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“A Look Into The Past”
By Caryn Moya Block
It has always amazed me how reading can change your life. I am a voracious reader. I love to lose myself in a good book. But I wasn’t always fond of reading.
As a child, even before starting school, my mother would read to my brother and I. One of my favorite stories and one I still have in my library today is “Winnie the Pooh” by A.A. Milne. My mother bought it for me at Disneyland on my fourth birthday. I loved snuggling down to listen to her read to us. My father’s mother also liked to spoil me by buying beautifully illustrated fairytale books with ladies in beautiful gowns and knights in shining armor.
Once I started reading in school I struggled with Dick and Jane until my mother bought me my first “Nancy Drew Mystery” by Carolyn Keene. Then I was hooked and as the saying goes “She was off…”
I continued to read “Nancy Drew” until I had the whole series and then graduated to other mysteries like “The Hardy Boys” by Franklin W. Dixon and others. When I started Middle School I had graduated to Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie’s “Miss Marple Mysteries”. I also read all the horse books, like “My Friend Flika” by Mary O’Hara and dog books like “Big Red” and “Lassie” that I could get my hands on.
In high school I started to read fantasy and science fiction. My favorite authors were Andre Norton (Cat’s Eyes being my favorite), Anne McCaffrey and Mercedes Lackey. These books are full of psychic powers and talking animals. I also read the Merlin stories by Mary Stewart and The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (another favorite).
But wait, you might ask where are the Romance books? Well….I have to say I am a late comer to the romance genre. Not that there wasn’t a lot of romance in the books I read. They just weren’t labeled as such.
It was way past college when a friend suggested I read a medieval romance book. Knowing that I was guaranteed a happy ending, during a difficult time in my life, I decided to go for it. And I was hooked. I still read an occasional sci-fi book or mystery, but my heart now belongs to the romance genre.
If you know any of the books I’ve mention you can almost make out the road map to the author I have become. I write paranormal romance books with men who turn into wolves and have a psychic bond with their mates. Can you see the road signs? What are the books you have read that show the world the person you have become?
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Alpha's Mate
SiberianVolkov Pack #1
A trip to Moscow brings Siberian Were-wolf, Dmitry Volkov, and his pack members out of hiding. He’s looking for answers to the pack’s breeding problems. But he never expected to find them in the delectable Violet Anderson. With rogue were-wolves causing problems in the pack, can he bring a fragile human woman home as his mate?
Wild-life photographer, Violet Anderson is stopping in Moscow, before she goes on assignment to shoot the elusive Russian Gray Wolf. When she meets Dmitry at a local hotspot, the sparks fly. The animal magnetism tells her she might have just met the man of her dreams. But Violet has a couple of secrets of her own, and following a wounded animal to its lair has never been a safe thing to do.
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