SURGICALLY RE-WRITTEN and CONDENSED Feb-May 2013... A MONUMENTAL JOURNEY is an adventure mystery historical fiction novel that follows a young mans journey (with friends) to find Truth, happiness, purpose, and a long lost Norse tribe.
Story strumpet, tome loving tart, eccentric night owl...these words describe book publicist and erotic romance author Roxanne Rhoads.
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Roxanne has been a writer for as long as she can remember. She swears she was born with a pen in one hand and a book in the other. Her love of books stems form her mother reading bedtime stories to her every night and taking her on weekly trips to the library to hunt the stacks for great reads.
When other children begged for candy and toys when taken to the grocery store Roxanne always asked for a book. It started with Little Golden Books, then moved on to Sweet Valley High, then she fell in love with all things spooky and supernatural and started reading Dean Koontz, Anne Rice, John Saul, Stephen King and anything else she could find that featured a witch, vampire or ghost.
She became a published poet in elementary school when 2 of her poems were selected to appear in a local magazine. All through her school years she attended Young Author's Conferences and wrote for the school newspapers. She won numerous essays and writing contests which earned her savings bonds and scholarships for college.
As a high school junior she started writing for the teen section (Word Up) of the local newspaper The Flint Journal. She also received a scholarship for college from The Flint Journal. In college she wrote for the college paper and a local entertainment magazine, Riff in addition to having in poetry published in small magazines and journals.
After college she tried many jobs including: video clerk, sales clerk, secretary, adult store sales clerk (think of a store similar to Lover's Lane) and small business owner.
She started writing professionally in 2005 quickly finding the niche of erotica and paranormal romance to be to her liking.
One of her first stories was published in Playgirl Magazine and she quickly snagged a job as writer and editor for Tit-elation.com and became an editor for Ephemera Bound Publishing as well as becoming a columnist for Sex-Kitten.net.
Since then she has been published on numerous websites, in magazines, and both print and ebooks.
Her book publishers include Noble Romance, eXcessica, Eternal Press, Xcite Books, Circlet Press, Ravenous Romance, Running Press, Midnight Showcase, Whiskey Creek Press Torrid, Melange Books, L & L Dreamspell, and Pill Hill Press.
After reviewing books for other sites for months she decided to start her own book blog and book review site, Fang-tastic Books, in November of 2008. At the time there were not too many other sites geared towards paranormal and urban fantasy book though that quickly changed.
Roxanne has been learning the ropes of being a published author, how to handle online book promotion, how to be a great book reviewer (snippets of her reviews are published inside many popular books) and how to be a great book blogger for years now.
This prompted her to branch out into the world of Virtual Book Tours since she has a unique advantage of knowing how multiple sides of book promotion operate. So her virtual book tour compnay Bewitching Book Tours was born.
Roxanne now works as a book publicist in addition to being an author.