A CHAPTER SHARE

/ Kristy Tate

Because sharing is caring.

This is an open invitation to share your first chapter. In the comments, please leave a link to a place where you have your first, or favorite, chapter online. If you’d like, leave a buy link, a one sentence teaser, and a cover image as well.

I’ll start the fun. My story, The Little White Christmas Lie, can be found the Christmas on Main Street boxed set. You can also read it (well, most of it) here. Little White Christmas Lie

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Neither Carson nor Millie know that their lives are about to spin out of control thanks to a patch of black ice, a cow, and a little white Christmas lie.

46 thoughts on “A CHAPTER SHARE”

  1. Thanks for this opportunity!

    I hope it’s OK, I’m going to leave a link to my SoundCloud page – I’ve got sample chapters from all my books in Audiobook format there…

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  6. Will Ashley spend Christmas brooding over bitter memories? Or will Craig, a dynamic paraplegic, present the deserving divorcée with a gift she can’t resist?

    Christmas Crush

    Currently $0.99, marked down from $2.99 (Limited Time Offer).
    Read the entire first chapter plus the first chapters of my other romances at http://www.bayouloveromances.blogspot.com. Enjoy!

    Thank you for this opportunity to share, Kristy.
    Mickie Sherwood
    ~~Sweet, and spicy romance – a heartbeat away! ~~
    http://www.mickiesherwood.com/blog
    http://www.twitter.com/MickieSherwood

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  8. Thank you for the opportunity to post our first chapters here, Kristy! 🙂

    When the discovery of a dead body on board a luxury sailing boat rocks the close-knit community of St. Eves, Charlotte Denver turns amateur sleuth from her marina front café to help bring the killer to justice. As the murder sets a chain of events in motion, the race is on to solve the mystery before tragedy strikes again. There’s a jaw-dropping climax in this, the first book in the Charlotte Denver Cozy Mystery series. Will you guess the twist?
    Click the link to read chapter one and if you enjoy it, you can download the book for free from selected online retailers!
    http://sherribryan.com/tapas-carrot-cake-and-a-corpse-chapter-1/

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  9. First, thanks for the open invitation.

    Second, here’s my link: http://tinyurl.com/truebride

    The True Bride and the Shoemaker follows the tale of Peter Talbot, a shoemaker struggling to keep his shop open as factories churn out cheap shoes. With the gift of griffin hide, he embarks on an unexpected adventure which introduces him to the hidden magic within Pippington.

    Pippington is a town somewhere between the period piece setting of Downton Abbey and the magic of Once Upon A Time.

    Third, here’s a direct link to my trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8CzfmD2GBI

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  11. Love the cover for The Little White Christmas Lie, Kristy!

    I’m giving a shout out today to the first book in my Lost Colony Series, BREAKING TIES
    Sweet and classy historical romance!

    It has a somber beginning…
    “Sometimes murder isn’t as messy, up-close, and personal as many people imagine it to be. Sometimes it is distant and impersonal — as simple as crossing a line through a name on a sheet of paper. Or one hundred and fifteen names in our case.” — Rose Payne, the ship’s clerk

    Here’s the link to read the first chapter on WattPad: https://www.wattpad.com/story/17426371-breaking-ties-lost-colony-series-1.

    Enjoy! Wishing all of our readers a very Merry Christmas and happy holidays to those who celebrate other holidays. 🙂

    –Jo
    http://www.JoGrafford.com

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  16. Thank you for your generosity! My first book is titled I.O.U. SEX.

    Best friends June, Kiki, and Peggy graduated from Dallas’s Rayburn High School – all of them still virgins. After all, they were good girls. Years later, when the three women get together and read June’s high school diary, they joke about the sexual frustration they caused their steady boyfriends back then. That’s when Kiki makes a startling statement.

    “When you think about it, and I’m only trying to be fair, we owe those guys sex.”

    With bawdy jabs and tipsy laughter, they vow to track down their old boyfriends and just DO IT, which is something they definitely did NOT do back in high school. Lives intertwined, the three friends share their quest with sexy, poignant, and sometimes hilarious results.

