is damage free.

Yet the characters are thrilled to be alive, and I know why.  And not just because I wrote the story, but because I choose to do the same thing in my life that they chose to do in theirs.  (Yes, ask any writer…characters do make choices.  They take on a life of their own in the magic of putting them on the page.)  What choice am I talking about?

Whatever happens to us in life, we have the power to choose how we are going to view what happened, how we are going to react to what happened, and how we are going to place what happened into the huge jigsaw puzzle that all of life makes up.

People are not perfect.  Life is a struggle.  We cannot isolate or compartmentalize events or hurts and make them the sole focus of our minds and angst.  The human experience, all of its highs, all of its lows, all of its joys, and all of its pain needs to be embraced as a whole.

We can choose to give thanks for the many things that are good.

We can choose to bear and positively change the things that are bad.

Above all else, we can  choose to love both ourselves and others, especially at This Time of Year.

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