Susan Squires: Your Magic Touch Guest Post and Giveaway

I’ve always written paranormal romance. People who are out of the ordinary, whether vampires or Saxon witches, brilliant hackers or an Artificial Intelligence, just seemed more interesting. And besides, don’t we all want to be extraordinary? I used to fantasize about getting a magic power. After going through several, I decided the super power I want is the ability to give someone five pounds just by touching them. This may have been triggered by several visits to the Academy Awards (guest, not award winner, needless to say.) In the ladies room, I saw beautiful women who were so thin each vertebrae stood out in their back. I really wanted to give them something I could definitely spare.

My most recent series, The Children of Merlin, is about the Tremaine family, whose members have magic in their DNA. Merlin’s magic was dispersed and lost over time, and now it’s gathering again. When one of the Tremaine children meets another with the magic gene, the attraction results in true love and a unique magic power for each. I get to think up a superpower for everybody. Fun. Sounds fun for the characters too, right?

But if you’re extraordinary in some way, your problems can be bigger too, and that’s certainly true for the Tremaines. For one thing, they’re not the only ones with magic. Some magic came from Morgan Le Fay, and the members of Morgan’s Clan don’t like competition. They want the Tremaines dead.

But for another, is it really so easy to be different? Each of the children must wrestle with the certainty that they’ll get magic, and that they’ll be so attracted to another person they really have no choice but to bond for life. In the first of the series, DO YOU BELIEVE IN MAGIC? the bad-boy brother, Tristram, thinks he’s so different from the rest of his family that the magic has passed him by. He’s in for a shock. In HE’S A MAGIC MAN, the oldest sister, Drew, is sure of her destiny. But the man who raises her magic power is an alcoholic who’s still in love with his dead wife. Oooh. That hurts.

Each Tremaine will wrestle with having a destiny, loving almost against their will, and getting a magic power they don’t understand and may not be able to control. The love and support of the family may sometimes be the only thing that gets them through.

I’m having a good time with the Tremaines. I get to see the younger kids grow up. I get to see what it takes to reach your happy ending, what you sacrifice, what you learn. Recently I got a challenge from several readers. They wanted to know how the Tremaine saga began. How did the Tremaine parents, Brian and Brina, meet and marry? So, this month I released a novella, YOUR MAGIC TOUCH, which answers that question. Think of it as “How I Met Your Mother,” Tremaine style, a little spring break surprise. I counted back to when they must have met. Shock—it was the eighties. Leg warmers, the Police, big hair. Okay, I couldn’t give Brina big hair. Just couldn’t.

Now, I’d like to hear from you. What super power would you have if you could?

And tell me, if you lived through the eighties, what would you prefer to leave behind forever?

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Susan Squires grew up among the giant redwoods of California. She thought she was being practical by changing her major in college from theater to English literature. Immersed in a PhD. Program, she slowly realized that none of her graduating friends had work. So she dropped out after receiving a Master’s degree to take an paying job in the business world.

As an executive in a Fortune 500 company, she returned to her love of writing while continuing to hold her day-job, much to the amusement of her fellow executives. Her novel Danegeld, had already been purchased by Dorchester by the time she accepted a Golden Heart for Best Unpublished Paranormal Manuscript from Romance Writers of America. It was the first of an eclectic group of historical and contemporary paranormal stories known for their intensity. Body Electric was named by Publishers Weekly one of the ten most influential paperbacks of 2002, for blending romance and science-fiction. Book List compared No More Lies to the works of Robin Cook and Michael Crichton, but it was also a Rita finalist for Best Published Paranormal Romance by Romance Writers of America.

Susan’s Companion Series for St. Martin’s Press, continued to garner attention with admiring reviews and several visits to the New York Times Bestseller List. Publishers Weekly named One with the Shadows a Best Book of the Year, and several of the series received starred reviews. Her books have won the many regional contests for published works of paranormal romantic fiction.

Susan no longer has to use tales of romance and adventure to escape budgets and projects. She finally left her day job, and researches and writes her books at the beach in Southern California, supported by three Belgian Sheepdogs and a wonderful husband named Harry who writes occult mysteries as H.R. Knight.

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Your Magic Touch
Children of Merlin 2.5
by Susan Squires
Release: April 2013

Available for .99¢ from: Amazon / Barnes and Noble /

YOUR MAGIC TOUCH (Release Date March 21, 2013)

Click HERE for our review of YOUR MAGIC TOUCH

Your Magic Touch is a tale of “How I Met Your Mother,” Tremaine-style. The younger Tremaines are growing up and they want details about how their parents met and found their magic, details Brina and Brian Tremaine are reluctant to share. How much can they reveal to their children about the instant and potent sexual attraction of the magic in their genes, the powerful emotions of finding powers they don’t understand? And neither wants to admit what Brian did for a living before he found his destined mate, or exactly who introduced them. This novella shares both Brina’s version and Brian’s version of events, but even as each parent tries to conceal pertinent details from their children, the reader will know all.

Susan is offering a copy of HE’S A MAGIC MAN (the first book in the Children of Merlin series) to one lucky reader. US/Canada winner’s choice paper or ecopy: International ecopy only.

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4. Giveaway runs from April 13 to April 16, 2013