Giveaway Hop: The Secret of Lucianne Dove by Roberta L. Smith

This giveaway is a thank you to followers!
This giveaway is part of the Gratitude Giveaways Blog Hop hosted by I Am A Reader, Not A Writer and All-Consuming Books. There are many great blogs participating in this hop. After you enter here, you can hop over to some of the other blogs listed below and enter their giveaways too. While you are here, please also enter my other giveaway.

What's up for grabs in this giveaway?
The Secret of Lucianne Dove by Roberta L. Smith
2 print copies and 2 eBooks 
There will be four (4) winners. Each winner will receive either one (1) print copy or one (1) eBook. 

Summary from Goodreads:
Lucianne Dove came to Virginia City during its heyday, a bride with a past that would eventually destroy her. A century and a quarter later, crusty newspaper reporter Mickey McCoy comes to town. Officially he's been sent by his boss to do a fluff piece. But Mickey has come for reasons of his own. Curious coincidences have convinced him that something important will take place; something that will free him from a painful past. So what happens when Lucianne's spirit makes contact? Mickey begins a quest to find out who she is and what she wants. And when he succeeds, there are far-reaching consequences. Two souls from two different eras seeking to transform their legacies makes for a paranormal tale with a heart, a soul, and a message of forgiveness.

You can read my review here.

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Fill out the form below. Please select if you want to be entered to win a print copy, an eBook, or either one. Obviously, your chances will be higher if you are entered to win either format.

About this giveaway:
Giveaway ends at midnight on November 27. Giveaway is open internationally. Winners will be selected using Random.org. Winners will be announced on this blog and by email. Winners will have 3 days to contact me to provide address or a new winner will be selected.

Thank you for entering and good luck!

Sorry! This giveaway is now closed!

Winners of print copy:
Sherry L
Robin R

Winners of eBook:
Kat
Lucia

Guest Post: How I Came To Write Paranormal Novels

Guest post by Roberta L. Smith, author of The Secret of Lucianne Dove.

Aside from writing, my passion is the paranormal and I don’t have a psychic bone in my body. But then again, maybe we all do to some degree.

With my interest so keen, I took classes to try to develop a sixth-sense skill set. I had limited success. I bent a spoon once. In an effort to elicit an out-of-body experience, I lay on my bed stone-still for three hours. When I started to leave my body I jerked in surprise and stopped it from happening. All that effort wiped out in an instant. Grrrr.

Now I like all this stuff, but if I could pick a paranormal experience to happen to me, I’d like to see—or better yet—meet a ghost. So seventeen years ago my husband and I started visiting haunted hotels. That quest, combined with inspirational treks to historic Old West mining towns like Virginia City, Nevada and Bodie, California, resulted in my first novel, The Secret of Lucianne Dove.

In Lucianne I tried to create a story where readers would feel the interaction with my ghost was possible—where they could believe the experience could happen to them. The story’s intent is to intrigue and haunt, not scare. The tale takes place in Virginia City and most of the sites in the book are real. The ghost is a composite of two nineteenth century, real-life soiled doves (term for prostitutes). My lead character is an average Joe, er Mickey, whose life takes a turn for the paranormal, and by the end of the story he’s glad it did.

Mickey is very dear to my heart and after I finished my first book, I needed to spend more time with him. This resulted in two follow-up novels. Chapel Playhouse finds Mickey in a much more frightening situation, unraveling a mystery, saving a life, and battling a malicious, misguided ghost. It is available now. The Accordo, to be released next year, puts Mickey through the wringer. In fact, he may not be up for any more paranormal adventures after this one. That’s why my fourth novel is a romance that has nothing to do with ghosts. Well, not real ones anyway.

About the author:
Roberta is a native of Southern California and a graduate of the University of Redlands. She lives with her husband and writes full time. She is the happy member of two clubs: The High Desert Branch of the California Writers Club and Victor Valley Vettes Corvette Club. Now if she can just figure out a ghost story that involves Corvettes.

Teaser Tuesdays Nov. 8

Teaser Tuesdays was created by MizB of Should Be Reading.

My teaser for the week:

"He thinks if I don't use his name people will forget. But people don't forget and they don't forgive either. And once you are one thing, people won't let you become another."

The Secret of Lucianne Dove by Roberta L. Smith, p. 176


Anyone can participate in Teaser Tuesdays. Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
• Be careful to NOT include spoilers! (Make sure that what you share doesn't give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title and author.

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