Darlene Marshall hails from my home state of Florida. From her bio:
Darlene Marshall is an award-winning author of historical romance featuring pirates, privateers, smugglers, and the occasional possum. She loves working at a job where business attire is shorts and a shirt festooned with pink flamingos and palm trees. Marshall lives in North Central Florida, a convenient location for putting the convertible top down and researching sites of great historical significance, which also happen to also be at the beach and serve mojitos.
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Gotta love those pink flamingos! Darlene interjects that kind of zany fun into her Regency stories, including her newest novel, CASTAWAY DREAMS:
After a lifetime in the Royal Navy, surgeon Alexander Murray knows one cannot exist without a brain, yet Daphne Farnham may be the exception. Her head contains nothing but rainbows, shoes, bonnets, pink frills and butterflies. Even her fluffy dog is useless. But the war with Napoleon is finally over and Alexander is sure he can put up with the cloth-headed Miss Farnham only for a couple of months until they reach England.
Did that naval officer have his sense of humor surgically removed? It is bad enough Alexander has no fashion sensibilities, never smiles at Daphne like other men do and doesn't adore her darling pup Pompom. He had the gall to proclaim her "useless" when everyone knows it's Daphne who's the best at picking out just the right ensemble for any social occasion. Fortunately, she has to put up with the sour Scotsman only for a couple of months until they reach England.
I posted my review of CASTAWAY DREAMS on Amazon at this link and Goodreads at this link. Darlene is giving away a print copy of CASTAWAY DREAMS to one randomly selected commenter. To enter the giveaway,
1. What is your favorite summer drink - mojitos? lemonade? margaritas?
2. This giveaway is open to US residents only ... but I will giveaway a Hawaiian beach souvenir to one international reader.
3. Comments are open through Saturday, June 9, 10 pm in Hawaii. I'll post the winner on Sunday, June 10.
Mahalo,
Kim in Hawaii
To learn more about Darlene and her books, check out her website at darlenemarshall.com.
My favorite summer drink is sweet iced tea.
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ReplyDeletegkuroda(at)hawaii.edu
mojitos all the way totally love them !
ReplyDeleteI love mango margaritas.
ReplyDeleteI tend to drink water most of the time, but when I am in the mood for something different I like to drink Pear Hard Cider. Yum!
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My favorite is lemonade.
ReplyDeleteI like sweet iced tea and lemonade.
ReplyDeletekscathy@yahoo.com
My uncle makes a mean margarita - the best ever!
ReplyDeleteMost of the time I drink water but sometimes I like to drink raspberry ice tea.
ReplyDeleteI like lemonade.
ReplyDeleteMargaritas, definitely--they're not just for summer!
ReplyDeleteLemonade, and soda... its my summer drinks:D
ReplyDeleteI used to love a Summer Breeze fixed by my neighbor.
ReplyDeleteIced tea--unsweetened but with lemon.
ReplyDeleteI love ice cold pineapple juice. Delicious!!!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite drink is Ice Tea during the summer!
ReplyDeletePlease do not enter me in the drawing, I have this ebook.
Pepsi with ice cubes for me. :) Darlene I am definitely putting your books on my TRL. I'm so glad I met you here on SOS Aloha.
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This sounds like it would be funny, to total oppisites. Loved the desriptions they had for each other.
ReplyDeleteMy favorites are Sweet Tea and lemonade or pink lemonade
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i love drink orange juice :)
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ReplyDeleteYou know how much I love meeting "new to me" authors and Darlene's book Castaway Dreams sounds like so much fun to read!
I didn't know that you'd lived in Florida before today. I was living in Jacksonville when I met my husband in 1969 when he was stationed at NAS Cecil Field! I couldn't resit a man in uniform and sailors sure are sexy! He still has that Navy trim feature even after 42 years of marriage!
For our honeymoon we went to Tampa. We didn't know it when we made the reservations but we eneded up being their for Gasparilla parade. For three days pirates "invade" the city - sailing into Hillsborough Bay by ship with a escort of hundreds of pleasure craft and vessels of all sizes. The entire city comes out to celebrate a street festival that include one of the largest art shows in the southeast, street music and entertainment, fireworks and plenty of food. We had a blast and it was a great way to start off our new life together! Needless to say when our boys were growing up there were a lot of swashbuckling going on in our family room!
Spiked lemonade in the late afternoon... after the sun is over the yardarm, so to speak...
ReplyDeleteI love Southern Sweet Tea. It is made with a sugar syrup. Sometimes I go for an Arnold Palmer (iced tea/lemonade).
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I like to make my own lemonade as a summer drink. Really easy and delicious.
ReplyDeleteIced tea is my favorite summer drink.
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