    Is each woman’s sexual I.O.U. paid in full? Will everyone get what he or she deserves? Or is this just another one of Kiki’s crazy ideas?

    The best place to read the opening chapters is through Amazon’s “look inside” feature. Here’s the link:

    Unfortunately, I couldn’t get the book cover to post in your comments.

    I’m hoping my second book, a sweet romance titled Bluebonnets for Elly, will be re-released before the end of the year.

    Happy Holidays! and thanks again.

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  17. Thanks for the opportunity! Love your cover.
    You can read the first chapter of my historical romance, which is set in December 1814 in New Orleans, during the Battle of New Orleans. Next week, from Dec 21-25, To Save A Lady, will be free on Amazon. So if you like the first chapter, grab you a free copy. Book 2 is coming next year. Actually, I intended to have it done sooner but I signed a 3-book contract and I have had to put it on hold to get the other books written. Too much to do and not enough time!

    Here’s the link: http://frenchquarterbrides.blogspot.com/

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  18. This is very kind of you, Kristy. Thank you! I feel like have been given an early Christmas present! I just started my blog last week. I’m so glad! Looks like I’m just in time.

    This is the first chapter to my short story published in the ‘Space Kitties’ anthology. I’ve revised it since then, and my goal is to self-publish this story on my own next year and turn it into a series. Genre is sci-fi fantasy.

    I think anyone who loves cats, space travel, and humor will like this story. It’s filled with faith, friendship, and fun! Here’s the blurb, and the link. ‘Join Tebbs, his sister, Kibby, and his loveable team of space cats for a rescue mission that’s out of this world.’ http://happilyindieafter.blogspot.com/p/about.html

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  19. Thanks so much for this opportunity … and Happy Holidays! I have been a follower of MFRW for about a year now and found the postings so valuable. In fact it brought me here. (-:

    The first book in my A Murder in Texas series debuts January 11, and I am so excited. Stranger at My Door pits a psychically damaged cop and a local bad girl. Here’s a link to the first chapter and buy links:

    http://www.entangledpublishing.com/stranger-at-my-door/

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  20. My website includes a description and the first chapter of all of my romantic suspense novels. Visit http://www.krisbock.com/ and click on the page for each individual book to read these. Or, of course, use the sample feature on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/author/krisbock. Each of these books has a 4.2 star average or above.

    In Counterfeits, stolen Rembrandt paintings bring danger to a small New Mexico town.

    Whispers in the Dark features archaeology and intrigue among ancient Southwest ruins.

    What We Found is a mystery with strong romantic elements about a young woman who finds a murder victim in the woods.

    The Mad Monk’s Treasure follows the hunt for a long-lost treasure in the New Mexico desert. In

    The Dead Man’s Treasure, estranged relatives compete to reach a buried treasure by following a series of complex clues.

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  21. Thanks so much for the opportunity to share my story with everyone. Before I share my chapter, I want to wish you a very happy holiday.

    My recent story is KNIGHT OF RAPTURE.

    For months Lord Arik has been trying to find the precise spell to rescue his wife, Rebeka, but the druid knight will soon discover that reaching her four hundred years in the future is the easiest part of his quest.

    Bran, the dark druid, follows Arik across the centuries, tireless in his quest for revenge. He’ll force Arik to make a choice, return to save his beloved family and home or stay in the 21st century and save Rebeka. He can’t save them both.

    Rebeka Tyler has no recollection of where she’s been the past five months. On top of that, ownership of her home, Fayne Manor, is called into question. When accidents begin to happen it looks more and more like she is the target. Further complicating things is the strange man who conveniently appears wherever trouble brews—watching her, perhaps even….protecting her? Or is he a deliberate attempt to distract her? Rebeka can only be sure of one thing—her family name and manor have survived for over eleven centuries. She won’t let them fall… in any century.

    Chapter One is available at http://ruthacasie.blogspot.com/p/excerpt-knight-of-rapture.html

    It’s currently on sale for $0.99 at
    Amazon: http://amzn.to/1CtC7ad
    BN: http://bit.ly/1McK4oC
    KOBO: http://bit.ly/1NaqW7Q
    iBook: http://apple.co/1M5o92x

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